Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
ADAM MCKAYIt 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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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 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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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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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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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