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You can make fun of everything.
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We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.
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I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
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Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
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The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.
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There are good characters and bad characters.
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That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.
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I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.
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I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.
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At this point, we've ripped on everyone.
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Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?
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I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.
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With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
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I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.
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And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
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There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
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I'm concerned about people being happy.
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We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.
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It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'
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I just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.
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So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'
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It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.
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We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.
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Sometimes I wish I could get fired.
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