His act, geared to ages 3 through 10, reflects classic comic influences like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
His effort to inspire comic voices at Southampton, also involved exposing students to his unique range of comic influences as a cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.
Playing on select Saturdays through July 6, his act, geared to ages 3 through 10, reflects classic comic influences like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
As written, Stache is a compendium of comic influences: he owes his angular outline and his "face foliage" to Groucho; his bravura ignorance to Kevin Kline's character in "A Fish Called Wanda"; and his foppish swagger to Tim Curry in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
He's one of my comic influences.
It resembled "Lost" in the intricacy of its structure and "Breaking Bad" in the relentlessly unsympathetic nature of most of its key characters, and its comic influences ranged from Preston Sturges to Monty Python to '80s sitcoms.
The cast and crew talk about a comic-book influence and an Eastern influence squashed into Western philosophy.
His opening rant to camera is a comic classic, influenced, I very much suspect, by Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now: "I am a kind warrior!
In its more Hogarthian characters and emphasis on lewd sexual humor, "The School for Lies" often evokes the bawdy roistering of British comic playwrights influenced by Molière rather than the French master himself.
The comic-book influence couldn't be more felt -- Xander's last name, Cage, could be a tribute to Nicolas Cage, but it's also a nod to the Afroed Marvel Comics star Luke Cage, Hero for Hire.
