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.
ADAM MCKAYDave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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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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You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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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 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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We get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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