The Gong Show: The Unknown Comic

Aired December 1977 / NBC Daytime

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[netsurferx1]

In case you were wondering, what he said (that got censored) was: "The pistons wouldn't piss!"

[RAPUCHITO]

Ah, the '70. Drop F-bombs, coked out, drink & smoke on the air. The jokes & gags might be lame looking at it today but today you can't do half of what they did back then. Good times. So "politically incorrect" & love it. In reality, this "new reality" on TV is lame. Bring back the Gong Show!!!

[Swinefeld]

What an awesome decade.

[Rich Zoe]

PEOPLE THIS STUFF IS PRICELESS...AHHH THE 1970`s MEMORIES,,

[dasnake74]

Did he say "Here, folks, here to (BUCK?) up those lonely little hours at home with those rotten little kids..."?

Like the song Signs possibly? Chucky couldn't get away with F-Bombs if they censor the Piston joke by the Prince of Puns. O_ó

[MPSecare]

is he covered in cocaine o,O?

[scratchking1]

Always heard it was Howie Mandell behind that bag, including his famous potie trainning joke, immitating a baby...

[Jeff Wilson]

The edited part was....

THE PISTONS WOULDN'T PISS...which you can't say "piss" on television.

[hbiblekjv]

Copy and Take "OUT" ALL THE "SPACES" IN-BETWEEN THE WORDS AND SYMBOLS TO "SEE" WHO IS BEHIND THE "BAG",,

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[hbiblekjv]

Although he had a lot of comedy work under his belt before then (i.e. Laugh-In, Sonny And Cher), Murray Langston's career hit a critical mass when he appeared on the Gong Show. He needed the money and didn't want his friends to know, so he put a bag over his head, became "The Unknown Comic" and it took off resulting in over 150 subsequent appearances on the show. He is out of retirement appearing in the George Clooney flick "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and "Levity" with Billy Bob Thornton.

[rps57x]

Check out the movie Night Patrol to find out why he's the 'Unknown Comic'

[Alan Rossi]

The unknown comic was a Canadian comic who appeared on the Sonny and Cher show and the Hudson Brothers Show, Murray Langston I believe was his name.