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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.

Adam McKay

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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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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
Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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I’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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Cultural Elite Myself
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
The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.
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Effort Movie One Sure Thing Want Waste
It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you’re not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don’t agree with that.
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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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