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.
ADAM MCKAYCelebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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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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I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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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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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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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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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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