It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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I’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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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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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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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers.
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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 grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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