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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

Adam McKay

I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Announcing Comedy Dangerous Intention Room Thinking
There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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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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Billion Fact Industry Drive Obamacare Private Republican
Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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Actor Area Counting Everyone Line Rolling Sort Talk
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don’t want handouts and don’t much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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Care People Sense Talking
You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
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Black Bubbled Cosby Country Feel Little Pocket Racism Show
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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I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.
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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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Better Broke College Degree Grant Herself Job Mom Pell School State
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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Channel Confusion Contend Country Different Junk Source Specific
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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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Blazing Ever Funniest Made Movie Saddles
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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