The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAYThe 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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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