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.
ADAM MCKAYAnyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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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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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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