My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
From Adam McKay
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.
Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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.
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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.
Tom Brokaw was never young.
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.
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