One steretype i didnt find funny

[one eyed jack]

I'm all up for a good wheeze at blacks, whites, scots, irish and english...and pretty much most people....So why didnt I find this funny....I felt a bit offended and I aint even Kazakstani! I dont know why...Maybe I think taking the piss out of poor people is just not cricket...No that can be funny too I dunno why.

But I cant think of anything worse than a 2 hour movie of this guy who might only be funny for 5 minutes in a skit on a show. I wait for the reviews as I might see it and end up giggling my arse off...Humans eh? Complex

Or I'm just a boring old fart.

[tommy dickfingers]

i hope the film is as good as the trailer and i'm going to watch it.

[mart]

Couldn't view it but isn't it the AliG guy?
What I've seen of the character on TV seems like he was taking the piss out of the Brits.......lol

Mart

[tommy dickfingers]

its borat going to america,google the trailer

[Bob Singleton]

one eyed jack wrote:

>
>
> I'm all up for a good wheeze at blacks, whites, scots, irish
> and english...and pretty much most people....So why didnt I
> find this funny....I felt a bit offended and I aint even
> Kazakstani! I dont know why...Maybe I think taking the piss
> out of poor people is just not cricket...No that can be funny
> too I dunno why.
>
> But I cant think of anything worse than a 2 hour movie of this
> guy who might only be funny for 5 minutes in a skit on a show.
> I wait for the reviews as I might see it and end up giggling my
> arse off...Humans eh? Complex
>
> Or I'm just a boring old fart.
>
>


Actually, Terry, I think the joke is on the people who believe the "stereotype".

I've seen quite a few different trailers for "Borat the Movie" or whatever it'll be called. The joke is mostly on the stupid Americans he meets who really believe the crap he comes out with about "his" country and it's traditions. They never once question a word he says. The funniest bit is the dinner party with the po-faced uptight Hamptons-style people!

The film is deliberately offensive. Those with a brain will laugh at the jokes while at the same time questioning their own prejudices. Those without a brain will either just laugh because everyone else is, or just not get it at all.

[one eyed jack]

Not so clear that came across in the trailer Bob but you maybe right. If you are that is a truly sad indictment towards the americans.

To be honest I'm found some of his stuff funny on tv it remains to be seen if it will hold up as a 2 hour movie, his Alig G movie sucked major dick (american vernacular for: It was crap).

I didnt like it for the same reasons I mentioned above. Some things should just remain on tv because when it translates to screen it invariably subcribes to the 3 acts of a storyline which by the 3rd act is some kind of Benny Hill rush to the church or car chase nonsense just to tie a story up and it just doesnt work when its been done a zillion times already.

[Bob Singleton]

I agree that both Ali G and Borat are probably best consumed in 2-3 minute sketches rather than as a 2 hour film.

[c.j.jaxxon]

I really never thought stereotypes were funny. I always put my head in my hands when something embarrassing showed up.

[Officer Dibble]

"I would suspect humour is illegal in that country - probably on religious grounds."

Ha, ha, ha, chortle, chortle, chortle... Well, at least WE can still have a grin about it - for now. But we best be on our guard. There many middleclass PC folk out there who would like introduce Sharia law into parliament - just so they can make Muslim asylum seekers, migrants and exiled Jihadists feel at home. You know - in case the poor dears were feeling a little hard done by - what with our miserly social security handouts, free accommodation, transport, education and healthcare. Yes, it?s a tough old life in Britain. There must be many an underprivileged asylum seeker pining for their cosy straw huts back in the old desert.



Officer Dibble