Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
ADAM MCKAYIn 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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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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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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It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.
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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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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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.
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I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.
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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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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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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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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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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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