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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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 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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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