Actually my kids are fans of or have at least seen the work of most of these guys. I'm giving them a classical education.
At first I thought this might be a pointless post for Drawger but then I realized that this era of film comedy, among a lot of other stuff, has been a huge influence on my work so maybe it's not such a pointless post after all. When I was a kid I read this quote from John Lennon referring to The Beatles and it's stuck with me ever since, "you see we're influenced by whatever's going."