"I originally called him The Boy With Tape on His Face, but I found it got lost in translation in places like South Korea, and I was thinking about rebranding when I got to America's Got Talent," Wills says. The character became a hit at comedy clubs and festivals throughout the United Kingdom and in different parts of the globe. It was only meant to be a five-minute show." – Sam Wills tweet this The next night, The Boy With Tape on His Face was born, a name Willis created with inspiration from Tim Burton's children's poem The Boy With Nails in His Eyes. It's very much a hybrid of things and with the Tape Face show, it was never meant to be taken seriously. "I still like to think of myself as a street performer. "Another comedian came up to me and said, 'The only way you can do a silent character is if you gaffer-tape your mouth shut,'" Wills says. The results were "very crude and a silly, basic kind of humor," he says. One night, he did a set without speaking. Wills' street performances earned him some awards and wide acclaim, but he kept trying to challenge himself to bolder ideas. It was only meant to be a five-minute show." "It's very much a hybrid of things, and with the Tape Face show, it was never meant to be taken seriously. "I still like to think of myself as a street performer," Wills says. Being a street performer requires wit and jokes, so he also worked at stand-up. Wills started his act as a street performer, doing stunts - like contorting his entire body through the frame of a tennis racket and blowing up rubber gloves wrapped around his head - for crowds and festivals and busking for tips with a loud, punk, Jackass-esque edge. He studied circus arts at a circus school in his hometown, where he majored in juggling and minored in acrobatics and mime. The Christchurch, New Zealand, native came to his silent standup comedy art from the circus world. The man known as Tape Face, who found an audience in America as one of the finalists on NBC's America's Got Talent, is touring the states with his delightfully bizarre standup act and stopping Friday at the House of Blues in Dallas. "I look at something and say, 'Can it be a face? Can it dance?' It's just taking those ideas and seeing if I can make it funny." "It's just genuinely playing," Wills says. A couple of hobby horses, some toilet paper, a plunger and a toilet seat transform into a white-knuckle horse race. Some balloons and staple guns become the setting for a Wild West showdown between two rival gunslingers.
When Wills musses up his hair, slaps on a liberal amount of black eye-liner and puts a piece of tape across his mouth, he transforms the stage into a giant play space for adults where his childish mind transforms ordinary objects into wild pieces of artistic comedy and hilarious toys and games.Ī pair of oven gloves turns into a singing duet.
"The less you know, the more you'll enjoy it," Wills says. Courtesy Gag Reflex Management It's difficult to describe a comedy act like Tape Face, but comedian Sam Wills, the real name of the man behind the strip of electrical tape, says that going into one of his shows cold enhances the bewilderment and surprise he wants his audience to feel.
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