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

Adam McKay

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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Channel Confusion Contend Country Different Junk Source Specific
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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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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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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