Jazzmoose Posted June 22, 2009 Report Posted June 22, 2009 Who am I to criticize; I'm laughing my ass off at the misfortune of others on this very thread... But I agree with JSngry on both counts. Maybe I don't like him because he forces me to feel sympathetic to assholes. Quote
kenny weir Posted June 22, 2009 Report Posted June 22, 2009 You can say that again! Yes, yes - very, very droll droll. (BTW, in all my years posting, IIRC that is my first double post. My newish laptop is very sensitive.) Quote
Niko Posted June 22, 2009 Report Posted June 22, 2009 (edited) i like ali g much more than the other two characters, and maybe that's because in the ali g things cohen contributes most of the fun himself (while especially borat is much more centered around confronting people with awkwardness...) (first became aware of cohen when a friend told me borat was an exact copy of my former neighbor from the student dormitory from uzbekistan... and cohen admitted that for borat he simply copied some guy he once met... we really did have situations like... girlfriend and me having dinner in the kitchen khusni comes in saying "what do you guys think about oral sex?" [don't know what we answered] "there's this huge problem with all these new tricks i learned from my girlfriend - what can i do that my wife doesn't notice" [waits for a question about the specifics of those tricks, question doesn't come]; or we meet khusni going for a walk in a relatively busy place "hey, khusni, where are you going?" "oh, i am going to the bath, me and my friends go there every friday..." "you like to swim?" "no it's just i like to masturbate in the children's basin"... against a guy like that it's hard not to feel incredibly square; (still feel bad about saying during a community meeting "see khusni, your girlfriend is a prostitute and there's nothing wrong with that, it's just, she has much different health risks than the rest of us and thus maybe, if it's ok with you, could you guys use the shower on the left so that the six others can use the other shower without worrying... you know very well one phone call from any of us and both of you'd have to move out"[because only one person per room is allowed]... or how he told - with obvious pride - those stories about his grandfather raping women in poland at the end of ww2 despite the fact that he had lost both legs... how the "business men" from his village stayed with us, they'd come walking 60 kilometers from the airport with a plastic bag full of dollar bills (through an area occupied by, say 2 million people) and spend five hours under our showers apparently they'd never seen such a thing... another neighbor from the east, rather the uncle of a neighbor who was also staying with us "sir, could you please clean the toilet you obviously just pissed and masturbated into the basin instead of the toilet and wtf did you put the stopper in?" "i am awfully sorry, but you'll have to wait until my niece comes home from work, where i come from men never clean anything" [borat would never have done such a thing] so to say i lived borat for two years and can't really find he is exaggerating or treating people overly mean - after all, he dissappears from there lives after a few minutes long post - in short i can't really find borat funny, it's to cheap a success... ("throw the jew down the well" is indeed a bit suggestive... but honestly i did not feel sorry for the football stadium full of people who freaked out when borat sang that potassium from kazakhstan is better than potassium from elsewhere in the world...) wonder if someone like ali g does indeed exist... have a similar problem with bruno, people like that actually exist... some ali g favorites: religion: science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKMhtyI3L8...feature=related the law: Edited June 22, 2009 by Niko Quote
BERIGAN Posted June 22, 2009 Report Posted June 22, 2009 Gee, I just assumed everyone here would say they loved him, how he's a true genius. Glad to see that's not true! He does have an amazing ability to stay in character, but I have never so much as cracked a smile at anything he has done. I imagine Andy Kaufman was a hero of his, but he's no Andy Kaufman. He's still alive for one thing.... Quote
Alexander Posted June 22, 2009 Report Posted June 22, 2009 some ali g favorites: religion: science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKMhtyI3L8...feature=related the law: Brilliant! Quote
Big Al Posted June 22, 2009 Report Posted June 22, 2009 Gee, I just assumed everyone here would say they loved him, how he's a true genius. Glad to see that's not true! He does have an amazing ability to stay in character, but I have never so much as cracked a smile at anything he has done. I imagine Andy Kaufman was a hero of his, but he's no Andy Kaufman. He's still alive for one thing.... Cohen does the Kaufman shtick well, but I never found Kaufman to be all that funny either..... However, I do enjoy the voice-overs that Cohen has done, particularly the voice for the king on Madagascar. Quote
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