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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

Adam McKay

I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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 only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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