ADAM MCKAY

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

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?

'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.

The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

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.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

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?

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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.

I love Paul Rudd.

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.

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.

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

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.

There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.

I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.