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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.

Adam McKay

Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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Aiming Break Comedy Country Damage Dangerous Ideology People Possession
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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“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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Confidently Funnier Nothing Wrong Thing
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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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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