As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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.
More Adam McKay Quotes
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
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