Well at least Sacha Baron Cohen thinks Sacha Baron Cohen is funny.

DNRTFA. But Sarah Palin would be #1 on my list.

ricewater_stool: DNRTFA. But Sarah Palin would be #1 on my list.

Better than all 10 they picked. Would it really be that hard to pick real people who are still alive?

A very meh list.

How about we get "Bruno" to interview "Borat" as he's getting ready to interview "Ali G."? The comedic permutations are ENDLESS!

Diogenes: ricewater_stool: DNRTFA. But Sarah Palin would be #1 on my list.

Better than all 10 they picked. Would it really be that hard to pick real people who are still alive?

A very meh list.

I guess TFA wants him dead, too.

Sacha Baron Cohen is obnoxious.

How about 'satan'

how about anyone that would punch him in the face?

buster_v: Sacha Baron Cohen is obnoxious.

That's putting it mildly...

Diogenes: ricewater_stool: DNRTFA. But Sarah Palin would be #1 on my list.

Better than all 10 they picked. Would it really be that hard to pick real people who are still alive?

A very meh list.

You got my hopes up when I saw Dick Cheney...

/leaving disappointed

That was stupid and a slideshow. Nothing to see here, folks.

I'm old. I don't get the Cohen love.

And whomever said Bruno looks like MadTV's Stewart -- THANK YOU!

i named him OJ

I only saw the first one (don't usually have patience for slideshows): Ann Coulter. Which means the entire premise for the article is wrong. The premise of the Borat/Bruno schtick is to provoke people into dropping their social defenses and exposing the true personality beneath -- which in most cases is ugly or intolerant.

Ann Coulter's schtick, on the other hand, is putting the ugliness and intolerance on the outside. (If anything, she's a right-wing, political version of the same Borat/Burno gag, trolling liberals into exposing their own intolerance.) Getting her to drop her "character" and reveal her true self might be interesting to those who don't realize that her public persona is an act (she's known to be a huge Deadhead, among other things), but it's not going to be the same kind of "nice person on the outside, ugly person on the inside" shock that is the Borat/Bruno gig's stock in trade.

This article is like a bad stand up comic's routine. "Okay, what if Jack Nicolson and Mr. T had dinner together? I think it'd sound a little like this..."

Who really gives a rats (_*_) about this guy???

buster_v: Sacha Baron Cohen is obnoxious.

He can be funny in short doses, but like everything that comes out of Hollywood, they must saturate you with it until all but the die-hard fans are annoyed, hoping to get $10 from you somewhere along the way.

I mean, I thought Austin Powers 1 was funny, but by the 3rd I wanted Mike Myers to die in a train derailment.

Wow. Very impressive and interesting article.

NOT.

For some reason the article had tons of popups that caused my compy to crash. can someone post highlights of the slideshow?

xnewnoisex: For some reason the article had tons of popups that caused my compy to crash. can someone post highlights of the slideshow?

Churchill was on it. That is all you need to know.

/sigh

Lloyd Braun: This article is like a bad stand up comic's routine. "Okay, what if Jack Nicolson and Mr. T had dinner together? I think it'd sound a little like this..."

It's like I went back to the 80s and flipped on A&E.

SBC uses deception, lies and mockery at the expense of other people to make what he call humor.

Don Rickles used insults as a tool to create laughs.

Cohen is just an insulting tool.

Lloyd Braun: This article is like a bad stand up comic's routine. "Okay, what if Jack Nicolson and Mr. T had dinner together? I think it'd sound a little like this..."

"You can't handle the gravy!"

"I pity the fool that doesn't pass the peas!"

/still funnier than Paula Poundstone

I did not like Borat and found it rather tasteless. Now I know that is the idea, but unfunny is still unfunny. The only thing worse then a movie being unfunny is an endless sea of morans quoting said unfunny movie. I am sure we will get more of this with Bruno.

Have him interview Hard Gay. See whom would back down first, or alternatively they would join forces and start humping the cameraman.

I just want to see somebody (anybody) haul off and punch the shiat out of him - just once.

I really don't get the "act like a douchebag in front of somebody who was taking you seriously and watch them squirm trying to remain polite" act - is the joke supposed to be that the other person is funny while they're squirming? Are we making fun of the "serious" person who doesn't get the joke?

It reminds me of the kid who says "Guess what?" and when you say "What?" he says "That's what!" and laughs at you because you didn't "get" the joke.

Lloyd Braun: This article is like a bad stand up comic's routine. "Okay, what if Jack Nicolson and Mr. T had dinner together in a Egyptian restaurant? I think it'd sound a little like this..."

"I pita the fool who calls this fool!"
"People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my koshary."

That was the shiatty list.

I would like to see him interview Mike Tyson. That I would watch, just hoping that Mike forgot to take his meds. That could be entertaining.

That had to be the worst article ever. And #1 on my list is definitely Ahnold.

