'Mork and Mindy,' Looney Tunes and Mel Brooks all helped shape the actor as a young person.
When he was 5, a Muppet-inspired Alan Tudyk burst through the swinging doors of a cowboy-themed restaurant in Texas and snarled, 'I'm Bad Bart and I'm here for some burgers!' The place went wild, he recalls. 'My mother was 'Oh, my God' embarrassed, but the whole audience' — Tudyk catches himself — 'the whole restaurant laughed. Even back then I couldn't keep it hidden; I was trying to make people laugh.
'That's where I learned the mechanics of humor, the setup of jokes, the voices and the comedy,' he says. 'For me, it all kind of came together at once.' Encouraged by his high school teacher to forgo a career in hotel management and pursue acting, Tudyk attended Juilliard. There, he lost his Texas twang and learned to speak in the posh mid-Atlantic manner. But Tudyk says something was missing from the school's famously rigorous curriculum: comedy.
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