So can you only watch this on Showtime?
― frogbs, Sunday, 15 July 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
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.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
It's being circulated on torrent sites already.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
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?"
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
It feels like another level of normalization if having reps and senators say these things is judged as entertainment.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Like omg ppl will do anything if they think they are on TV what a novel observation from 75 yrs ago
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Dude we have a reality TV show star for president, horse has left the barn
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
"My son was in the very first program, may he rest in peace.. "
worth it just for this.
― piscesx, Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
GEFAFWISP or gtf
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
Brass eye is so good, mandatory for anyone who wants to talk about sbc whether hater or boosterThe 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
― Centipedes? In this economy? (wins), Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
That Matt Gaetz guy looks like he's wearing a mask, too. And Joe Wilson slurs his interview.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 July 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
Pills 'n' soap.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
at age 4 a child processes images 80% faster than an adult, meaning essentially, like owls, they can see in slow motion
― Dan S, Sunday, 15 July 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
I find that hard to believe given the increase in myelination of the brain through adolescence.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 15 July 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Sunday, 15 July 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
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.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 July 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 15 July 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
Is that me having more faith in human nature than is deserved.
yes
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Monday, 16 July 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
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
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 16 July 2018 04:59 (six years ago) link
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
― Ross, Monday, 16 July 2018 05:17 (six years ago) link
that was some of the funniest shit I've seen in a long time, absolutely incredible what these people go along with
― niels, Monday, 16 July 2018 11:26 (six years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Monday, 16 July 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
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.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 July 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Monday, 16 July 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
He was actually attached to the biopic for a while iirc
― Simon H., Monday, 16 July 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
Yeah that's what i mean..it ended badly.
― piscesx, Monday, 16 July 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Yes, he died of an AIDS related illness before he could join the fight against badger culling.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Monday, 16 July 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
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.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 16 July 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
but it's hilarious!
― niels, Monday, 16 July 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
Watched the first Sanders segment and don't know if I'll bother continuing. There's simply no joke in it
― Number None, Monday, 16 July 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Monday, 16 July 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
xpalso 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.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 16 July 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
"should get" are the two words to end that sentence.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 16 July 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
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.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
This sounds as insufferable as expected, it sounds like he's done a Shatner's Bassoon ripoff as well. Fuck this tool!
― calzino, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
satire huh so that's what this is.
mods can you delete my last three posts i clearly missed the point
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
Sacha Baron Cohen's not actually supposed to be "funny," you know.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
it's quite possible that his ambitions/aims have evolved...
Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America” is much more disturbing than the surface-level of officials saying “give children weapons.” (Brief thread)https://t.co/vmI6pk8pIs— Ms. Entropy / سيدة الفتنة (@MsEntropy) July 16, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 July 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
He has evolved beyond "Grimsby".
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Monday, 16 July 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
It’s hard watching satire post-Trump. 2 years or so back, during every episode of Last Week Tonight about the NRA or Drumpf’s bankruptcies or whatever i was like “Wow how can he survive THIS…” and then you’d see it didn’t dent his image one jot somehow.
― piscesx, Monday, 16 July 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
Outraging liberals IS his image
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 July 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
xp thought it was kind of obvious that the use of the character had as much to do with Israel and the terrorism paradigm as with gun control. I mean he makes a joke about shooting an arab gardener, that's pretty "surface level" but thanks twitter thread
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
the sanders bit was pretty funny if you watched it with scott steiner's "steiner math" in your head (tbf tho it's always in my head)
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 19 July 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
Baron Cohen also came from a highly educated university iirc
― tsrobodo, Thursday, 19 July 2018 10:44 (six years ago) link
THe show seems to be doing well enough that it can sponsor the Late Show. I'm not 100% sure what that entails but surprised tehy would have extra budget if its what I thought it was.
But it was tagged as sponsor on one of the last 2 nights.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 19 July 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
That's Showtime looking to take the lead from HBO. Between having Billions (better than Succession) and this show (more buzz than any recent HBO comedy), makes sense they'll spend to sponsor it.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 19 July 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
I feel like his star fell a lot with the Borat movie, the Bruno movie and various dumb antics, but the Ali G show was legit very funny imo.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 19 July 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
Borat movie was his peak, Bruno was when everyone got sick of him
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link