"I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it."

Source : "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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