Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
ADAM MCKAYI 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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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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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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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’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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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