May 23 2007Baron Cohen Shooting Bruno
"People from L.A. are so genuine, don't you think?"
The guy who gets to bone Isla Fisher was spotted in character (as Bruno) at the Foreign Trade Association luncheon at the Omni Hotel in downtown Los Angeles yesterday.
“Clearly, 99 percent of the people had no idea who he was,” the spy wrote to defamer. “Sacha had about 10 people with him. Three people running around with releases to sign, 4 camera people, a blonde haired producer watching the whole thing and a frazzled old dude with string salt and pepper hair checking the sound at the other end of the ballroom.”
Come on guys, there's no excuse not to know all of the Ali G characters by now - don't you people get HBO? To me the most shocking part of those South Carolinian douchebags suing over the first movie was that there were college students out there willing to admit they'd never heard of Borat.
Anyway, for the sake of good entertainment, thank God there are stupid people out there to make fun of. And babies to kick. Now that's a party!
Reader Comments
1. carlos - May 23, 2007 12:35 PM
well bruno was not my number one baron character it was either borat or ali g but if he's gonna be pushing the envelope like he did in the borat film even farther with this character this could be the next cohen film that will not only be talked about but will probably be called contraversial if he does it just right.
2. Vince - May 23, 2007 12:41 PM
Yeah, I liked Bruno, but much more as some sort of sociological experiment than as a comedy, persay. Sacha's got brass ones, for sure.
3. Mac - May 23, 2007 2:43 PM
The way this really succeeds is if he tries to pull this off in the deep, deep south. But he most likely wouldn't last a day.
4. Praz - May 23, 2007 4:34 PM
Did someone mention kicking toddlers?
5. ash - May 23, 2007 5:01 PM
i love sacha, and all things sacha. i also go to usc with those douchebags. it pisses me off that these guys get usc in the news for being idiots. please know they are not representative of ALL the students at usc. case in point: me. i'm neither an idiot or a douche...just those damn frat boys.
6. Vince - May 24, 2007 3:46 PM
Ash - I think most intelligent people know that. But it's funny that people are always sensitive to that. Like when I lived in Australia, people there hated Steve Irwin because they were worried Americans would think all Australians were like that - which I thought was silly, but at the same time found myself horrified every time I saw them watching Jerry Springer (which, sadly, was a lot) for the same reasons.