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No Cash for ‘Bruno’

  • Here’s my review of Brüno which, of course, I didn’t actually see: penis, anus, GAY, liar.

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Comments: 116

 
 
 

A rather detailed review for somebody who claims not to have watched it in a hot tub at the local 4 seasons w/ a bald man w/ a moustache who’s name rhymes w/ G Gordon Ibby.

 
 

Nice that we’ve progressed from urinals to nice claw-footed tubs/

 
 

Cannot support teh ghey, even tangentially! Ask any conservative and they’ll tell you right out: If it weren’t for religious, societal, and (in some instances) legal strictures on being gay, every conservative man would be gay!

 
 

Shouldn’t that be Bösell?

Take Alabama pastor Jody Trautwein, who earnestly tries in the film to convert Bruno to leave his homosexual lifestyle in favor of Christianity.

[…]

So a good pastor is set up and ridiculed because, well, because he’s a good man, and nothing else. That’s humor?

Trautwein sat with Cohen’s character for two entire hours, absorbing Cohen’s abuse. The pastor said director Larry Charles (who only used his first name) praised him when the abuse was over. “He said he didn’t think he could have been that patient with Bruno.”

Trying to shove teh ghey back in the closet pretty much negates anything else he might have done to been called a “good man.”

 
 

PENIS.

 
 

Yes, I’m sure it has its funny moments, and some are laugh-out-loud hilarious. I say I’m sure because I really don’t know. I was on my way to the theater when I reversed course. I’m not going to give these slimy people $9.50, or $1.50. Besides, it’s all there on the Internet.

BitTorrent Brent Bözell.

 
 

Besides, it’s all there on the Internet.

Par-DON?

WTF? Is Missah Brent actually encouraging theft of SACRED HOLY intellectual property?

Sheezh, Brent, who not just fucking knock over a bank for that $9.50?

 
 

Ancient Mesoamerican sculpture of a cell-phone user.

What’s Nauatl for “What did you want me to pick up at the store, again?”?

 
 

I say I’m sure because I really don’t know.

Something is inescapable, but it’s not the logic.

 
 

From the very first sentence, Bozell can’t restrain himself from writing about opening up man-holes with Pat Buchanan.

 
 

Brent had me when he started talking about Pat “Sweet Meat” Buchanon’s “manhole.”. GGGRRRRrrowwwwllll.

 
 

Snorhagen totally beat me to the Buchanan erotica……..

 
 

Besides, it’s all there on the Internet.

so he illegally downloaded it?

And maybe that’s what’s more upsetting than the smuttiness. It is the systematic dishonesty. Cohen’s filmmaking strategy is to lie relentlessly to the real people he interacts with on film.

Bozell felt bad for the Hamas guy. And don’t tell him about Alan Funt.

 
 

Occasionally when something outrageous and ridiculous comes out that supports their side, conservatives can sniffishly play the “you haven’t seen/read it” game. Case in point: “The Bell Curve,” which basically said there’s no use trying to help black people because they’re congenitally stupid. When the predictable furor erupted, Bozell’s daddy’s buddy Bill Buckley (say that three times fast) wrote in National Review, “Unlike other people who haven’t read the book, we have no opinion about it. Honest.” Yeah, an honest cop-out.

 
 

Ancient Mesoamerican sculpture of a cell-phone user.

Aren’t four cats called Maggie enough?

 
 

Never forget that this is L. Brent Bözell III we’re talking about, a 2nd generation legacy wingnut. As Justice Holmes reminds us, three generations of imbeciles are enough.

 
 

Bozell:

The smutty new movie “Bruno” can be read by its cover.…But this character is so unbelievably stupid and self-absorbed that the film seems to set the cause of sexual “liberation” backward by a decade or two.

Sorry Homosexual Agendists, but Bruno just rewound the clock to 1989. That’s the power of smut.

Hey, Smut Clyde, did you visit my favorite museum? And this time, the question is not rhetorical.

 
 

Hah! I did see that museum when I was out at Belem. The Berardo Collection took priority, however.

