Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
ADAM MCKAYThere’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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