White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
ADAM MCKAYEvery time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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The 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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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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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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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