Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

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Speaking on the telephone, Joseph, with Mariam chatting in the background, says they saw the film and thought it "was not anti-Semitic at all. It was outstanding. I think [Sacha Baron Cohen] is a genius."

Though Borat never broke character, and no one in the production let the Behars in on the joke, Joseph found Borat to be "very lovely and very polite, very attractive."

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

What happened: Anderson tells MTV that she has been sworn to secrecy about her involvement with the project, but says, "I love Sacha. He's such a nice guy ... He's the new Monty Python."

does pamela anderson think monty python is about a guy named 'monty python'?

― and what (ooo), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

he's the new rowan martin

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

He's the new Mr. Show

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/eric_show_autograph.jpg

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i can verify that al shipley is president of the bronson pinchot fan club, and was in fact rocking a meego t-shirt when he posted that
-- and what (an...), November 9th, 2006 10:03 PM.

no joke, there's a reference to Bronson Pinchot on the front page of my blog RIGHT NOW

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

"I spiraled into depression, and before I could recover, I was released from my contract early. It took me three months to find another job, and now I'm thousands of dollars in debt and struggling to keep my house out of foreclosure. The upsetting thing is that a man who leaves so much harm in his path is lauded as a comic genius."

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

nate, setting yourself up to post a 'spontaneous' picture in response to your own reference is tragically lame

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

It was an afterthought

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I just figured it wouldn't look right in parentheses

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

i want to believe you. i really do.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

"An outspoken political conservative, a Christian, and a member of the John Birch Society, Show was also an accomplished jazz musician. Out of baseball at age 34, Show died at age 37 in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Dulzura, California, of a heart attack after taking a speedball."

That is tragically lame.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yeah that quote was as jaw-dropping as his sequence in the movie.

-- Alex in SF (clobberthesauru...), November 10th, 2006.

how's that jaw-dropping? it's awful, sure, and sad, but that's pretty much what like half of america thinks!

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

i totally agree with the pinefox w/r/t him resorting to sex/scat "jokes". none of that shit (including the nude wrestling) was at all funny. omg balls in the face! hahahahahaha. no.

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

the funniest scene was the bear scaring children. and him throwing money at the cockroaches.

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

finally the al/nate rumble that will destroy us all

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

"how's that jaw-dropping? it's awful, sure, and sad, but that's pretty much what like half of america thinks!"

Half of America makes my jaw-drop then with its awfulness.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

finally the al/nate rumble that will destroy us all

1) No, I concede whatever might have been at stake here.
2) "Finally"?

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

omg balls in the face! hahahahahaha. no.

No, that was pretty hilarious

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the entire audience was in hysterics during that entire scene.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Even if the balls in the face wasn't hilarious (and it was) the fight continuing through the hotel, onto the elevator and into the real estate conference was.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

because they're balls, right! and plus the guy was fat! high five!
(was anybody else cringing at the eddie murphy trailer aka let's laugh at the fatties?)

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

This is the first movie ever that got positive reviews to have "AUDIENCE REACTIONS" shots in a trailer, right?

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 10 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

(UK TV trailer, at least)

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 10 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Crucially, the awkward pause in the elevator

xp The first Jackass movie had plenty of those in the TV trailers.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

"how's that jaw-dropping? it's awful, sure, and sad, but that's pretty much what like half of america thinks!"

Half of America makes my jaw-drop then with its awfulness.

-- Alex in SF (clobberthesauru...), November 10th, 2006.

fair enough!

just, where i live, i'm surrounded by this kind of thinking, so it's not shocking at all to me, just depressing...

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Norbit = Eddie pretending to be fat and stealing jokes from the "Homer needs to lose weight (and Marge paints Mr. Burns naked)" episode
Borat = real actual fat dude deciding to use his fatness as some sort of self-deprecating/self-aware comedy vehicle

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Plus two straight guys straddling eachother like that is always funny. See NFL, etc.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Another crucial point is that the producer's weight is never explicitly mentioned or focused on, at least as far as I can remember. We see Borat naked as much as we do the producer, but for some reason his producer's obesity is a fat joke simply because it exists.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

ok what about the bear though? was the bear in on the borat character, or was he duped too? there was an awful lot of bear footage, so you'd think it would be hard to keep up the act? but he seemed to be acting pretty genuine and not staged too, so...

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Was he really eaten??!

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

maybe that's why the couldn't find him to interview for the article?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you know, I don't usually laugh at stuff like that, but the Borat/Azamat wrestling scene was HILARIOUS, mostly just because of how far they went with it (in terms of how graphic the nudity was and also how they extended the scene into the rest of the hotel).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

wrestling naked in front of a meeting of mortgage brokers=FUNNY
30 second closeup of dude's nuts on another dude's chin=not so much.

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Haha even you describing it sounds funny.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Nuts are funny.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

of course they are.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

i like when he threw his bag down and there was a muffled chicken squawk

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

i just saw this. i need to bathe my eyes in corrosive acid for the next twenty years. also, i may require someone to help me get my jaw up off the floor.

wow. that was like stroszek meets the jerk.

― diane airbus (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Does that mean we can get Paul Banks to try and hang himself while watching this only to have him magically invent a new kind of eyeglasses?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

For Bay Area ilx0rs, Sasha Baron Cohen is going to make an appearance tomorrow night at the Camera 7 in San Jose. I am going -- any others?

― c('°c) (Leee), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

what is the 'camera 7'? a cineplex?

― something less threatening (heywood), Saturday, 11 November 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

A small, possibly art-house theater, I think.

― c('°c) (Leee), Saturday, 11 November 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

can anyone recommend some good movies like borat but about black people? you know, white people acting out their favorite black stereotypes. that would be great, thanks.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

That was his previous film.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 11 November 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

at least two staged scenes: borat kidnapping pamela and borat busting into the mortgage brokes association. there are stunt coordinators listed for each in the credits. i am willing to believe that just about nobody but pamela and the security guards knew what to expect in those scenes, though. i mean, put an audience full of extras together and tell them you're filming an infomercial, then have hell break loose. that'll get candid reactions, even if the people are "actors".

everything else seemed real enough to me.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Two of the frat boys are suing. My employer has a piece about the suit here:

http://www.onpointnews.com/

I did think the scene seemed a little over-the-top, not like they weren't real, but like they'd been kind of encouraged to say certain sorts of things before the camera started rolling - the way the one dude asks him right off "SO WHAT ABOUT THE BABES MAN!"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 13 November 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, I didn't like most of the movie, but if you're in NYC and you can't get tix, I recommend taking the PATH to the first stop on the other side of the Hudson and seeing it at the Newport Centre cinema. Waltzed right in at showtime and got good seats.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 13 November 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw this a few hours ago, and I'm STILL roffling at the retarded brother breaking out of his cage to get the vagina. I think it was his face as he told the story.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

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