[lbo-talk] Re: Borat

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 6 14:21:48 PST 2006


But our times are so much worse than those innocent, Laurel-and-Hardy days when Swift penned A Modest Proposal. . . .

--- BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:


> BORAT is a superb film and is not an example of
> cringe humour whatsoever.


>> Starting with Andy Kaufman, extending through Tom
>> Green, refined via
>> Ricky Gervais and now reaching its apotheosis via
>> Sacha Baron Cohen, the
>> whole premise of showcasing loutishness as a
>> supposed satiric commentary
>> on loutishness strikes me as funny-peculiar, not
>> funny-ha-ha.
>
> So much for Jonathan Swift.
>
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resister
>
>
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