Adam McKay

Adam McKay

17-Apr-1968


United States


Writer

Adam McKay is an American film and television writer, director and producer. McKay has worked as the lead author of the comedy series NBC sketch comedy Saturday Night Live for two seasons.

QUOTES BY Adam McKay


There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

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

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

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.

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