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.
ADAM MCKAYHollywood 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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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