Shock comedy is as old as comedy.
That he wins peoples trust to get them to play along with his skits and then uses that to ridicule and condemn them (just like the jackass producers did in “Jesus Camp”) is merely typical of how leftists use deceit to further their agenda, and then try to spin that betrayal by calling it satire.
The sooner someone beats the snot out of Cohen, the better. Let's hope its a Jewish lesbian woman who has enough spine and intelligence to see that this sort of slimy exploitation is intended to make one leftist egotist rich and famous at the expense of driving people apart and causing hostility among them.
Into the dustbin of history, Cohen, you bore us.
A friend of mine played Borat on DVD for me a few weeks ago. Probably the most painfully unfunny movie I ever saw. No thank you, Bruno. I won’t waste my time or money on you.
From the trailer, Borat looked to be one of the funniest films ever. It looked like a brilliant mockumentary full of very funny moments.
The actual movie ... not so much.
Using shock for the sake of shock and relentlessly low brow and swimming in the gutter, Borat was about as funny as Schindler’s List.
I loved Borat. Bruno had some funny moments, but it is gross in the extreme. And rather than proving America’s supposed “homophobia,” it does the opposite. The Americans depicted are way too patient with and tolerant of Bruno’s antics.
If somebody curb stomped this idiot and kicked his a$$ up and down main street I’d pay to see that
I went and seen Borat in the theater - there were moments I laughed so hard I had tears coming from my eyes, and times I felt so disgusted I wanted to walk out. Overall, it was a funny movie.
Bruno I wouldn’t go see if someone forced me to go at gunpoint.
Now it seems with "Bruno", Cohen made the same film. Hey, he thought to himself, I'll go to the American south again and expose homophobia for all to see. But even some homosexual movie reviewers are panning the film. Hey Cohen, try something different next time. I've got an idea, why not pose as a conservative and go around lib communities and expose them for the bigoted clods most of the are?
I am reminded of Act two, scene five of "As You Like I". The character Malvolio is completely set up when his detractors plant a forged letter for him to read. Malvolio is the victim. He believes it is the lovely Olivia who loves him. He struts and preens himself. He is completely gulled by Sir Toby Belch and the wench Maria.
What may be ignored in using another era as a defence of the likes of Cohen, is that the participants were all actors. None were deceived, none absolutely devastated. Then away to the tavern all together afterward no doubt.
Those who support this man (Cohen) and laugh would of course fail to see the bottom line. If THEY had a relative, who was a vulnerable person and was gulled by Cohen and his even worse confederates and was ridiculed and humiliated- Would THEY then laugh?