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NVP said:
I know what you mean Crispy but weirdly I still find it funny, too. The Office is the same for me. I can barely bring myself to look but I'm laughing at the same time.
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that's one of the reasons why it's clever i reckon. a lot of comedy treads the same safe old boards and cliches.
 
foo said:
hey Strumps!
phwooar etc. :cool:

i think it's his smile, and his intelligence...swoon.
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Ello foo! :)

Ohmy....god he is adorable! Yep he has a yummy smile/mouth and twinkly eyes and his sense of humour is gorgeous. I LOVE a guy with a sense of humour/fun.
:cool:
 
I find "comedy" like this nauseating tbh. It's Maceedees, it's pop has talent, it's big brother, it's all of that sort of carefully packaged mainstream shite that seems to hit the bland average catch all spot that business men love.

In other words a pile of fucking shit for simpletons.

:cool:
 
NVP said:
I know what you mean Crispy but weirdly I still find it funny, too. The Office is the same for me. I can barely bring myself to look but I'm laughing at the same time.
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I don't mind the office, because I know it's all pretend. It's the 'take the piss out of unsuspecting people' that I don't like. Ok in short snippets, like the soundbites on Brass Eye, but sitting someone down for an interview when they don't know they're the subject of a joke just makes me squirm.
 
yeh....but...but but! Crispy, Tony Benn said he was initially cross when he realised it was fake, then he had a think and said it was genius cos it wouldn't have worked if he had known.
 
foo said:
like football then. :cool:
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:) That's quite witty. I see you in a new light.

However, football has been around for over 100 years and whilst it has been taken over by business men like Baron-Cohen recently, it's still a wonderful thing that has brought pleasure to millions of people across the World, by either playing or watching the game.

To compare some unfunny, publicity seeking, cash worshipping, talentless tart to football is somewhat incongruous.
 
foo said:
comedy has been around since the bible though.
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This is it though, I can't really put Baron-Cohen's work into a "comedy" bracket.

My point was it's just business orientated, manufactured, conveyer belt shit.

First on the conveyer belt we have Ali G, then Borat, then Bruno………

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Same formula, same whatever, same bullshit…

It's a pile of wank imo.

If you look at comedy, it often stands the test of time. Can that be said of Cohen's work? No.
 
g force said:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/jul/09/bruno-sacha-baron-cohen

This sort of response makes me want to watch it more. What a twat :D
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Sounds great to me!
But this film is still howlingly funny, staggeringly rude, brutally incorrect and very often just brilliant. It has some really extraordinary, confrontational moments that live on in my traumatised mind in a continuous loop. Before this, I had thought Michael Haneke was the only figure of world cinema with the power to knot up my intestines in horror. But Baron Cohen has done something comparable. His new persona is Bruno, the gay Austrian TV fashion journalist with the impossible umlaut: flamboyant, blond, emotionally generous yet vulnerable and still only 19 years old....

But the film's most glorious scene is absolutely real. Bruno interviews Texas congressman and would-be US presidential candidate Ron Paul in his hotel suite, and then attempts to seduce him to create a sex tape that will kickstart his celebrity career. It is sublime. Baron Cohen's nerve is incredible; Paul's outrage and horror are unmistakably the real thing, and the mistaken-identity punchline is a classic. Did Baron Cohen and his writers, Dan Mazer, Pete Baynham, Anthony Hines and Jeff Schaffer, think of the punchline first and then sucker Paul into getting involved? Or did it occur to them later? Either way, it was inspired.
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g force said:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/jul/09/bruno-sacha-baron-cohen

This sort of response makes me want to watch it more. What a twat :D
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Talk about being owned in the comments. Hahaha Daily Mail journo isn't he?

Funny how he comes across as more homophobic than the subject of his ire. He's the guy who fucked his wife over good and proper too.
He's working class don't you know?
I always thought that sitting around for 7 years, living off your middle-class wife, who's 14 years older than you, doing fuck all except write one of the most awful novels ever published and crap (like this) for the Daily Mail made you working class.:rolleyes:
 
foo said:
yeh....but...but but! Crispy, Tony Benn said he was initially cross when he realised it was fake, then he had a think and said it was genius cos it wouldn't have worked if he had known.
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Tony Benn was one of the few people to come away from an Ali G interview looking good :cool:
 
Relahni said:
If you look at comedy, it often stands the test of time. Can that be said of Cohen's work? No.
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:D do you realise how daft that sentence is? he hasn't been around for long enough to make that statement you numpty.

you just don't like him cos he's better looking and cleverer than you. :p

'funny' is subjective anyway.
 
@foo: I was on a bit of a wind-up there, tbf, but if it starts a fight between two normally perfectly nice people then I feel my work is done! :D
 
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