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I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

— Drake Bell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

— Tim Heidecker

I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.

— Joshua Malina

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

— Chevy Chase

I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid.

— Michael Feldman

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

— Harland Williams

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

— Navid Negahban

We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.

— Kel Mitchell

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

— Thomas Middleditch

✗Opposing Perspectives

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

— Micky Dolenz

I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

— Larry the Cable Guy