There’s a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it’s written, and there really is order.
ADAM PALLYAnytime I audition for something, it’s always a question of whether or not the people I’m auditioning for understand I’m an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who’s going to do what’s written.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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There was a reason in the ’50s when communism was bubbling that there were a million zombie movies. Because that is the direct allocation.
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I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.
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I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.
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That’s what I think is important to remember now and when you hear that slogan, “Make America great again.”
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Anytime I audition for something, it’s always a question of whether or not the people I’m auditioning for understand I’m an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who’s going to do what’s written.
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I don’t think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn’t an actor who can just do one thing.
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It’s a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.
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Well, you can’t improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.
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You kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.
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Eventually I got the call for ‘Iron Man,’ and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room
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I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I think it’s pretty classic if you look at the way entertainment reflects the country’s status.
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” What do you mean? What you mean is that they want to look back in history. And so I think it’s only natural for entertainment to reflect that.
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