Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
ADAM MCKAY
Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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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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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate.
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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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“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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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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