User:KRBE Houston

In 1978, at the Comedy Annex on Shepard Street, we encountered a young man at an open mic night. Mark Williams walked onto the stage with a leather bound collegiate dictionary under his arm and walked up to the microphone. Dressed in a white linen suit with a white shirt and a black string tie, looking like a young Colonel Sanders, he says,"Good evening, my name is Deuteronomy J Divine, and I sell tickets on the escalator to Heaven." The audience seemed to chuckle uncomfortably, not knowing whether to take him seriously. He opened his dictionary and began to read, it was a scripture reading from the Bible. It sounded legitimate as if I were sitting in church. But,