In Popular Culture
The Scottish comedian Gregor Fisher lampooned the comb over style with his character The Baldy Man, which featured in a television advertisement before graduating to its own TV show.
Stand-up comedian Heywood Banks sometimes sports a comb over despite having a full head of hair, stating "I'm not going bald, but I like the look!"
On an episode of Room 101, newsreader Lorraine Kelly called comb overs "Pedal Bin Hair".
One of the villains from Cars 2, Professor Zündapp, has a broken roof rack that resembles a comb over.
American film and TV actor Bill Murray wore a combover as "Ernie McCracken" in the film Kingpin. Also in Kingpin, but to a lesser extent, Woody Harrelson's character "Roy Munsen" also had a combover.
In Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, there is a teacher by the name Mr. Comb Over. Instead of regular hair, he uses his beard to cover his scalp.
Read more about this topic: Comb Over
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“The best of us would rather be popular than right.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and culture of their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)