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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

Adam McKay

Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Filter Final General Hollywood Money Profit
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
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Around Comedy Funniest Guy People Two World
I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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Belief Company Employee People Run Running Treat
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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Government Helping Loan Show Successfully Themselves University World
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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According Country People Poll Pretty Progressive Support
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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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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Artistic General Little Minded More People Progressive
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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Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
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
I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Celebrity Dangerous Famous Folk People Regular
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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Aggressive Movement Political Ridiculous Thinking
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
For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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