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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

Adam McKay

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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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