The Sacha Baron Cohen Poll: Ali G vs. Borat vs. Bruno

As a stout defender of unfashionable northern towns I never find it a good look when people use places that have suffered a lot of social decay for decades as one-joke comedy setpieces. sorry wins, I am a miserable old bastard, but I can't accept this type of shit.

;-)

Telling a rodeo crowd "I hope George W. Bush drinks the blood of every Iraqi man, woman and child" was a good moment.

a true blight on culture

^^^^

was bummed that he showed up at the end of Eastbound and Down but luckily he wasn't in it enough to derail it too much

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/9/17550016/who-is-america-trailer-sacha-baron-cohen-new-show

My friend who has developed this with SBC is a Brasseye alum and has been teasing this to his mates alllll week.

that's the first tidbit to give me even the slightest bit of hope for this

Roy Moore apparently also targeted in the Sacha Baron Cohen thing, per statement... pic.twitter.com/hFY0v7e8Bb

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) July 12, 2018

ok I think this is going to be very good actually

this is going to be good

Brass eye was really good but it gave rise to so much shitty ambush comedy such as pretty much every baron Cohen has ever done

pissing off these ppl needs no defense

ambushing assholes is good

I mean shitty as in unfunny and bad not whether the targets were deserving tbc

^^^

there's no way that i won't find something palin or roy moore do on this show funny

ambush/cringe comedy can be really good (nathan for you) or really bad (a lot of cohen's stuff). cohen's done some stuff that was very funny, too, so i am hopeful that dick cheney was humiliated in a particularly clever and enlightening way

If he sticks to people in power (current or present) I'm game

I find that sort of stuff completely unwatchable now. I can't even watch Chris Morris doing it on Brass Eye.

the current people in power are historically stupid and narcissistic so I'm guessing there's no shortage of material here

I find Cohen's humor to be all over the map, the Ali G movie was stupid but the show was classic. Borat was funny but it's one of the few movies I felt pretty bad about laughing at. I also think it did not bode well for the rest of his career since he seemed to learn all the wrong lessons from its success. but I still have hope for this

Borat's lone funny scene (the nude wrestling match in the hotel w his manager) is p basic gross-out humor, well-staged and executed. His more "conceptual" stuff where he thinks he's being clever/clowning on clueless people is mostly garbage.

yeah, brasseye hasn't aged like a good Bunuel vintage has, probs overrated tbh. But this fucking twerp does my head in to start with, it's noisy talentless cunts like him that give comedy a bad name imo.

I stand by my opinions on this thread: Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

Looking forward to this. "Talentless?" Give me a break. How some of you manage to type out your grumpy-ass responses without spilling haterade all over your keyboards never ceases to amaze me.

well America is the home of talentless comedy-fail shite, so he'll be a star player in that sphere!

lol

I remember when all it took to get a laugh out of me was a sprinkling of cunts and shites.

a pride of lions
a murder of crows
a sprinkling of cunts

the colors faded into darkness
I was on my own

Huh, didn’t expect to get turned on by checking the new answers to this thread

fuck everyone this is all-time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7EgyGgVZSA

Lmaooooo

holy shit sasha baron cohen got arpaio, who was so mad he promptly called breitbart to complain. every word of this is gold pic.twitter.com/8W6RFBOERV

— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) July 13, 2018

ok even as an SBC skeptic/agnostic these butthurt quotes from everyone are objectively funny

That sneaky Borat has maliciously misled me once again. When his video camera recorded moving images with synchronized sound of me articulating in words my hateful belief system, I did not know that those images and sounds would subsequently be transmitted to other human beings

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) July 13, 2018

Here's the truth @SarahPalinUSA 🇺🇸 #MAGA #buildthewall #boycottsashacohen pic.twitter.com/iFZWrFTxWL

— Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., PhD (@BillyWRuddick) July 12, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk

armed toddler advocacy

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/15/entertainment/who-is-america-review/index.html

I'm left wondering if Chris Morris would still get away with what he was doing 20 years ago with Brass Eye. Would think that once the word that somebody was going around pulling pranks like this it would mean it was difficult to get away with. Presumably there is a whole season of this Who Is America but is it automatically going to be short lived.

Like the ability to get people to be willing victims does presumably mean a lack of awareness doesn't it?
Or does it just show how much people are willing to do in front of a camera. Would have hoped taht Bernie might be a bit more savvy than this though.

What does a consent form for one of these things look like? It's not enough of a giveaway in itself or anything?

Thought most of that was a bit heavy-handed and lazy, but the very-Chris-Morris-bit at the end where he got them to talk about Blink 182 and Wiz Khalifa was sort-of worth it.

Those clips aren't that far off from the shit they play on NRA TV.

So can you only watch this on Showtime?

Not really heavy-handed when it's about getting those folks to actually make those videos. If it was just an animated South Park episode, sure.

It's being circulated on torrent sites already.

The I-can't-believe-people-fall-for-this part for me isn't even about what he's saying, or getting other people to say; it's about the fact that the "Israeli" character (like the other characters he plays in this) looks like a dude wearing a full-head rubber mask from a Halloween shop. How do people not enter the room with this guy and say "OK, come on, who's under there?"

The whole appeal of this kind of crap is based on ppl misunderstanding how TV is made, having a fundamentally idealized/misunderstood version of how TV is made is a prerequisite for being entertained by it

It feels like another level of normalization if having reps and senators say these things is judged as entertainment.

Like omg ppl will do anything if they think they are on TV what a novel observation from 75 yrs ago

Dude we have a reality TV show star for president, horse has left the barn

"My son was in the very first program, may he rest in peace.. "

worth it just for this.

Like omg ppl will do anything if they think they are on TV what a novel observation from 75 yrs ago

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I thought most of the people he pranks would have gone through at least some forms of media awareness course as part of the training for the job.
Also that people would be growing up knowing that people are out there making shows like this.
& the rubber mask thing should be a giveaway too.

But all the people on Brass Eye who fell for a 'made-up drug' was stunning enough at the time. Also the ourouboric Elephant.

GEFAFWISP or gtf