Why is being gay so out this season?

hey huck,

i tried to start an ali g thread a few weeks back. no response.

we're now two fans.

i think he's great, particularly as Borat, from Kazakhstan-- did you see the scene where he entered a cowboy bar and got them all singing 'kill the jew and drop him down the well.'
 
ROFL, that's a hoot! I'm looking forward to the Borat movie. :D Apparently, it isn't everyone's cup of tea, though.

I guess I like my humor like my chocolate - dark, with a bitter edge.
 
Count me in as an Ali G lover. If that clip weren't so terrifying it would indeed be very funny which of course makes it all the more squirmakingly amusing. Thanks for posting it Huckleman2000.
 
herecomestherain said:
Count me in as an Ali G lover. If that clip weren't so terrifying it would indeed be very funny which of course makes it all the more squirmakingly amusing. Thanks for posting it Huckleman2000.

You're welcome! :D You're right, though, it is a bit 'squirmaking'. I have to admire his skill though, being able to say things like "So, I can admire a man's penis in the shower, but as soon as I put that penis in my mouth, according to you, some sort of line has been crossed....", without cracking up.

And also, I didn't mean it to come across condescendingly about the 'Blue Collar Comedy' clip - I thought that one was pretty damn funny too. :D But now re-reading my post, it comes across with a certain smugness that I never intended, especially since it's from Blue Collar Comedy.

Geez, all I wanted to do was post something funny! AUUUGGGGHHHH!
 
Svenskaflicka said:
What will win - my dislike of Ali G or my fetish for satire against Americans? :p

Well, you could just watch our Dear Leader's latest press conference - he's become a parody of himself. Our news coverage is starting to look like Ali G without Ali G! :rolleyes:
 
Huckleman2000 said:
Well, you could just watch our Dear Leader's latest press conference - he's become a parody of himself. Our news coverage is starting to look like Ali G without Ali G! :rolleyes:

Yeah, but the fact that it's actually true brings the funniness down a bit. :(
 
News of Borat! An invitation!

Grumpy Kazakhs invite Borat to "his" land, at last
Thu Oct 19, 8:17 AM



ALMATY (Reuters) - Alarmed by the antics of a fictional TV reporter who portrays their country as a nation of horse urine-drinking misogynists, Kazakh authorities have invited the British comedian who plays the character to come and see the truth for himself.

Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh first deputy foreign minister and a powerful son-in-law of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, asked British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to visit the vast, oil-rich steppe nation and meet normal human beings rather than the larger-than-life lunatics shown by Cohen's TV reporter Borat.


"His trip could yield a lot of discoveries -- that women not only travel inside buses but also drive their own cars, that we make wine from grapes, that Jews can freely attend synagogues and so on," Aliyev told local news agency Kazakhstan Today late Wednesday.
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German gypsies in legal bid against Borat creator
Tue Oct 17, 3:02 PM



BERLIN (Reuters) - A German group representing Roma interests said on Tuesday it had filed a suit to try to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen showing his latest film in Germany.

"We are accusing him of defamation and inciting violence against Sinti and Roma (gypsies)," Marko Knudsen, head of the European Center of Antiziganism Research, told Reuters. Antiziganism refers to hostility to gypsies.


The group said it had filed a complaint to prosecutors over the film, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," saying it treated violence and discrimination against Roma peoples as acceptable behavior.


State prosecutors in Hamburg will investigate the allegations before deciding whether to take action.


In the satirical film, which is due to open in Germany on November 2, Cohen, creator of the comic character Ali G, plays Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh television journalist who travels to the United States to report back on the American way of life.


The film's comic barbs also target gypsies, Jews, women and many other groups.


The complaint adds to a series of protests against Cohen's creation, whose views are not only racist and anti-Semitic but also misogynist and homophobic.
 
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