Got his entire shtick from comedienne, Alice Ghostley

I just saw an old Johnny Carson interview where he claimed he had no idea where his "originality" came from. That is not true. His facial expressions, mannerisms and sniveling way of speaking was basically him doing Alice Ghostley, a female comic actress he had worked with starting out: https://thelifeandtimesofhollywood.com/who-copied-who-paul-lynde-and-alice-ghostley/