Schell demonstrated a comic barrage of beatnik jive talk. Benzedrine was extensively referenced in Beatnik culture and writings. This mixed beatnik poetry with exotica arrangements. During their tenure at KDAY, they honed their material in beatnik coffeehouses at night. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth used fiberglass to build his Beatnik Bandit in 1960. Gortner spent the remainder of his teenage years as an itinerant beatnik. In the early 1950s, Soho became the centre of the beatnik culture in London. I said to Todd, 'Ideally, make it like a Beatnik existential spy movie soundtrack. Reportedly, some of his comedic material was written for him by Hollywood "beatnik" Mel Welles. He later joined Sturmer in the San Francisco band Beatnik Beatch. Allen admitted that he was scorned by the other protesters for being a beatnik. The DC Comics character Jonny Double is also portrayed as a beatnik. Jacobson also said he liked the appearance of Flanders's "beatnik father". Wittman then goes to a party mainly attended by followers of the Beatnik movement. On New Year's Eve, Amy finds Norville drunk at a beatnik bar.