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- snypa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35No one had heard of untill recently? Are you being serious?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen
The Ali G show aired on Channel 4 in 2000. That's not very recent, is it. - ExtremeRyno, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32@hack
This guy has been around for a very long time. Had a show on HBO. - grimreaperev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26"I am hoping that Madonna will be a very good father for it." - Borat is one of the few people who makes me laugh with facts. I literally laughed out loud when I saw 'Modanna' and 'Father'.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Also, Ali G was in Madonna a long time ago.
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Bob Saget does adult NSFW comedy now. He came by our university and was hilarious...tickets sold out in just a few days.
So, if you've only seen him on TV, chances are, you've got a completely wrong picture about his sense of humor. - sublimethinker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Seems like someone is paying AOL to push their content...
- vileS, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22I can't wait to see this film.
- aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Bob Saget is actually hilarious, you obviously have never seen him do standup.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6193278516566137950&q=Saget&hl=en - killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that's an addiction. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?" - Bob Saget
- markus941, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12We're sorry, this feature requires the Mozilla ActiveX Plugin. Kiss my ass AOL.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Well no duh, Borat likes sex and his sister is the number 4 prostitute in all of Kazakstan so I bet he has a lot of children to sell. He should try eBay.
- shunter99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11this 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. - fleetskeet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Ali G was in some Madonna music video a long time ago.
- Jolene, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Bob Saget in The Aristocrats (NSFW): http://youtube.com/watch?v=H_cKCK6Blv0
Bob Saget has been a dirty comic for a very long time.
Also check out Danny Tanner is Not Gay (NSFW): http://youtube.com/watch?v=OwIyvr4Q2GY - surfit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The Borat character has been around for years on Channel 4, that London event even got a mention of Newsnight, which shows how weirdly significant it was...
- tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The funny thing is that he actually created his Full House character because it was so opposite of what his comedy is. Shot himself to fame and shot himself in the foot at the same time.
- dime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6He's funny not because of what he says, but what he gets people to say to him.
- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Jagshemash.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Also, Ali G was in Madonna a long time ago."
Dude, *everyone* was in Madonna a long time ago. It's like the Beltway down there. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes it is a rehash, but that's because he is better able to manipulate people as a naive/dumb foreigner than as a white gansta wannabe.
Some of the jokes are borderline, but i find it fantastic humour - not because of the words, but because of the reactions of others desperately trying to give what they think is a genuine person benefit of the doubt. - Lemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Borat is not an "insult comic". The humour has a lot more levels than that.
- dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Well, have no fear, Jay Leno will be on tonight to soothe you.
I don't understand people who can't be more diverse in there appreciation of comedy.
Fraiser, Farrelly Bros. movies, Andy Kaufman, all of it is pretty funny to some degree. While grossout comedy scales it's humor level in me the more obscene they feel the need to be, it'll at least get a rise out of me.
Just no prop comedians. That's not comedy. Never. When your act involves you clutching anything other than a mic, you're on shaky ground. - Sp0rAdiC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4A friend of mine saw him at UVM, they said it was pretty funny/shocking, because he was pretty vulgar compared to his old tv image.
- xmpcray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That was in video of the song called "M.U.S.I.C."...he was Madonna's limo driver...
- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes, 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. - lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Look what he did, he ***** on the window!"
-Bob Saget
Also, watch the music video he did with Jamie Kennedy. - BasouKazuma, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Yea, if you've ever watched the Ali G Show, you would have known about him.
Edit: Damn, you people beat me to it. - usedwigs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5He was also quoted in a British paper saying:
"I have brought here with me my 11-year-old son, his wife and their new-born baby, who I am hoping to sell to singing transvestite Madonna."
The first 4 minutes of Movie available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-qO8Oywpas&eurl= - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Stop spamming.
- positron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bob 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 *****.
- niczar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Any way to watch this vid on Mac or Linux? This piece of ***** AOL video wants me to install the "Mozilla Active X plugin" ... yeah right.
- karmarhino, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Thank you for sharing this exclusive information with us.
- shunter99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ Humptydank
Sarah 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 "*****." come on, there are about 5 layers to that joke!
anyway, i think it's worth revisiting her stuff. - ippersiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think I am a select few who can be proud to say I've never been in Madonna!
- kunkie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4that's actually not the first four minutes, I've seen the film and bits (about jews) are cut out in the youtube trailer.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
- Mu99ins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lemon-
More levels? - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Although I agree with you (and modded you up), Lets have a lesson in Digg Math!
Is anyone tired of + popular story = Modded down
Sorry - Mu99ins, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I like this comedian, although his humor is getting threadbare with
all his media attention. (Again with that Borat character? Oy Vey!)
So what if he insults people, that does not make him newsworthy,
admittedly, the public complaint by the Kazakhstan envoy did give
him a mega-boost. Insult comics have been around for a long time,
going back at least as far as Don Rickles, who was one of the best.
Joan Rivers' act is very scathing, as is Sarah Silverman's, both of whom
are much funnier and extensive than Sacha Baron (Borat). I would
prefer to see Triumph the Insult Dog any day. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Fair play chief, you really have been paying attention... coming to the digg crown for some extra marketing is a nice touch!
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1So 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.
- Bean945, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3You mean channel 4 Britain
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Ah ha! So this is the same guy who did Ali G... Huh...
So, is this more of an MTV promotion thing? This is why we're seeing this "Borat" character all over now?
*sigh* So we're going to see this all over now, huh... 'Til we get tired of it and beyond. Ok. Par for the course for cheapo American advertising...
I'm sure his comedy is quite good, it's just more MTV style promotion. I guess I don't mind seeing as I saw Napoleon Dynamite. - giociampa, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0@cinemafia: Did I miss the sarcasm tag? Brunu IS Ali G IS Borat - it's the same joke repeated time and again, just using a different stereotypical character to catch people unawares...
- exsst, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Madonna needs to be slated for her public stunt for adopting a child, she's a total whore and she needs to get ***** ridiculed for it.
- rad4Christ, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4I 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.
- bilaks, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I very sorry, my internets addres: http://www.borat-son.com
- dandyhighwayman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Madonna is too busy with Britney's kid anyway...
http://politicsofdancing.blogspot.com/2006/10/madonna-claims-britneys-baby-as-her.html - bilaks, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1My name a Bilak. I son of Borat. I blogs directly from the glorious country Kazakhstan.
I have an internets blogs on the internets in address www.borat-son.com
Please you visit for latest news in our Family. - oneiroi, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1I think Bob Saget is just doing "NSFW" humor now because everyone thinks of him as the Full House and Funniest videos full of G rated humor. Him saying bad things is extra funny because of that image.
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