 
 

the film seems to set the cause of sexual “liberation” backward by a decade or two

Make a sequel and we could probably roll it all the way back to Woodstock.

 
 

Haven’t seen it either, and probably won’t till Netflix has it, but the promos made me wonder: are any gay people offended by that character? Because it seems to me like Cohen’s doing the gay version of blackface.

 
Fleas correct the era
 

I say I’m sure because I really don’t know.

What a surprise: a Bozellism that’s actually true. Even more surprising: true for more than one cherry-picked instance. Still more surprising: true all the time.

These are the days of miracle and wonder.

Don’t cry.

 
"Oh Stewardess, I Speak 'Nut"
 

OT (mi scusi, signor) but did anyone else catch the bizarre Buzz Aldrin interview with CNN’s Kristie Lu this past week? We’ll soon be talking of the Legend of Buzz the way Stories of Norris (Chuck) now circulate.

Anyhoo, the best part was when they were talking about SB Cohen. (I’d forgotten Ali G interviewed Buzz.) Aldrin said he learned in advance that Cohen was going to ask him when man will walk on the sun. Buzz was ready with the answer, “We’ll have to go at night.” Nice.

 
 

Hmm… Bozell… costumed Austrian dandy… Come and rock me Dr. Zaius!

 
 

are any gay people offended by that character?

As a gay man who’s African-american, as well as part Italian and Puerto Rican–hell yeah I’m swarthy!–I can speak with some authority on cultural stereotypes as they are played out on the screen. Yeah, definitely, the blackface comparison is a good one, it’s almost like taking two steps backward after having gone so far forward with Brokeback. Having said that, Bruno is so screamingly over the top, that he isn’t offensive as much as he is cringe-inducing— like you almost feel sorry for his victims, even the creeps like Pastor Jody. To me , Cohen could have stood on the street in his gay get-up and flung shit at the passers-by and made the same statement as he did with Bruno.

 
 

Bozell would rather download it than watch it in the theater because it’s easier to stroke off to it at home instead of in public…

 
 

Cohen could have stood on the street … and flung shit at the passers-by …

I have little doubt that was Cohen’s original pitch.

 
 

To me , Cohen could have stood on the street in his gay get-up and flung shit at the passers-by and made the same statement as he did with Bruno.

I don’t get a lot of entertainment out of Cohen, really. He’s Tom Green with an extra testicle.

 
 

wasn’t

 
You Can't Put Lipstick On A Repig
 

WTF? Is Missah Brent actually encouraging theft of SACRED HOLY intellectual property?

As it always, ALWAYS, goes…

IOKIYAR

 
 

he isn’t offensive as much as he is cringe-inducing— like you almost feel sorry for his victims, even the creeps like Pastor Jody

Anthony Lane of the New Yorker had a similar reaction and argues that in the end the joke is on Cohen. I haven’t seen this one. I did see Borat and pretty quickly lost sympathy for Cohen’s character and what he was trying to do with it comedically.

 
 

Cannot support teh ghey, even tangentially!

Hence the republican boycott of Hollywood movies, Broadway theater, fashion houses, work in general, and Lindsay Graham.

 
 

The trouble with Bruno, is it makes exactly the same statement as Borat did, or even Ali G. It is a different stereotype, and a different type of exaggerated behaviour, but the premise is the same. Cohen dresses up funny and says embarrassing things to make straitlaced people cringe.

I don’t think you can read too much into what it says about gay people. Subtle it ain’t. All it says about Cohen’s targets is that some people still aren’t comfortable enough to laugh when a gay man tells a dirty joke.

 
 

“the promos made me wonder: are any gay people offended by that character? Because it seems to me like Cohen’s doing the gay version of blackface.”

Bruno isn’t about homophobia, despite what Bozell may want to believe the character’s homosexuality isn’t the main point of the movie. It’s about the superficiality of celebrity.

