tmz.com — "I have come here with Bilak, my 11 year old son, his wife and their child, and we are hoping maybe to put some chocolate make-up on the child's face and sell him to Madonna. I am hoping that Madonna will be a very good father for it."
Oct 26, 2006 View in Crawl 4
rad4christOct 26, 2006
I don't get why people think he's so funny or great. He's set up a typecast character and is playing it over and over, new situations, same thing. I mean, Kaufman hated the fact that this character from Taxi consumed his fanbase as the only side of Kaufman, yet Ali G, Borat, or what he goes by just rehashes the same character incessantly for the sake of a cheap laugh. It's not all that funny, and I don't see why he's still all that amazing to people.
xmpcrayOct 26, 2006
That was in video of the song called "M.U.S.I.C."...he was Madonna's limo driver...
shunter99Oct 26, 2006
this is actually comedy with a lot of depth and social messages.he's funny because he is skewering Western culture...American culture (oxymoron?) in particular. In this clip he is wearing a jacket and fanny pack that was worn by Americans not too long ago to show how stupid it looks and to show that our belief that we are culturally superior (because of our money and technology, etc.) is ridiculous and relative. it's an age-old bit of commentary, but obviously something that we need to be reminded of again. most people that watch this will think "wow, he's making fun of people from Kazakhstan" but he's really making fun of Americans.also, if you see the clip where he is going through the grocery store and there are about 50 packages of cheese...how stupid is that (of American food and grocery companies?).and the clip in the trailer where he says "We support your war *of* terror" and the crowd goes crazy - hilarious! that is skewering Americans and our current culture beautifully!there is probably someone that can explain this better, but that is the basic idea behind the character and the film. look beyond the surface.
niczarOct 26, 2006
Any way to watch this vid on Mac or Linux? This piece of s**t AOL video wants me to install the "Mozilla Active X plugin" ... yeah right.
hackwrenchOct 26, 2006
So he's mostly a British phenomenon that hasn't had much exposure in the States, (i dunno about other countries) and no, cable pay channels, equivalent to gated communities doesn't count.
positronOct 26, 2006
Bob Saget is a prick. Think about it. He's actually a really funny guy with a very adult sense of humor, and yet he tortured us all for years on end with third rate craptastic sitcom 'humor' on Full House. If that isn't pure evil, I don't know what is. What an assh**e.
humptydankOct 27, 2006
Yes, more levels.I'm of a generation that remembers Rickles and Joan Rivers when they weren't comedy history, and although calling someone a "hockey puck" was cutting edge in it's day, Rickles, Rivers, or Robert Smigel are an entirely different kind of comedy from Sacha Baron Cohen and, in my opinion, not remotely in the same league. And please don't even mention Sara Silverman in the same breath as any of them -- she has a single joke, a hot woman saying naughty things seemingly phonetically. She should go work at an ad agency and leave comedy to the funny people.Sacha Baron Cohen comedy is very high satire -- he interviews his subjects with nearly perfect timing to get them to reveal the complete idiocy of whatever medium he happens to be on. If you want more apt comparisons I would look to Nichols and May or Shelley Berman.As Ali G might say, no disrespect to da old school, but he is a major evolution forward.
shunter99Oct 27, 2006
@ HumptydankSarah Silverman is also very high satire, actually. Her stuff has tons of depth and is meant to expose the idiocy of cultural and social norms, just like Sacha and his Ali G and Borat characters.I once saw her in a comedy club trying out new material and she did a joke about the holocaust that simultaneously skewered a) Nazis and the Germans that blindly failed to question the movement and its actions as well as b) holocaust supporters (for lack of a better word) that continuously push for the rest of the world to feel guilty about it. and to add an extra layer of depth, she's Jewish.and here's a good one: She told Playboy that her pet name for her vagina is "gentlemen." come on, there are about 5 layers to that joke!anyway, i think it's worth revisiting her stuff.
Closed AccountOct 31, 2006
I think I am a select few who can be proud to say I've never been in Madonna!