Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
ADAM MCKAYIn general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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