It also isn’t the gay version of “blackface”. Blackface is when you present a racial stereotype as though it were real. You make an appeal to your audience’s racism. So Amos and Andy was blackface and people bought into the racism because it confirmed their own bigotry. Both Borat and Bruno deal in hyper exaggerated stereotypes and in the people who hold them but it’s done in order to deconstruct their racist or homophobic views, not to uphold them.

In both his movies Sacha sets up the joke in the first scenes. We see a ridiculous, over the top parody presented as if it were true but we know better. We are in on the joke. Then, much to our amazement, the cartoon character’s of Borat and Bruno go out into the real world where they are treated not as the silly exaggeration they are but as if they were real characters who’s concerns are “Very Serious Matters”. Thus exposing their racism or homophobia, which we get to see and laugh at.

Sacha Baron Cohen is our greatest living philosopher.

 
 

WTF? Is Missah Brent actually encouraging theft of SACRED HOLY intellectual property?

No, he’s going to watch a lot of ghey pr0n and claim it’s the movie if his wife catches him.

 
 

Come on now.. What can be said about the superficiality of celebrity that hasn’t already been said a million times? I really don’t think that’s the point.

If anything, it is more about how people are so used to certain stereotypes, that they have forgotten the stereotypes are jokes, and not real.

Anyone who knows any real gay people would instantly be able to tell the Bruno act is a put on. Anyone that camp is doing it for kicks. And its okay to laugh when someone like that says something outrageous.

 
 

Nice umlaut. I think that makes it “Berrrzel”.

 
 

This film’s full-frontal nudity and gross-out clips are more than a permissive parent bringing a teenager will expect.

 
 

noen said,

Both Borat and Bruno deal in hyper exaggerated stereotypes and in the people who hold them but it’s done in order to deconstruct their racist or homophobic views, not to uphold them.

Astutely summarized.

 
 

Deconstruct my post modern, post post structuralist racism and homophobia you faggoty Libs!

 
 

Deconstruct my post modern, post post structuralist racism and homophobia you faggoty Libs!

Hmmm. Three structural posts…you’ve got a tipi.

 
 

I wonder if Cohen’s next character could be an uptight christian fundie? That might bring in good reviews from the Conservative moviegoers.

 
RUGGED IN MONTANA
 

BRENT BOZELL KEEPS DRINKING FROM THE VAULT COPY OF MY BODILY FLUIDS THAT I STORE IN THE FRIDGE!!!

 
 

Whose fridge?

 
 

Is that Mme. Bözell in the right-hand tub? Because it looks like John Kerry w/ glasses & his hair up.

 
 

Then, much to our amazement, the cartoon character’s of Borat and Bruno go out into the real world where they are treated not as the silly exaggeration they are but as if they were real characters who’s concerns are “Very Serious Matters”.

Full of Win.

Stodgy, analytic Win mind you. But Win.

Cohen’s like the “Office” genre for me, Too Much Like Real Life.

 
Old Man Muffaroo
 

Why shouldn’t he talk about a movie he hasn’t seen? I’ll bet he talks about the Constitution and the Bible too. Not that I’m reading him to find out.

 
 

My two cents: I’m not usually down with comedy that depends on embarrassing unsuspecting people, even dopes who may deserve it. That’s the one thing I dislike about The Daily Show (although I understand many of the people in those skits are in on the joke).

 
 

I thank the Daily Show for doing at least some of the job our corporate press corpse stopped doing back in the 90s (they get worse every year).
~

 
 

Maybe he has the right idea, because I don’t need to read Brent Bozell’s article to know that he’s a complete moron.

 
 

“My two cents: I’m not usually down with comedy that depends on embarrassing unsuspecting people, even dopes who may deserve it. “

I’m kind of in the same boat. So much of it seems like not much more than elaborate, expensive prank phone calling. In Bruno in particular, at least, the scene with the hunters around the campfire, the guys come off as fairly tolerant people, and it’s not until Bruno tries for a second time very late at night to enter the guy’s tent, this time naked, that he gets a severe rebuke. I would have rebuked him too.

 
 

Although “the bears ate all my clothes except these condoms” is a pretty good line.

 
 

Nice umlaut. I think that makes it “Berrrzel”.

