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.
ADAM MCKAYI would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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