Sacha Baron Cohen, creator of satirical Ali G character known to many, comes under ADL scrutiny. ADL fears many may not grasp 'farcical' nature of Cohen's anti-Semitic character 'Borat,' claiming it may serve to reinforce bigoted beliefs of some Posted on 10/02/2006 2:11:31 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
"Borat"Sacha Baron Cohen, creator of satirical Ali G character known to many, comes under ADL scrutiny. ADL fears many may not grasp 'farcical' nature of Cohen's anti-Semitic character 'Borat,' claiming it may serve to reinforce bigoted beliefs of some
Popular entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen, more widely known as Ali G., has entertained audiences with his bombastic, push-the-envelope humor. However, his upcoming film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan based on one of his characters, Borat, has the Anti-Defamation League worried. Borat is a parody of an outlandish anti-semite in a series of laughably inappropriate situations.
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The ADL worries that not everyone will understand the satirical nature of Cohen's sketch, fearing the humor to be dangerously too sophisticated for some...
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Should culture be restricted or dumbed-down to serve the very freaks and degenerates at whom ridicule is exclusively aimed?
Appalling.
I never thought this guy was funny. The idea of humor through humiliation is stupid.
Which says nothing of "Borat" of course, as I've never experienced his humor.
The same principles apply however.
I've never seen this guy, but just the title of his movie seems enough to make we want to see it.
Here's his webpage: http://borat.tv/
All Day Listener?
And his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/borat
His myspace profile would be "funnier" as a depiction of an anti-semite if he has "Jesse Jackson" and "Al Sharpton" among his top friends.
They have obviously not seen Borat.
I've seen his stuff, and he's not funny.
I agree. He's not very funny and his humor isn't very sophisticated. I think what the writer's after is that this actor's position is pretty complicated, as it was when the same guy created the character "Ali G." Then he was a White guy apparently pretending to be an Asian apparently pretending to be Black. Now he's a Jewish guy pretending to be Muslim. Just what people are laughing about or reacting against gets confused. He's trying to be shocking, to cross boundaries, and make racial and cultural resentments a part of his act, and the ADL doesn't think people will get the "right" message.
That reminds me of Andy Kaufman's old act: creating situations and characters to disparaged his reputation -- but only as a hoax!
The problem with the ADL is that they are shills for the Democrats, and only fight anti-Semitism when it doesn't clash with their liberal agenda.
They ripped Mel Gibson, and rightly so, but issued only the meekest letter criticizing Herr Olbermann for giving Nazi salutes, and have said nothing about Jew-haters like Chris Matthews or Tim Russert, (or all the other leftwing Israel-bashers in the MSM) who are always ranting against "the neocons".
If you go to their website, they seem more interested in fighting school vouchers and defending gay marriage than in fighting genocidal Jew-hatred.
There are other organizations for those causes, Mr. Foxman -- how about standing up to 1+ billion Islamonazis and hundreds of millions of Europeans who would love nothing more than to see every last Jew wiped off the face of the earth?
But then, that wouldn't get Democrats elected, would it?
Good grief. I find Ali G side-splittingly funny. I love his 3 characters.
Borat is side splittingly funny.
It's amazing how bad he can make Americans look and yes, the way he does it is funny.
He's interviewed a shooting range owner and asked why they don't execute prisoners at his range like they do at his range in Kazakstan. The owner wished he could.
He interviewed a hunting range owner and asked why they can't hunt Jews on his farm. The hunting range owner said he wished they could.
Then there's the most infamous of all Borat videos, "Throw the Jew Down the Well" singalong at some redneck bar. Folks, he had the whole crowd singing with him. Sorry red staters, that just made the whole hoe down crowd look like a bunch of anti-semites. You're not going to convince me they were being polite to the foreign singer.
That's damn funny.
Borat is awesome stuff.
There are definitely some similarities there, no doubt.
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