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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.

Adam McKay

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
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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Artistic Heart History Lying Message Moment Played Thinking Well
I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
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Darker Explore Mirror People Punch Shelve
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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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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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.
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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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Funding Invasion Land Really Stopping Way
Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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Actor Area Counting Everyone Line Rolling Sort Talk
In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Animal Behaving Funny Rarely Talking
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 you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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