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- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing more American than movies.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
- Bummed
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
- Nov 07, 2020
Tom Brokaw was never young.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.
- Dealers
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love action movies.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
- Dry
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
- Billions Of Dollars
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- Nov 07, 2020
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
- Nov 07, 2020
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sequels are desperate.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
- Bad People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
- Slave
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not a slave to those test audiences.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
- Clicked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
- Nov 07, 2020
You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Paul Rudd.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
- Soldier
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020