My 40 top influences.

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1. Jonathan Winters
2. Jack Benny
3. Groucho Marx
4. Dashell Hammett
5. Raymond Chandler
6. Kenneth Robeson
7. Richard Pryor
8. George Carlin
9. John Steinbeck
10. John Ford
11. John Sturges
12. J.F.K.
13. F.D.R.
14. Harry Truman
15. Woody Allen
16. Fritz Lang
17. Terrence Fisher
18. Red Skelton
19. Arte Johnson
20. Gardner Fox
21. WIll Eisner
22. Walter Gibson
23. Sergio Leoni
25. Alexander Dumas
26. Victor Hugo
27. Ray Harryhausen
28. Clarence Darrow
29. Abraham Lincoln
30. The Beatles
31. Louis Armstrong
32. Jimmy Carter
33. Isaac Asimov
34. Phil Ochs
35. Pete Seeger
36. Mark Twain
37. Richard Matheson
38. Raphel Sabatini
39. William Shakespeare
40. Steve Allen