Bill Hader

His "Saturday Night Live" (1975) audition was him performing impressions of Al Pacino, James Mason, Tony Blair, and Peter Falk as Vinnie Vedecci, his Italian talk-show host character.

Monty Python, This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and early 'Woody Allen (I)' and Mel Brooks movies are his biggest comedic influences [Empire Online April 2008].

Is a producer on the 13th season of "South Park" (1997).

Has been in six films that have grossed over 100 million dollars (Knocked Up (2007), Superbad (2007), Tropic Thunder (2008), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009).