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

Adam McKay

I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.
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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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Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.
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Always Blanket Cynicism Excited Government Toward
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
There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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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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Crazy Fairly Funny Ice People Serious Situation
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.
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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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I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps.
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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 for movies, what’s great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.
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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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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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