There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
ADAM MCKAYI 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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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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 crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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