Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
ADAM MCKAYI’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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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 get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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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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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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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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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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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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