Meet 'the weird cousin of comedy': 1930s vaudevillian Lucy Darling

Meet 'the weird cousin of comedy': 1930s vaudevillian Lucy Darling

HONOLULU (KHON2) -- If you ask most modern comedians who their comic inspirations are, you might hear some familiar names like Robin Williams, Chris Rock or Wanda Sykes. But for Carisa Hendrix, a Canadian comedian soon making her way to Oʻahu, her inspirations are a bit out of left field for those not particularly versed on the history of comedy and the ladies that helped build the genre. Stars from the 1930s like Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mae West and Dor…