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The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.

Adam McKay

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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Crazy Fairly Funny Ice People Serious Situation
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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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.
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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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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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I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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