Ali G show was one of the best DVD purchases I ever made, honestly
the segment where Bruno keeps making the Spring Breakers spell out PARTY is so classic. dude jumping off the van always makes me lose it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhP0tOm6yt0
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
I loved thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXuI3DqaCyw
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Monday, 23 July 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
Agreed. First episode was pretty zzz. It's been done better many times before and in this batshit political climate not particularly shocking.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
The mosque segment was depressing.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
i take back some of my criticism after seeing the jason spencer thing.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
party clip frog linked is so good
― iatee, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
he he yeah it's great
― niels, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link
Still my favourite in terms of sheer nervehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMjFoT7yWE
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
I guess this is already by default the year's best american journalism then
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
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
― Lee626, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link
that cheese video is agonizing
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
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."
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."
― Neil S, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
does this mean I have to watch the show now ? I am not usually a fan of this kind of thing …
― mark e, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
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 familyi assume that his guns will be confiscated by the state for his safety and the safety of others
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
trying to find that clip yesterday by googling 'kingman az mosque' and it turns out there actually IS a mosque there...
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
Kingman has the creepiest Walmart I've even been in, which is saying something
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
"seem" racist
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
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.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
Arizona is hella racist tho like, as a state
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:34 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
he will be fine
― flappy bird, Sunday, 28 June 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
no doubts there
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 05:23 (three 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 (three 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