Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
ADAM MCKAYOld man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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 got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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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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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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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