Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
ADAM MCKAYMy 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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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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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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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As for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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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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For my money, I don’t think there’s been a better comedy than ‘Kung Fu Hustle’ in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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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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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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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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