[lbo-talk] Borat

Tayssir John Gabbour tjg at pentaside.org
Mon Nov 6 13:06:26 PST 2006


I'm not a big fan of Borat either, but I really do like hearing about the skill which goes into it -- Sacha Cohen's 8 min NPR interview was good. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3613548

His in-character interview with Colmes was terrible and schlocky though.

Tayssir

Carl Remick wrote:

>> From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>

>> ... Again, a subjective thing. But as an older, accomplished humorist

>> once told me, write comedy for the world you live in, not the one you

>> fantasize about. As much as I love old American comedy, an abundance

>> of which I own and treasure, we are not living in Laurel and Hardy

>> times. Slipping on a banana peel today makes sense only if the clown

>> falls into a mass grave instead of on his/her own ass. Borat uses

>> broad comedy to coax out the madness in Americans.

>

> Whatever. "Borat" sounds like a misfire to me. Some contemporary

> examples of film satire are very funny indeed, e.g., "Harold & Kumar Go

> to White Castle" -- a/k/a "Harold and Kumar get the Munchies" or

> "American High."

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_&_Kumar_Go_to_White_Castle>



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