Sacha Baron Cohen

I went to see Borat yesterday. Maybe it was because I had seen all of the funny stuff from the movie on YouTube already, but it mostly bored me.

That said, I think Sacha Baron Cohen is hysterically funny.

This video I found on YouTube (courtesy of the vodpod on this blog) cracks me up:

Comments

[Rogel]

The truth to be said about Burat, and about the TV show, is that it is very vulgar. Yes, some of the humor is good and it is like a mirror reflecting our society (or portions of it) - but it is extremely vulgar.

[Kempton]

Sorry to hear the film bored you. I had a great time watching Borat when it first came out in film and I blogged about it in a few entries,
http://kempton.wordpress.com/?s=sacha

Here is a Rolling Stone interview quote from Sacha Baron Cohen that shed some light,
“I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, ‘The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.’ I know it’s not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it’s an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.”

Here is a David Letterman interview of Sacha that also talks about the process behind the acts,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0b_lTEgICw

[Michael Wagner]

I can understand your being "mostly bored" - after a while it is one predictable joke told in a numerous settings.

I do find Kempton's background from Rolling Stone on Cohen's desire to attack indifference making sense to me. My two young sons (19 & 23) really love the Borat persona and when I ask "why" they point to a lot of the hatred and prejudice he exposes.

Thanks for extending the conversation - Mike

[kas]

hehe =) cool video thx from Russia