Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
ADAM MCKAYThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people’s minds.
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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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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 crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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