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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

Adam McKay

Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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