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There’s a lot of things you can’t control. But you can always be a pro.

Adam McKay

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.
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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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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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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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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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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.
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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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