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

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

― Οὖτις, Sunday, July 15, 2018 10:25 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

Brass eye is so good, mandatory for anyone who wants to talk about sbc whether hater or booster

The prank side of things is actually quite a small part of the programme but like if you’re gonna be a bofa appreciator this is god level

That Matt Gaetz guy looks like he's wearing a mask, too. And Joe Wilson slurs his interview.

Pills 'n' soap.

at age 4 a child processes images 80% faster than an adult, meaning essentially, like owls, they can see in slow motion

I find that hard to believe given the increase in myelination of the brain through adolescence.

don't know if that was ironic, I was quoting from Larry Pratt (Gun Owners of America) in one of the SBC interviews

but genuinely interested to see someone else here who has an interest in neuroscience

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.

― Stevolende

chris morris isn't _interested_ in doing what he was doing 20 years ago with brass eye and appears to have some certain degree of self-awareness which has kept him from just remaking old black mirror episodes unto eschaton.

It was more taht I would have assumed that once a few people in the media eye were caught out the same prankster wouldn't be able to continue. Hoping that levels of gullibility weren't that high.
BUt always funny to see people like Noel Edmonds make themselves look like idiots especially when the script in front of them or owrds they've been given at least presumably give the game away. I keep thinking about that 'it's a made up drug' which I would think would parse as this is fictional i.e. made up and presumably was read as it was created, if there was anything semantic involved.
But once it got on TV I would have thought the show wouldn't be able to keep catching people out indefinitely.
Is that me having more faith in human nature than is deserved.

Is that me having more faith in human nature than is deserved.

― Stevolende

yes

The part of the episode where he plays the ex-mossad agent is 100% worth watching and gold from start to finish. The other ones aren't nearly as strong, unfortunately

This was funny but felt like rubbing salt in the wound to me, I mean the US is ducked as is. Laughed but felt sad as well

that was some of the funniest shit I've seen in a long time, absolutely incredible what these people go along with

I'll be curious enough to stay apprised of who gets clowned on, but I don't think I have any desire to cringe through another round of SBC.

Sacha Baron Cohen pls trick my dad into saying he’s proud of me

— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) July 14, 2018

Οὖτις kinda otm here

i liked Ali G and Borat and all that about 10 years ago. but even then the schtick was getting tired. too bad he already made The Dictator

for me im not really hankering for yet another place to promote/own horrible people & be cynical about politics. but for those reasons this will probably be a huge hit.

Is him looking like Freddie Mercury-with-a-shaved-head in the gun clips just a coincidence or a snook being openly cocked at Queen? He looks way more like Freddie than the fella that's actually now in the biopic.

He was actually attached to the biopic for a while iirc

Yeah that's what i mean..it ended badly.

Yes, he died of an AIDS related illness before he could join the fight against badger culling.

i like joe walsh justifying everything with "they flew me out and gave me an award"

my unnecessary take is that this isn't good, based on the clips. the small push that it takes to get someone to agree with opinions close enough to ones they've voiced support for in the past on cable news (+ point out that they don't know wiz khalifa and are dumb enough to record drops for a guy with a prosthetic) or try to out openly evil public and semi-public figures in their 70s and 80s as monsters isn't worth the trouble or funny because you could get a 24 year old defend western civilization youtuber to go in and elicit the same responses, spoken rationally into a galaxy s9 camera, and without some goofy character.

but it's hilarious!

Watched the first Sanders segment and don't know if I'll bother continuing. There's simply no joke in it

I think it improves but I can't remember one section and the middle class dinner isn't overly brilliant just a bit better than the bernie bit. Middle class dinner seems to be self consciously gross.

xp
also this is getting close to a handwaving liberal twitter take but, honestly, the fact that this—it's coming out after being hit over and over again with scenes of gun violence where i can't help but imagine children getting shot in the head and replaying scenes of violence in a country intractably fucked up about gun violence, when i can open youtube and they make sure i get to see steven crowder debunking gun myths etc. so and the fact that it goes after the softest targets (right wing gun nuts that have made a living saying offensive shit), seems out of touch with the culture when in the past few years shit is even more surreal and terrifying than lol a gun for babies in a teddy bear, and really isn't packed with jokes and never gets very funny, it's kinda unpleasant.

imho tricking bob barr into eating breast milk cheese is as political as sacha baron cohen.

"should get" are the two words to end that sentence.

really isn't packed with jokes and never gets very funny, it's kinda unpleasant

Satire's not actually supposed to be "funny," you know.

This sounds as insufferable as expected, it sounds like he's done a Shatner's Bassoon ripoff as well. Fuck this tool!

satire huh so that's what this is.

mods can you delete my last three posts i clearly missed the point

Sacha Baron Cohen's not actually supposed to be "funny," you know.