The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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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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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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