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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.

Adam McKay

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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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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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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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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Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals – always funny.
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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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Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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Blazing Saddles’ is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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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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Everyone is sort of in their own little area counting lines and no one talks when film’s not rolling. There’s constantly actors coming to me back behind the monitor screaming at me, “Why did my line count drop?” It’s a nasty tense environment.
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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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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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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’m just a giant film fan, so I love action movies out of all kinds of movies. As a film geek, it’s amazing to be able to shoot this stuff.
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There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
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