As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
ADAM MCKAYBlazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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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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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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.
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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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