Apparently the whole debutante ball thing was a scripted, staged scene with dozens of paid extras playing the attendees. Not that it makes any difference to the inherent unfunnyness of it all.
― everything, Friday, November 20, 2020 11:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
fertility dance is the funniest scene in the whole movie
― flopson, Saturday, 21 November 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link
there's something very have-it-both-ways about the whole thing, getting to indulge in racism and sexism in order to "expose" racism and sexist
while i agree that Borat 2 sucks, this is true of everything SBC has ever done, a lot of which is v good
― flopson, Saturday, 21 November 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
yeah I think you're right about that
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 21 November 2020 06:59 (three years ago) link
while i agree that Borat 2 sucks, this is true of everything SBC has ever done
― Left, Saturday, 21 November 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
but the having it both ways thing seems to be a feature of almost all acclaimed adult comedy from around the late 90s until some point last decade
― Left, Saturday, 21 November 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
“Your Kanye. He tried to move to Kazakhstan and even tried to change his name to Kazakhstan-ye West. But we said no. He’s too antisemitic even for us.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/05/borat-targets-trump-ye-and-antisemitism-at-kennedy-center-honors
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 December 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
lmao Borat at the Kennedy Center Honors what a vision
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link