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 MCKAYAnyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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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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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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We’re always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
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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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It’s crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film
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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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Old man with an old phone. That’s never not funny.
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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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When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.
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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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