He maintains that his early stand-up style was heavily influenced by watching clips of Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, and Louis CK.

“So I see Eddie Murphy. It says Eddie Murphy. I want Beverly Hills Cop. And it says it's 7 megabytes. And in my head like, oh, what a deal. I don't even think this is going to be on So it was an audio file of I've done that too, yeah. You just get the audio file. Okay. I remember being like cuz you d”