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Most of what’s tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience’s expectation.

Adam McKay

Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.
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Audience Country Economics Hollywood Issue Social
Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Dave Favorite People Favorite Performance
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’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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Backbone Central Circle Everything Idea
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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Art Culture Job Jump Little Push Realize Thinking
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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I always give myself a little part in every movie.
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Every Giving Little Movie Part
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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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
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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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I don’t think there’s ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that’s terrible and a lie.
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Artistic Heart History Lying Message Moment Played Thinking Well
“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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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we’d been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don’t think people really saw this guy for what he was.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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