Larry Charles to direct Borat movie

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

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Homosexuals are coming into his household?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, and demanding all sorts of things. Fistings and the likes, I'd imagine.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

"lift TWO chairs!"

ha, i hope the DVD has plenty of cut footage.

also, i can't believe the lady had to "soldier" thru Talladega Nights. What, didn't she like the "baby jesus" scenes or Gary Cole?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

It's, like, before you could just pump your gas

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

pump your gas

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

lol

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

he's the new rowan martin

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

He's the new Mr. Show

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

It was an afterthought

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

I just figured it wouldn't look right in parentheses

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

i want to believe you. i really do.

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

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

finally the al/nate rumble that will destroy us all

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

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

omg balls in the face! hahahahahaha. no.

No, that was pretty hilarious

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

(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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Was he really eaten??!

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha even you describing it sounds funny.

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

Nuts are funny.

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

of course they are.

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

what is the 'camera 7'? a cineplex?

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

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

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

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