The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAYCan anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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 would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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“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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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