Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
ADAM MCKAYI would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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