PHIL WANG

The up-and-coming sTand-up comic reveals his genre faves

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY TV

I love the original Twilight Zone – I think that’s the best sci-fi there is. I got into it because of all the references that have been made about it, like in The Simpsons. there’s an episode which parodies “time enough At Last” where a bookworm survives a nuclear holocaust and is the only man left on earth. then he finds a library full of all the books he’s always wanted to read, and there’s this moment where he picks up the first book and he drops his glasses, which shatter, and he can’t read any of the books. I love that. I also really like Black Mirror. I think both shows have the same mission statement.

FAVOURITE SF/ FANTASY COMICS

My main vice is comic books. I’ve been a Batman guy since I was a child. I don’t really like the ’70s stuff, but I’ll take the Adam West show and I love the Nolan movies. there’s a really interesting theory by grant Morrison that every iteration of Batman is actually part of the same timeline, and he actually has been all of the different types of Batman, which I find really interesting. I don’t even mind Ben Affleck from the recent films – I thought he was a very good Batman.

FAVOURITE SF/FANTASY VIDEOGAMES

Sometimes I wonder how many hours of my life I’ve lost to virtual worlds. I really love Mass Effect, though I ended up playing the third game with half the missions I could have, because I didn’t realise you could save all those people, and I ended up killing them. I thought it was this story where they all died in really unsatisfying ways!

Phil Wang’s Kinabalu show is currently touring the UK. www.philwang.co.uk.