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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.

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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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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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
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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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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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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Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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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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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school.
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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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I think what’s dangerous [about comedy] is that you’re coming into the room announcing your intentions.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’
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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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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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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 could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it’s so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.
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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.
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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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All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.
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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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I’ve gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
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