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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

Adam McKay

Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Able Care Fail Failing Having Improv
If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Else Fail Failing Pro
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Confidently Funnier Nothing Wrong Thing
Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Blazing Ever Funniest Made Movie Saddles
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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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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 has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

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