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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

Adam McKay

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
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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Aiming Break Comedy Country Damage Dangerous Ideology People Possession
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
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Director Do Really Tone
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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Black Bubbled Cosby Country Feel Little Pocket Racism Show
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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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Country Culture Disengaged Government People Process Thinking
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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Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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Funny Man never Old Phone
The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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Easiest Ice Serious Situation Break Time Way
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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Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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Aspect Directing Mind People Place
There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Improv Less People Something Think Thinking Truth Way
If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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Else Fail Failing Pro

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