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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.

Adam McKay

There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Federal Joke More Nothing People Reserve
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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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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Aiming Break Comedy Country Damage Dangerous Ideology People Possession
I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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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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Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
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This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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