Kind of more like “bezel” as pronounced by someone from Boston.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

noen said:

So Amos and Andy was blackface and people bought into the racism because it confirmed their own bigotry.

I think I’ve posted enough on here to show that I’m not a conservative, nor do I play one on TV, so I’ll just ask an honest question and hope I don’t get flamed too badly:

I’ve seen this opinion, and it’s common enough that it’s made Amos and Andy radioactive, but I’ve also seen an opposite opinion from some black observers, and I don’t know if they’re Michael Steele types or what. They say that even though the characters were buffoons (and aren’t most characters in comedy shows buffoons?) that this was the first time people ever saw black doctors, black lawyers, black city councilmen, etc., etc., displayed in an entertainment medium, and it set the stage for the portrayal of black people as just like everybody else and not watermelon-eating, grinning, tapdancing butlers and whatnot. Is there anything to that, or is it just conservative apologia?

As for Brüno, political considerations aside, the commercials make it look excruciating enough that I think I’ll pass.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

I’ll just ask an honest question and hope I don’t get flamed too badly:

I’ve encountered the same thing, so no flamage from me, though as a middle-aged middle-class middle-everything white male from crackersville I don’t consider myself qualified to evaluate the opinion.

As for Brüno, political considerations aside, the commercials make it look excruciating enough that I think I’ll pass.

Agreed. I’m also with Bitter Scribe re: that style of comedy in general. Not so much blackface as like mime, with talking.

 
 

See? Sarah Kopfgobble or whatever her name was a few items back was right. “Brüno” is keeping you middle-aged middle-class man-types out of the cinema this summer.

Although one couldn’t be more middle-aged, manly or formerly middle-class than I am, & I’m not big on cringe comedy either. More points for Ali G., going after actual political/celeb figures, under the “I do it for the kids” bullshit banner.

Not that I don’t hate Real Americans, mind you. But there’s residual sympathy for the just plain dumb somewhere inside.

 
 

A NewsBusters find.

Et cetera.

 
 

Bruno is keeping you middle-aged middle-class man-types out of the cinema this summer.

Saw Star Trek. Plenty of Teh Gay there.

 
 

I did see Borat and pretty quickly lost sympathy for Cohen’s character and what he was trying to do with it comedically.

Ali G was Cohen’s high point. And his character in Talladega Nights was pretty great: “We want what every couple wants – to move to Zurich and invent a currency for dogs and cats to use.” Bruno and Borat were always fairly poor characters in comparison.

I have to admit, having been in London a couple of weeks ago, it’s a bit unnerving how seriously the British press takes Cohen. To most of us here in the States he’s just a slightly more intellectual version of the boys from Jackass, but over there they talk about him like he’s the second coming of Jonathan Swift.

 
thetragicsongwildfire
 

OT but wow, living wills = auschwitz:

…Advocates for Obama’s plan argue that the reason for a national program is that some individuals cannot obtain care. Their solution does not provide care for more people, it simply shifts the right to decide who gets care from the market to the government. Just as many people will be denied care, but executive-branch bureaucrats get to decide which ones. I cannot see this as an improvement.

The holocaust has been predictable for decades. We’re just now beginning to see the pieces of it come together. As can be predicted by anybody familiar with 20th century history, wherever Marxian notions appear, mass deaths are likely to follow.

We are so screwed…

http://www.plumbbobblog.com/?p=5188#respond

 
 

@Battleaxe

Afraid I don’t know enough about the specific Amos and Andy case, but the debate has been fairly regular for awhile in trans and gay circles about the sorts of issues you mention.

Basically, I think there are arguments for what you point out. At the beginning of things, networks and status quo defenders will only allow the most palpatable depictions at first, which tend to be written by non-members and which mostly conform to prevailing stereotypes. See Crying Game on transexuals, Will and Grace on homosexuals, and the like. These can be good as you point out because they ease the (stupids) sheltered members of the dominant group into recognizing very basic aspects of humanity.

