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Adam McKay
American
Writer
Born:
Apr 17
,
1968
Comedy
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
Adam McKay
Word
Changed
State
Corporation
Corporations
Defined
Definition
Mussolini
Would
Would-Be
Webster
More
Mention
He
Bought
Exclude
Merging
Until
Also
Said
Up
Accurate
Any
Created
Fascism
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
Adam McKay
Good
Skin
Thinking
Way
Backward
Someone
Color
Come
Like
Judging
Anything
Skin Color
Based
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
Adam McKay
Wrong Thing
Nothing
Wrong
Doing
Than
Confidently
Thing
Funnier
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.
Adam McKay
Mom
You
Age
People
Way
Only
Ultimately
Any
Hanging
Famous
Famous People
Your
Who
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
Adam McKay
You
Care
Able
Fail
Improv
Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
Adam McKay
Government
Entitlement
Corporations
Ways
Wealthy
Finding
Since
New
New Deal
Non-Stop
Deal
Been
Families
Get
New Ways
Tax
Tax Breaks
Breaks
Deregulation
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
Adam McKay
Animal
Nothing
Wild
Wild Animal
Chaos
Berserk
More
Than
Middle
Heightens
Right
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
Adam McKay
Freedom
Creative
Carrot
Huge
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.
Adam McKay
Funny
News
Confusion
Hilarious
Channels
See
Contend
Sources
Get
American
Junk
Just
Different
Creates
Specific
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.
Adam McKay
Creative
World
Think
Wayne
Kind
Some
Ideas
Liked
Does
Actually
Things
If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
Adam McKay
You
Veteran
Country
Out
Would
Someone
Supporting
Robbed
House
Course
Were
His
Selling
Forgive
Forgiving
McCain
Them
Bush
Agenda
Then
Your
Busted
Found
Why
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
Adam McKay
People
Care
Mouth
Sense
Side
Out
Talking
Got
Where
Want
Place
Much
Alabama
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay
World
Comedy
Guys
Knows
Around
Anyone
Chris
Two
Funniest
There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
Adam McKay
Me
World
Nothing
Characters
More
New
Than
New World
Fun
If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
Adam McKay
You
Comedies
Making
Rhythm
Them
Fun
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
Adam McKay
Amazing
Complex
Ability
Take
Concepts
Michael
Formulas
Them
Turn
Lewis
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
Adam McKay
World
Law
Better
Year
Slightly
Laugh
Would
Tracks
Get
Should
Whole
Ever
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay
School
Comedy
High
High School
Huge
Huge Fan
Fan
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
Adam McKay
Funny
Time
Bone
One Time
Opened
Rock
Chris
Chris Rock
Actually
There's nothing more American than movies.
Adam McKay
Nothing
More
Than
American
Movies
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.
Adam McKay
Change
Behavior
Humor
Will
Think
Immature
Fade
Still
Replacement
Mature
Maybe
Form
Figures
Based
Guarantee
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.
Adam McKay
You
Ate
Like
Gotten
Fantastic
Thing
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
Adam McKay
Me
Laugh
Guy
Like
Makes
Lot
Matt
Really
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.
Adam McKay
Funny
You
People
Way
Though
Parody
Spoof
Call
Western
May
Even
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.
Adam McKay
You
First
Out
Trick
See
Beat
First One
Because
Always
How
How Much
Go
Repeat
Bummed
Get
Much
Sequel
Sequels
Tom Brokaw was never young.
Adam McKay
Young
Never
Tom
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