Adam McKay
Adam McKay
Adam McKayis an American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian, and actor. McKay served as head writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for two seasons. He directed Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers, The Other Guys, and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. McKay has a creative partnership with actor Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote all except one of these films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 April 1968
CityDenver, CO
CountryUnited States of America
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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.
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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.
You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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.
Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.
I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.