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.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

When you screen it the first couple times, you're just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit. So you're doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it's working, and at that point, it's 50/50 as far as what's funny and what's working. Sometimes you'll put something in and it will just die so hard that it'll almost kill the movie.

It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.