However, the same positive experience is counteracted by a very strong negative, by which the stereotypical portrayals also visually cement the stereotypes into those same minds and since many racist or homophobic or transphobic attitudes are fueled by negative emotional responses to specific aspects embodied by stereotypes, it can stoke those conflicts and lead to very real damage.

This is especially true in visual media, because so much of how we perceive our culture is through our visual culture at the time (hence why people can earnestly state that the 50s must have been some perfect idyllic society without being laughed out of town). As a transwoman, we’ll be years at it undoing the cultural baggage of Jerry Springer’s depictions of us as ignorant, violent, makeup smeared prostitutes and home wreckers. That’s one example.

But back on point, I think it mostly comes down to the lack of alternative depiction problem and the group ownership problem. Negative depictions or stereotypical depictions wouldn’t be as much (though there is still historical baggage) of a problem if there are a wealth of alternative depictions of the group depicted in popular culture. The group ownership problem is that a group should have some manner of ownership in how they are depicted. When a dominant group is writing them, playing them, and especially if they are getting them wrong, it takes a level of agency from the group, especially if they have no way to depict themselves. I’m not a history expert in this field, but I suspect at the time, half the problem was the lack of ability for a black man to play himself for a white audience as with the fact that a white man was playing a stereotyped version of themselves.

A lot of the history of X-face occurs when a non-membered actor plays them as a stereotype at a time when the group can’t often get roles especially playing themselves or non-stereotyped versions of themselves (which is indeed still a problem for gay actors and gay roles in Hollywood).

But yeah, that’s the basics I believe,

 
 

at least some of the job our corporate press corpse stopped doing back in the 90s

Like corporate beer: flavorless swill.

Thank the gods for micro-newseries.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

@ Cerberus:

I defer to someone who’s obviously given this a lot more thought than I have. Maybe both approaches make a contribution? The stealth type gets under the shellac of prejudice so the more agressive approach can strip it right off? I don’t know. Good discussion anyway: thanks!

 
 

Ali G was Cohen’s high point. And his character in Talladega Nights was pretty great

Yes, Ali G is my favorite as well. I haven’t seen Talladega Nights. I think part of the problem, at least from the perspective of amusing and entertaining me, is that Cohen’s shtick works better in a shorter, more compact format. It’s a big challenge to maintain the same level of wit and originality over the course of a full-length movie, especially if the gag is basically a recurring one. Parts of the Borat movie I found very funny, but overall I thought it was stale.

 
 

@Battleaxe

Well I think it’s probably a stage thing.

Bad stereotype, but visible may be more tolerated when you just want people to know you exist and don’t eat babies: see the polyamorous community reluctantly supporting Big Love despite its depiction of polygamous misogynist culture because hey, it starts the conversation, right?

I think there’s less tolerance when the group can get some actually non-offensive characterizations out there. There’s often an attitude that the group has outgrown supporting problematic and dangerous stereotypes just to notify of one’s existence.

Oddly enough this often, it seems, coincides with the same period in which the group is just visible enough to be recognized as existing and real, but now feared and hated enough to have targeted hate crimes against them (see trans community turning on talk show presentations of trans when trans-specific hate crimes (those deliberately targeting trans not just for being “gay” but for being trans) started rapidly increasing).

 
 

Though I’m not sure how well that applies to black community around the time of Amos and Andy considering lynching was practically a cottage industry long before those two came on the scene. I suspect the original blackface complaint was more connected to general segregation and invisibility issues wherein blacks were being killed regularly and no one wanted to notice or consider them human, which the whole “they’re dumb” jokes were seeking to reinforce. It’s probably a lot less funny to hear a they so dumb joke about yourselves when that was one of the chief stated reasons for enslaving you and your children for generations.

Still, I suspect similar debates to above posts occurred back then even though that.

 
 

The fact is, black people are dumb. The Bell Curve is proof, but liberals try to censor it. Obama is typical of affirmative action hires, not very smart but articulate, meaning he doesn’t sound like an idiot but what he says makes no sense. Unlike Bush or Palin, who are intelelgent but often attacked by the Left.

I can’t waite to take our country back from the liberal PC socialists usuerpers.

