Sacha Baron Cohen

TheProgtologist wrote: I don't get it....I just don't like the guy's sense of humor.

Same here, I'm afraid. I think he is a completely unfunny little t**ser who simply parodies and stereotypes peoples and people in the most unfunny way. Satire is fine - I've read Private Eye for many years, but good satire has to be funny and cutting. His is neither.

That is my main problem,I find his brand of humor extremely juvenile.

TheProgtologist wrote: That is my main problem,I find his brand of humor extremely juvenile.

So is some of my sense of humor.  Loved his Alli G interview with Andy Rooney, who so did not get it.

I went to see Bruno last evening and I really enjoyed it:I like his way to play with clichés and be politically incorrect.I spent the whole film laughing moreover such film is welcome in sad times like this!

mrcozdude wrote: Very intelligent comedy in a kind of perverse way lol I like Borat and Bruno.I never cared for Ali G maybe because every chav in my school quoted him word for word for about five years They never understood irony.

I still quote him

"'Ere me now ye batties!"

And wow, chav Haven't heard that one on the Archives before, you must be from England

mrcozdude wrote: Yep lol *looks to window and sees grey clouds To be honest I'm quite surprised any Americans would like Cohen,but then I suppose the latter of Bruno & Borat are based in America.

Just looked and saw Devon... I'm going down there in a week's time

But since you looked out and saw grey clouds, I don't think I'll be expecting a change in weather. It's just rained here

Nah for real though (I use that one a lot nowadays), I'm quite surprised at Americans liking Ali G. There's a lot of Brit humour in there

Dunno where abouts because it's practically in the middle of nowhere Just coming down to visit a friend as you do...

Are they hot on folk music down there? Cos I like a bit of folk me

Evolver wrote: mrcozdude wrote: To be honest I'm quite surprised any Americans would like Cohen   Ahh, so he appeals to Europeans, like that highbrow comedian Benny Hill.

I never said he was highbrow and I'm pretty sure you ripped that off a family guy sketch lol I don't think he's to "intelligent" for Americans.It's more purely Ali G is one of many British stereotypes,though to be honest the stereotypes of Cockney Youths are completely influenced by American gangster culture.In my eyes you had Bill Hicks,we had Monty Python.Both I treasure deeply.

But I won't forgive you for Dane Cook............That I can't do.


Edited by mrcozdude - July 27 2009 at 23:51

Cohen can be a little juvenile at times, but ultimately his humor is about destroying this perception people have of us living in an enlightened age. He's proving that deep down, were still the same dim-witted cavemen we were 50000 years ago. And that to me, is the biggest joke of all. All this technology and modern society; it's like letting a chimpanzee play with a handgun.


Edited by Deathrabbit - July 28 2009 at 03:15