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We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.

Adam McKay

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
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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Article Click First Interview Movie Part People Walt Whitman
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He’s not only a great director, but he’s also a great writer.
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Directors Favorite Filmmaker People Probably
White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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Billion Bored Collar Dollar Marked White
All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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All Having Powerful Vote
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.
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Hour Idea Insane News Pretty Twenty Four
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Around Comedy Funniest Guy People Two World
In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.
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Company Country Invested Manufacturing Open Wages
“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
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.
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Aggressive Movement Political Ridiculous Thinking
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
In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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Artistic General Little Minded More People Progressive
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 went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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Government Helping Loan Show Successfully Themselves University World
I’m not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
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Allowed Banking Essential Finance Modern Society
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It’s not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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Funding Invasion Land Really Stopping Way

We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it’s just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.

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