 
 

The fact is, the natural infereieority of black people is proved by the world of scientist J. Phillipe Rushton, who has proved all of this without a doubt. We should be jailing and sterlizaing baclk people, not making them President or professors or doing otehr jobs they aren’t smart enough for.

 
 

The fact is, black people are the most racist people ever. They hate whitey and have a chip on there shoulder. they should just stop being so uppity and work harder, so many of them are lazy

 
 

The fact is, I wish I could just think all the liberals into a cornfield.

 
 

Ask not for whom he who walks behind the rows comes. He comes for you, Ruppert.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

Shit, what’s that smell? Oh yeah!

 
 

This Gary seems to have never met Real Gary

 
 

The fact is, the real rasicm is that a black man can call me a cracker and get an award, but if I call him a negro, which is what he is, the PC police arrest me. Its all the liberal meda fault

 
 

The fact is, why can’t I call a faggot a faggot, since they call each other that, like the negros do.

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

I guess I’m responsible for derailing the thread from prejudice against sexual orientation by using the racial analogy, thus attracting Fake Gary. Sorry, everybody.

 
 

The fact is, universal health care is just taking money from hard working white people and giving it to lazy and careless minorities who aren’t careful and wreck there bodies. And the fags, they got aids from gay sex, why do we have to cure it?

 
 

Worst fake Gary Rupperts evar.

 
 

Why should we have to subsidize Gary’s welfare checks?

 
 

The fact is, shut up, I am a patriotic conservative white American, and I won’t be treated like a minority in the nation My People built. That’s right, My People, when will you multikults get that we are a White Christian Nation?

 
The Kid From Kounty Meath
 

Where’d the Tweets go, Gar Bear? Did a minority take them too?

 
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
 

I can positively guarantee that whatever hellhole state Fake Gary lives in is sucking at least $1.50 out of my pocket for each $.85 I get back.

 
 

The fact is, the left wing liberal bias of the media insures that any coverage of USA is negative and is in favour of France

 
 

The fact is, my twitter account was blocked by the liberal biased admin

 
The Kid From Kounty Meath
 

Also, can we make “The fact is, shut up” our national motto? That’s definitely how I’m going to start answering the phone.

 
Gary Translator
 

The fact is, I forgot my password.

 
 

I can positively guarantee that whatever hellhole state Fake Gary lives in is sucking at least $1.50 out of my pocket for each $.85 I get back.

I disagree:

is in favour of

 
 

The fact is, you done spelled favor rong. That’s how Yurpeen pussies spell it, while here in the Heartland we just spell it phonetically and call anyone who objects a fag while we imagine their strong embrace on a cold Heartland night.

 
 

The fact is, science is of Teh Devil when it’s confirming evolution, man-made global warming and people being born gay, but it’s sacred and indisputable when it can be used to prove I’m better than smarter, better educated black people.

 
 

The fact is, I also have a story about Children of the Corn.

A few stoner girls I know – in fact, the same ones of Shithouse Troll fame – were watching Children of the Corn late one night, after coming home from partying. They came in partway into the movie, and for like an hour or more they sat there imagining this guy walking around holding a rose out in front of himself. “He who walks behind the rose.”

Years later we commemorated this event in a 3-D sculpture comprised of Happy Meal Cabbage Patch figurines wielding giant corndogs crafted from Sculptie, and titled it Children of the Corndog.

 
A Different Jake H.
 

Very interesting comments so far. I’m with the folks here who find most of Baron Cohen’s* stuff to be too cringe-inducing to watch. If you watch the original Ali G Show when it was filmed in the U.K., the character of Bruno makes a lot more sense. Noen wrote:

Bruno isn’t about homophobia, despite what Bozell may want to believe the character’s homosexuality isn’t the main point of the movie. It’s about the superficiality of celebrity.

Close, but more specifically, I’d say that the early Bruno stuff was targeted specifically at the superficiality of the fashion industry, where acting flamboyantly stereotypically “gay” gave him good cover to say really outrageous and offensive things without attracting as much criticism as if he’d said the same things “straight.” I’m thinking in particular of this type of exchange with fashion designers.

