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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I love Obama. He’s my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.
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It was videotaped, and I’m sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.
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I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.
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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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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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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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I moved around a lot as a kid, and when you’re always entering new places at that age,
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So for the last two years we’ve been hearing, “Make America great again.” People go, “Well, America was never great.
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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 think it’s pretty classic if you look at the way entertainment reflects the country’s status.
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For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I’m only going to have to run.
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At around 19 I realized that I really didn’t have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
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I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.
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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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