The Girls crossover we've all been waiting for!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I really used to love the Ali G show and I had kind of high hopes for him at one point. Career has been a downward since then.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
guy is just generally terrible imo. if there was a stereotype about asian people being antisemitic he'd be wearing yellow makeup and yelling "CHING CHONG ME SO HORNY ME HATE JEWS" in his next movie.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
downward slope.
yet curiously he has gotten much richer
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
The Borat commercials made it look pretty bad too though. It's probably at least way better than Ali G Indahouse
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
Is he still doing a Freddie Mercury biopic?
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
that's allegedly coming together, yes
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
most of it will take place in Zanzibar and will be full of hilaaaarious accents, i'm sure
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
whatever, I'm betting this actually turns out to be pretty funny, though I'm sure everyone else here is likely going to rain smdhs and nagls upon it
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Really funny movies sometimes have awful commercials.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 May 2012 07:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/16/sacha_baron_cohens_dark_political_farce/
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Thursday, 17 May 2012 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh yeah watched The Dictator a few weeks ago, it was really bad. There were a few parts in it that i thought offered actually good political satire. Mainly the bit where they are on the helicopter excitedly talking about touring NYC and the frightened tourists in front of them only hear frightening terrorist buzzwords. And the speech at the very end about how the US more or less embraces the same horrible practices we fear in dictator-run countries. But really this was a few good political satire skits wrapped around a really stupid plot connecting a bunch of gross-out setpieces. It feels like the kind of movie a high schooler would make if you gave him a lot of money and an MTV production crew at his disposal.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 22 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, pretty terrible. The only bit I can remember really making me laugh was the conversation about cartoon bombs. His accent was really weird, sounded almost Irish at times.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmgVDLjSk-s
Looks, uh, unlikely to be good.
Was reminiscing with H about some of the better Ali G/Borat/Bruno bits and a few still crack me up to think about, e.g. Bruno meeting with the gay conversion priest, Borat campaigning door to door in a US local election, Borat with the dating coach, Ali G interviewing Chomsky. Sort of sad just how huge the gulf is between his best and worst stuff and just how voluminous his worst work is.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 12 December 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
the leaked SONY emails revealed some fascinating stuff about this
http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/Sacha-Baron-Cohen-s-film-Grimsby-characters-hide/story-26353224-detail/story.html
― piscesx, Saturday, 12 December 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
wish he'd managed to do the freddy mercury film, he would have been really good
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 12 December 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
read the director's name as Ivan Loadsa
SBC is a fucking wretch obv
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Saturday, 12 December 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
"The comedy has already proven controversial after pictures taken on the set depicted the town as largely populated by 20 stone women and "tattooed fatties"
Christ are they still throwing money at this fucking clown?
― xelab, Saturday, 12 December 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
he's several degrees of magnitude worse than gervais, maybe
a true blight on culture
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Saturday, 12 December 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
― Über, Über mensch (wins), Saturday, 12 December 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
i'm not hating to be fashionable. i sat through the borat movie and it was a very unhappy time in my life
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Saturday, 12 December 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Saturday, 12 December 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
;-)
― Über, Über mensch (wins), Saturday, 12 December 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
Telling a rodeo crowd "I hope George W. Bush drinks the blood of every Iraqi man, woman and child" was a good moment.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 14 December 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
^^^^
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 December 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/9/17550016/who-is-america-trailer-sacha-baron-cohen-new-show
― DJI, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 07:38 (six years ago) link
My friend who has developed this with SBC is a Brasseye alum and has been teasing this to his mates alllll week.
― suzy, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 07:42 (six years ago) link
that's the first tidbit to give me even the slightest bit of hope for this
― Simon H., Tuesday, 10 July 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
this is going to be good
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
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
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
pissing off these ppl needs no defense
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
ambushing assholes is good
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
I mean shitty as in unfunny and bad not whether the targets were deserving tbc
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
^^^
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
there's no way that i won't find something palin or roy moore do on this show funny
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
If he sticks to people in power (current or present) I'm game
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
I find that sort of stuff completely unwatchable now. I can't even watch Chris Morris doing it on Brass Eye.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
I stand by my opinions on this thread: Larry Charles to direct Borat movie
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― DJI, Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
well America is the home of talentless comedy-fail shite, so he'll be a star player in that sphere!
― calzino, Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
lol
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
I remember when all it took to get a laugh out of me was a sprinkling of cunts and shites.
― DJI, Thursday, 12 July 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
a pride of lionsa murder of crowsa sprinkling of cunts
― Eliza D., Thursday, 12 July 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
the colors faded into darknessI was on my own
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 July 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
I all states are hella racist to varying degrees but like there's "Public Enemy specifically wrote a song about how racist your state is" racist
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link
There are definitely racists in arizona but living in california i met a lot of mexicans who moved/retired in arizona and love itAlso arizona is heavily advertised as a retirement spot in japan, so there are more and more asians there
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:37 (six years ago) link
Well the mayor's response is:
The comments in the show, fairly or unfairly, show that we still have more work to do. So here are additional steps we are going to be taking as ours is a community like too many others in America that still encounter such issues.
Love how politicians are always ready to throw the whole country under the bus when they have pointed fingers at them for racism.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
I googled the place as well and it has not only a mosque alreaddy but one quite large and obvious ffs. People are stupid.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 28 July 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link
Delicious Donut, you have to understand that uh, you have to follow the Constitution and the law and allow people to have guns.
― No organ. (crüt), Saturday, 11 August 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
on war footing with tech companies
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
borat sucks
― treeship., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
the naked hotel fight in Borat is the hardest and longest I have ever laughed in a movie. well, either that or PSH in Along Came Polly coining "sharted." god, my mom and I were laughing at both for like 20 minutes.like sands through the hourglass...
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 05:19 (four years ago) link
I have to agree about that Borat fight scene. I saw it in a theater, and I was in tears at the end of that scene.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ryIztqI5g
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 June 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
SBC oughta be careful, his entire project is in danger of cultural redaction
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
he will be fine
― flappy bird, Sunday, 28 June 2020 05:01 (four years ago) link
no doubts there
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 05:23 (four years ago) link
"SBC the human who presumably needs sustenance to keep living" and "SBC's satirical project" are v different things
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
Is there another Borat thread? the new movie is masterful.
That clip up above (which of course is in the film) feels like a lifetime ago. Also I've had "shoot him up with the wuhan flu' in my head all morning.
― akm, Saturday, 24 October 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Larry Charles to direct Borat movie
― pomenitul, Saturday, 24 October 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Kinda want this to happen now:
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/sacha-baron-cohen-rudy-giuliani-contest-golden-globes-borat-loses-1234614399/
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link