Later in the series, Bruno become more of a tool to provoke homophobia, especially in the segments filmed in the U.S., and the original focus of the character was completely lost. I suppose it’s comforting that Baron Cohen had to work pretty hard to get a bigoted reaction from a lot of his victims, but it makes for lousy entertainment.

* Apparently “Baron Cohen” is a hyphenated last name, even though it doesn’t have a hyphen in it. Bozell got that minor detail wrong, but so did everyone here.

 
 

The fact is, I am become my father’s ghost.

My grandchildren will grub stake my landfill to find enough copper to smelt a hoe.

Coca Cola will charge them five dollars for the water to quench it.

Anything to spite a darkie president.

 
 

None of you libruls has the ballz to go to my family gathering. Woo woo.

 
Mickey Kaus" son
 

The fact is, I am become my father’s ghost goat.

 
 

I enjoyed the “Ali G Show”, it was brutally irreverant or irrevently brutal. The “Borat” movie was almost numbing in its onslaught of inanity, with flashes of brilliance (the titty-milk cheese shtick was priceless). I will probably wait for DVD release and check out “Bruno”, but I suspect it may be more of the same. That being said, working out on numbkins with an over-the-top stereotype can be great comedy.

 
 

(commenting in the middle of a bigass thunderstorm, so imagine the intro to “Black Sabbath” playing while you read this)

My missing Bruno isn’t an anti-gay thing – it’s an anti-paying-ten-bucks to-watch-a-movie-once-when-I-can-buy-a-DVD-for-less thing. The idea of dipshits laughing at the wrong times & giving me the stinkeye if/when I laugh at the less obvious jokes is also less than delightful. I’m just way too much of a misanthrope to spend circa two hours in a dark room with a big pile of bald apes unless someone’s paying ME.

I wouldn’t feel particularly deprived if Cohen had packed it in after Ali G – but Bozell is still a twatwaffle. That said,

Children Of The Corndog

is so beautiful it made me cry a little.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

I’m just way too much of a misanthrope to spend circa two hours in a dark room with a big pile of bald apes unless someone’s paying ME.

I find no fault with your argument, being a misanthrope myself.

The only thing that gets me into the theaters is the movies that wouldn’t look right on a small screen. Luckily, a lot of those spectacle-driven movies are simple and loud so people all know how to react and if they jabber, they’re drowned out. Our theater has pre-6 p.m. matinee showings for cheap, and they tend to be poorly attended if they’re not kid shows, so those are just the thing.

 
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
 

Oh, and yes, Children of the Corndog is a thing of beauty.

 
 

Yes, I’m sure it has its funny moments, and some are laugh-out-loud hilarious. I say I’m sure because I really don’t know. I was on my way to the theater when I reversed course. I’m not going to give these slimy people $9.50, or $1.50. Besides, it’s all there on the Internet.

WTF? So Bozell won’t do his job? Can we fire him?

 
 

Herbed Boa with sick Clustered Cabbages

Ingredients:
1 Vice Chancellor Major Xayrgoy’s Outlandish Boa
1 tablespoon Joellen-America Gunujledvipr’s Cabbage
1 Bavarian Swiss cheese
5 sticks General Seduce Victimizing’s Marine Mammal Foot, single-handedly herbed
1 cup sesame
6 teaspoons mustard

