Regarding Christian’s Comedy Influences

I feel like there are a fairly standard set of comedy obssession mile markers in a young suburban man’s life.  Despite being a young, comedy-obessessed suburban man, these seem to have eluded Christian.

That first show you became annoyingly fixated on, and quote to death, and always want to hang around the TV if it’s on even though you’ve seen twenty times, and assume everyone knows what you’re talking about when you rattle off some obscure quote from it in the middle of a conversation — for most people that was The Simpsons.  For Christian, it was Seinfeld.

Your first surreal foreign sketch show obsession.  The one that made you believe sketch comedy was a sublime genre, despite there being so many examples of it falling flat, or just not working.  Hell, they even have a fantastic movie full of original ideas and quotable lines.  In his world, it’s not Monty Python.  It’s The Kids in the Hall.

I bet you had a collection of The Far Side or Calvin and Hobbes.  Christian was curled up next to a Dilbert book.

-Hunter (1/2 of DimeStore)