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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.

Adam McKay

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 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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Country Culture Disengaged Government People Process Thinking
This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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Corporation Definition Exclude Mention Webster
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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Audience Comedy Expectation Most Perception
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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Break Country Ideology Mes Pointing Really Stuff
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it’s there and to push it just a little bit faster.
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Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
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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Thinking Tv Shows Years
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Always Blanket Cynicism Excited Government Toward
Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Celebrity Dangerous Famous Folk People Regular
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Able Care Fail Failing Having Improv
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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Corporation Country Crush Government Lobbyist Media Purchase Running
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
“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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Government Military Scary
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
I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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Gotten Guy Hug Laugh Laughing Movie
Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine.
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Bigs Hollywood Imagine

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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