The second thing you are going to want to do is let the boa soften. I recommend cutting it into little PENISES to let it soften quicker. Then you are going to roll the Bavarian Swiss cheese with the cabbage out onto a 15 X 10 (roughly) cookie sheet. Bake the dough at 270 Farenheit. YOU MUST LET THIS SETTLE BEFORE PUTTING ANYTHING ON TOP OF IT. Let it cool for at least 1/2 hour. You can chop up that which remains unchopped while waiting for it to cool and make the boa center. For the center, mix the marine mammal and the boa. You can use Mayor Kludplooc Wew’s Sailfish Tail but marine mammal is better for this recipe as you want more of a taste. Mix it with a blender until it is very creamy and there are no lumps. Then add in the sesame to the boa mix. Spread the boa mix over the cooled Bavarian Swiss cheese bottom. I recommend putting it in dollups over the dough, so you can spread it around easier. Try not to touch the Bavarian Swiss cheese bottom as you are spreading it. The reason why the Bavarian Swiss cheese bottom has to be very cool is because otherwise it will start to lift up as you are spreading the Bavarian Swiss cheese. Make sure to get all spots where the Bavarian Swiss cheese shows. After this is done, sprinkle the sesame on top. Don’t try cutting it until you have let it cool in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Before putting it in the refrigerator though, run a knife over the outside of the whole thing, so it is easier to get out later. If you try cutting it into slices before it is cool, the Bavarian Swiss cheese and the boa will run along the knife with you.

 
 

….’the fact is, shutup…’ should be our national motto

Written in Latin, below a crossed pair of Pelicans & a sea badger…

 
 

dead badger, ffs

 
 

If we’re talking about movies, I just watched Sunshine. On the Taco Bell scale of goodess, I give it a gordita out of a possible three-layered burrito.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I say I’m sure because I really don’t know.

This is the definition of modern conservatism.

Hey, Smut Clyde, did you visit my favorite museum?

Boodely doodely, was the Cool Coach represented there?

Why bother with Bruno when the real gotcha comedy of the year is the upcoming flick by the Yes Men?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

FYWP!

 
dim-witted badger
 

fucking pelicans.

they get top billing too now.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

BitTorrent Brent Bözell.

BrenTorrent- each wingnut pulls a small amount of nuttery out of his or her ass, contributing, morsel by morsel, to the torrent of bullshit that constitutes the outpouring of the conservative hive ass.

 
 

If you watch the original Ali G Show when it was filmed in the U.K., the character of Bruno makes a lot more sense.

This.

Really, though, its just that the whole comedy of mortification spiel feels totally played out. It stopped being a carrier for social satire years ago and now its mostly just and excuse for the glorification of throwback douchbaggery on the one hand, or empty exhibitionism on the other.

 
 

The fact is that there’s a movie called The Yes Men Fix The World that’s going to get a bigger-city release in October, and I recommend it whole-heartedly as opposed to Bruno, which made me laugh but also made me cringe. I think Baron Cohen’s gay-face bit does find out the gay-haters where they lurk, insisting that their worst prejudices are true so that they can’t hide behind any mask of reasonability. But The Yes Men go after more tempting targets: credulous corporate lackeys.And they dropped Dow’s stock 3 points with their mischief.
The fact also is that I really wish that a certain smelly old troll would stop using that particular locution, and start talking in infinitives, like the alien Grocchi race in Keith Laumer’s Retief novels. “To raise your appendages, luckless Terry [racist slang for a terran]. To admit you have been outwitted once again by the superior intellect of the Grocchi!!”

 
 

The fact is, I fear for my country. Taken over by the left and minorites. We will take our country back, starting here in the Heartland.

 
 

The fact is, I fear for my country. Taken over by the left and minorites. We will take our country back, starting here in the Heartland.

Oh Gary, you lost the Hearland? Poor dear…

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Taken over by the left and minorites.

Yeah, you can’t throw a brick in this country without hitting a friar!

Best Gary/fake Gary EVAR!

 
 

The fact is, in the night, I hear ’em talk,
The coldest story ever told,
Somewhere far along this road,
I lost my soul
Starting here in the Heartland.

 
 

and start talking in infinitives, like the alien Grocchi race in Keith Laumer’s Retief novels.

You know, I’ve always liked grocchi with a bit of fresh pesto, it’s really satisfying.

Also, gargoyles.

 
 

Several days too late for this, but anyway:

When Neapolitan goons
Gouge your eyes out with spoons
That’s Camorra!

 
Dragon-King Wangchuck
 

Several days too late for this
It’s never too late.

When GM won’t say
“Sell those cars to Teh Ghey”
That’s Camaro!

 
 

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