Just Another Comedian With Good CIA Contacts

Comment: Having had the displeasure of watching ‘Bruno‘  – I can honestly say it’s probably the most dumbed-down, vile, and unfunny piece of crap I’ve ever had the misfortune to witness. At least Borat had sporadic moments of social commentary and political satire. Sacha Baron-Cohen needs to realize that the only people who will laugh at a penis wiggling around on screen for two minutes are semi-retarded zombies whose brains have been partially lobotomized by all the aspartame and sodium fluoride they have consumed.

The “Ass” movie in Idiocracy was supposed to be a parody on some nightmare future world where people are so retarded that ‘entertainment’ consists of watching rude body parts – but in watching Bruno we find that reality is already here with us today.

The part where he tries to make a fool out of Ron Paul is just tragic and pathetic. Most of the “confrontations” in the movie leave the viewer siding with the victim, not laughing at them. Hopefully this will be the last we will see of Baron-Cohen’s dull and predictable antics on the big screen.

There’s my review – you’ll find a very different perspective if you read reviews from Hollyweird publications whose interests are firmly centered around keeping people drooling, slurping on Coke and giggling at sophmoric garbage like Bruno forevermore.

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Darryl Mason
Your New Reality
Sunday, July 12, 2009

A 75 year old southern gentleman who loves ballroom dancing with his friends in Alabama found himself on the receiving end of a Sacha Baron-Cohen prank for his new movie, Bruno. Cohen came to their small dance with his film crew, in character as Austrian gay attention whore, Bruno, and tried to shock these ‘old timers’ with an ‘outrageous’ deep kiss with his male dancing partner. Ooooh, cutting edge comedy. How radical. How…last century.

The southern gentleman points out that few of his fiends at the dance were shocked by the kiss. But they were outraged that their southern hospitality had been taken advantage of. So simple revenge was plotted :

Calling friends in other ballroom groups the next morning, I found he’d booked to film more dances – in Huntsville, and also Chattanooga and Nashville in Tennessee. Sacha’s organised, but we’re very organised, too. We put out the word on the internet and they were all cancelled. He was on our territory, so we could do what we liked. Sorry for messing up your schedule, Brüno.

In the South we are taught to trust people, to show hospitality. In return we were insulted. Baron Cohen, I concluded, was little more than an empty shell. Religion has b,een reported to be important to him, but his personal religion seems to be based on greed and deriving pleasure from shocking others, often being cruel and uncaring – to get what he is after.

And here’s an observation that gets rarely mentioned in all the discussions and reviews and fucking endless op-eds about Cohen’s ‘gotcha’ movie-making :

…those sheets of paper we signed were release forms, giving our consent to the footage being used in Sacha’s forthcoming film about Brüno, the gay Austrian television reporter. We were, it turned out, extras working for a pittance.

Or no money at all. Dozens, hundreds of people, appeared in the extremely profitable Borat and Bruno movies, and some had near starring roles, but none of them got paid what any other actor would have received for the same amount of screen time in any other big studio movie. And the ‘extras’ who populate Cohen’s movies don’t get a screen credit, either.

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And here’s a most curious interview of Sacha Baron-Cohen, out of character, discussing how he managed to get an interview with “an actual terrorist”. How did this British satirist get to interview a real terrorist? His “contact” at the CIA helped out.

Err, what?

Australians, of course, have seen Cohen’s act done before, and better, decades ago.

In the 1970s, we had Norman Gunston. Norman Gunston was a richly-crafted character played by actor Gary McDonald who would front up to interviews and press conferences, as just another reporter, though a uniquely bizarre looking one, and proceed to cause confusion, chaos and plenty of laughs. The difference with Norman Gunston was he pulled his pranks on celebrities and politicians, not everyday people who were kind enough to invite some freak to their dance or dinner party.

Here’s Norman Gunston interviewing Mick Jagger :

And here’s Norman Gunston interviewing Mohammed Ali :

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