I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
ADAM MCKAYThe idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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