Allen Quote by Sam Seder

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.

— David Steinberg

My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people…

— Rich Brian

I have too many influences to name. I like a wide variety of stuff, which I think has been helpful. I liked every comedian…

— John Mulaney

Those are my influences, really. Old movies. A lot of people ask who your comedic influences growing up were, but I don't think that…

— Cole Escola

People ask me about my influences and I say all the comedians in the 1970s and Dave Allen was a massive influence and a…

— Sean Lock

Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are my comedic influences. I like a lot of dudes, too, like Bill Murray and Will Ferrell.

— Kaitlin Olson

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

— Cameron Esposito

Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of…

— J. Robert Spencer

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

— Bob Newhart

I really like Woody Allen, I really like John Cassavetes, and I really like movies that are super-naturalistic. I studied film studies in college,…

— Sophia Takal

Who are my influences? Everybody.

— Cameron Esposito

The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw