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

need to repoll to include LJ

^^ otm

cant wait until we all have to sign releases for our appearances in the "l0u1s jagg3r" movie

movie or blog?

Vlog.

Ali G movie was on TV over the weekend. unwatchable.

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What's LJ?

oh how we envy you

Signor Pirelli

None of the Above

Ali J

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otm

jesus christ just fucking go away already

New one "The Dictator" looks a bit dump TBF. Anyone anticipating?

My wife and I saw that trailer this past weekend. She turned to me and said, "Is that supposed to be a comedy?"

In "Hugo" he looked exactly like http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/509/309395-16_oficer_crabtree_small.jpg and sounded exactly like http://www.iwise.com/authorIcons/13674/Peter_Cook_48x48.png

The Dictator looks pretty o_O

in addition to appearing completely unfunny, it also looks blatantly racist in the crudest possible way.

i guess i'm sorta holding out hope that they can't show any of the funny parts on tv, but yeah it looks awful

apparently some of it is set in a Williamsburg food co-op, so that has potential.

The Girls crossover we've all been waiting for!

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.

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.

downward slope.

yet curiously he has gotten much richer

The Borat commercials made it look pretty bad too though. It's probably at least way better than Ali G Indahouse

Is he still doing a Freddie Mercury biopic?

that's allegedly coming together, yes

most of it will take place in Zanzibar and will be full of hilaaaarious accents, i'm sure

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

Really funny movies sometimes have awful commercials.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/16/sacha_baron_cohens_dark_political_farce/

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.

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.

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.

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

wish he'd managed to do the freddy mercury film, he would have been really good

read the director's name as Ivan Loadsa

SBC is a fucking wretch obv

"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?

he's several degrees of magnitude worse than gervais, maybe

a true blight on culture

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

i'm not hating to be fashionable. i sat through the borat movie and it was a very unhappy time in my life

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.

Borat the sketch always sort of toed the line btw laughs at the expense of a foreign caricature vs laughs at the expense of Americans' naivite with respect to and ignorance of foreigners, but mostly leaned toward the latter. The movie really tipped things toward the former imo.

THis seems to be very hit and miss. I found myself laughing at a couple of bits but miss seems to outweigh things.
Californian vacuity seems to be a favourite topic of his, at least i'm assuming both of those women were califonian.
Way too much non-firing sketches anyway.
So wonder how many bad pub impressions it will trigger.

Agreed. First episode was pretty zzz. It's been done better many times before and in this batshit political climate not particularly shocking.

The mosque segment was depressing.

i take back some of my criticism after seeing the jason spencer thing.

party clip frog linked is so good

he he yeah it's great

Haha that Bruno clip.. haven’t seen it since it aired but I can still remember vividly the moment when the dude rips off the mic spoffle. Such a weird instantaneous moment of anger.

Still my favourite in terms of sheer nerve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMjFoT7yWE

whoops

Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer, who attracted nationwide ridicule after yelling obscenities and dropping his pants on Sacha Baron Cohen’s TV show, has submitted his resignation from the Georgia House of Representatives, the office of the House speaker confirmed to The Washington Post early Wednesday.

I guess this is already by default the year's best american journalism then

i was considering adding this to the Looks Like an Onion Headline but Isn't thread...

Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer to Resign in Wake of Pants-Dropping Debacle

note that "pants-dropping debacle" takes precedence over repeatedly shouting racial slurs and Islamophobic sentiments

that cheese video is agonizing

From BBC:

Mr Spencer had initially refused to quit over what he called a "ridiculously ugly episode".

The four-term representative was defeated in the Republican primary for his seat in May, but had intended to serve his remaining five months in office.

He said in a statement Baron Cohen had taken "advantage of my paralysing fear that my family would be attacked".

"My fears were so heightened at that time, I was not thinking clearly nor could I appreciate what I was agreeing to when I participated in his 'class'," he said.

Mr Spencer apologised to "my family, friends, and the people of my district", adding: "I deeply regret the language I used at (Baron Cohen's) request."

does this mean I have to watch the show now ?
I am not usually a fan of this kind of thing …

v cool that this guy’s able to admit that he’d be so overwhelmed by fear in the event that he was attacked that he’d be of no practical use in defending his family

i assume that his guns will be confiscated by the state for his safety and the safety of others

amazing how far the media contorts itself to avoid calling people racist

Sacha Baron Cohen made an Arizona town seem racist. Now officials are promising change. https://t.co/2ExeY9yILi

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 25, 2018

trying to find that clip yesterday by googling 'kingman az mosque' and it turns out there actually IS a mosque there...

Kingman has the creepiest Walmart I've even been in, which is saying something

"seem" racist

Well to be fair there was what? 40 citizens at the town hall? It would be irresponsible to call the whole town of 45,000 citizens racists because of these 40 folks. Unless there is something about Kingman that I missed. Man I laughed when he announced the Mosque. Parks and Rec had good bits about town halls and what kind of people attend them.

Arizona is hella racist tho like, as a state

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

There are definitely racists in arizona but living in california i met a lot of mexicans who moved/retired in arizona and love it

Also arizona is heavily advertised as a retirement spot in japan, so there are more and more asians there

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.

I googled the place as well and it has not only a mosque alreaddy but one quite large and obvious ffs. People are stupid.

Delicious Donut, you have to understand that uh, you have to follow the Constitution and the law and allow people to have guns.

on war footing with tech companies

borat sucks

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...

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ryIztqI5g

SBC oughta be careful, his entire project is in danger of cultural redaction

he will be fine

no doubts there

"SBC the human who presumably needs sustenance to keep living" and "SBC's satirical project" are v different things

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.

Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

Kinda want this to happen now:

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/sacha-baron-cohen-rudy-giuliani-contest-golden-globes-borat-loses-1234614399/