The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.
ADAM MCKAYWe get so much information during the day that doesn’t really tell us anything.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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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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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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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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There are so many shoot-’em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.
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“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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It’s one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.
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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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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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Sometimes you’ll put something in and it will just die so hard that it’ll almost kill the movie.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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