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.
ADAM MCKAYBlazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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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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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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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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