The Butkus interview sounds like a good idea. Sacha would look good with a snapped neck.

Thank Jebus. I was beginning to think I was weird or something. I never thought this guy was funny. I just found him insulting and stupid. My 19 yr old insists it the funniest shiat since ever. Gonna smack that boy upside the head......

this was stupid

Oh, wait- You mean the OTHER one, right?

I wish he would interview somebody with a loaded gun and a chemical imbalance.

SneakyBackdoorNutSucker: Are we making fun of the "serious" person who doesn't get the joke?

Point is, he's so over the top that any sane person should know that it's a joke. There were a couple people who figured out Ali G was a joke and went right along with it. Granted Ali G was about something different than Borat or Bruno, but point stands, not getting that it's joke says something about the people involved. And there are some, who do get the joke.

The dude is supremely talented. I don't find his stuff all that funny necessarily, but then again I'm not at all sure that's really what he's going for.

SneakyBackdoorNutSucker: I just want to see somebody (anybody) haul off and punch the shiat out of him - just once.

I really don't get the "act like a douchebag in front of somebody who was taking you seriously and watch them squirm trying to remain polite" act - is the joke supposed to be that the other person is funny while they're squirming? Are we making fun of the "serious" person who doesn't get the joke?

It reminds me of the kid who says "Guess what?" and when you say "What?" he says "That's what!" and laughs at you because you didn't "get" the joke.

You and me both. I don't see the point in humor where the cornerstone of the joke is that one of the two parties is being set up as a fool by a stranger; at least practical jokes have the reservoir of friendship to draw from and smooth it over. Where Cohen is involved, there's none of that- he's just setting out to be a douche to people who were minding their own business. So what if they have a darker, less funny side to their personality that comes out when being exposed to concentrated assholism? Everybody does.

MugzyBrown: I wish he would interview somebody with a loaded gun and a chemical imbalance.

How will he find my house? Did you give him directions?

xnewnoisex: For some reason the article had tons of popups that caused my compy to crash. can someone post highlights of the slideshow?

You, sir, need to develope other interests.

WhyteRaven74: SneakyBackdoorNutSucker: Are we making fun of the "serious" person who doesn't get the joke?

Point is, he's so over the top that any sane person should know that it's a joke. There were a couple people who figured out Ali G was a joke and went right along with it. Granted Ali G was about something different than Borat or Bruno, but point stands, not getting that it's joke says something about the people involved. And there are some, who do get the joke.

For some reason I get the feeling he goes out of his way to find people who won't get the joke. I've not seen much of his stuff outside previews and clips, so maybe there's folks who very much get the joke involved and they just aren't used for publicity. What I've seen of it doesn't make me interested in seeing any more because of the seeming intentional humiliation of his victims.

A farking smurf? Of all the stupid shiat I've read, who the hell would want to interview a smurf

olapbill: how about anyone that would punch him in the face?

Well said, sir. Well said, indeed.

They also bumbled the Churchill entry. I assume they were trying to imply he said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," but of course that was FDR about the Depression, not Churchill about any damn thing.

His whole schtick is about exposing something about people that might be, um, questionable. And he's damn good at it. I personally do not enjoy that kind of humor, but there it is.

Yeah, and then if they die, the edgy shock comedian will immediately puss out and pull it out of the film.

WhyteRaven74: SneakyBackdoorNutSucker: Are we making fun of the "serious" person who doesn't get the joke?

Point is, he's so over the top that any sane person should know that it's a joke. There were a couple people who figured out Ali G was a joke and went right along with it. Granted Ali G was about something different than Borat or Bruno, but point stands, not getting that it's joke says something about the people involved. And there are some, who do get the joke.

No, that's not the point. Ruining other people's days to get laughs is not a point, it's a pure lack of the civility he thinks he's mocking in others.

Seriously, most of know this guy. He's the jack-a who walks up to you and your gf and exposes himself then giggles and farts cus he thinks he's pushing social boundaries and making the world a freer, happier place.

These are the same people who put crap in a jar and call it art, they're all ridiculous, and they think it's amazing that they're so much 'not like everyone else'.

Ali G, Borat, and Bruno - if they ever had a point, it was completely wasted in the tactless manner they attempt to express it. Sure, pooping in a jar might make a statement about how badly we've trashed the earth, but it doesn't make people care.

And putting someone in a ridiculously awkward position to try and force some sort of personal revelation is like handing them that jar of crap, as soon as they can throw it away and wash their hands, they will.

But vertiaset, in the other thread they told me Billy Bob was a dead South Carolinian mass murderer.

/A great chance, lost.
//Alas

INeedAName: Seriously, most of know this guy. He's the jack-a who walks up to you and your gf and exposes himself then giggles and farts cus he thinks he's pushing social boundaries and making the world a freer

Where the hell do you live? This is not normal. I think you are making up a group of people.

Steve-O

I think he's funny. I like watching people who are acting polite squirm.

/Key word is "acting"