This is where I ended up at. I appreciate it, and it is funny, nut then depressing.
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Who Is America? (Sacha Baron Cohen show) |OT| Why Is America?
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This is where I ended up at. I appreciate it, and it is funny, nut then depressing.
Oh my god that last segment.. our poor fucking country, people proudly racist against muslims and blacks.
Also it's 2018 and this guy's schtick was funny before the social media wave where literally everyone now has a video of them tricking someone.
It's kinda hard to find any humor in this at this point since they literally double down and have fully accepted their abhorance as normal.
Very lazily done show. He needs new ideas.
It's kinda hard to find any humor in this at this point since they literally double down and have fully accepted their abhorance as normal.
Very lazily done show. He needs new ideas.
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You are certainly entitled to your opinion. I disagree completely on everything you just said.
Show isn't for you. That's cool.
Must have missed this last week. "Provocative language" quite an abstraction!
Humor? Nah this is informative tv, exposing racists and monsters for what they are.
Lmao, i know you and your posts. Its old and tired. Jig is up.
I haven't watched this shoe yet, but I am glad he is doing this type of show again.
I think that the Ali G show was so much better than any scripted film he has done.
Cohen plays characters so extreme that people instinctively react to them, one way or another. It's an interesting way to shed light on people, but this also feels very, very targeted. I'll see if that makes it better or worse!
Show is tough to watch but, IMO, necessary. As frightening as it is, this is what a large group of people in the country find to be acceptable viewpoints and behavior. I'm all for any show that gets these people on video for as long as possible while they spout their abhorrent viewpoints (hopefully forever)
Literally all anyone needs to say about Widdle Puppy as a poster.
He's doing a public service exposing these cockroaches for the people they actually are. The fact they had to get out in front of it says it all! Abhorrent people. Expose the lot.
Honestly I don't post enough to know who are the troll characters on this board unfortunately.
This show is fucking great. People got exposed.
Nope, still fun to make fun of. The house was on fire long before Trump.
Nope, still fun to make fun of. The house was on fire long before Trump.
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It's going to get some of these people fired, like Spencer.
He should have been done when he told a black lady she might "go missing" if she took down a confederate statue.
Spencer got primaried out so he won't be able to keep his seat. Not that it'd stop him from moving somewhere else in politics.
In reality what should be telling the lack of consequence the assholes from last week got for supporting the Kinderguardian program.
The Mosque bit was so damn funny. How he was congratulating the guy for pointing out how lucky they were to have black people in their town? I was literally crying. I can see why some might be over the same tired Trump jokes everyone is doing but he seems to be taking a broader approach and hopefully won't fall into that trap.
The liberal stereotype didn't even go that far. Like I feel like he was going to go further but then he got the response from the crowd.
"Oh I didn't mean to imply anybody here was racist."
"I am. I'm racist against Muslims."
Sasha looks a bit speechless.
I mean what do you even say to that.
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I just saw the second episode and I found it even better than the first. The most boring character from last episode (the liberal) was the best of this episode.
That Spencer segment at the beginning is unreal. He's got that good old fashioned baby boomer prejudice. Rich, complex, full-bodied prejudice. The kind of prejudice that sticks to your ribs.
I mean, what kind of provincial doof associates "konnichiwa" and "sushi" with Chinese people? The kind that's curiously uninhibited about racist caricature, I guess.
Also, did you see the naughty smile pulling at his cheeks when he got to yell the N-word? I did. I can't believe this guy made such a fool of himself with a camera rolling. But hey, at least he didn't leave empty handed. He learned the invincible self-defense technique of charging terrorists with his bared buttocks while screaming "America!"
It's not like humor has a robust historical role in politically fraught circumstances or anything. Yup, Cohen's basically just another Youtuber who makes prank videos!
I mean, what kind of provincial doof associates "konnichiwa" and "sushi" with Chinese people? The kind that's curiously uninhibited about racist caricature, I guess.
Also, did you see the naughty smile pulling at his cheeks when he got to yell the N-word? I did. I can't believe this guy made such a fool of himself with a camera rolling. But hey, at least he didn't leave empty handed. He learned the invincible self-defense technique of charging terrorists with his bared buttocks while screaming "America!"
Yeah, it's pretty lazy of a talented character actor to invite influential people to show their asses (sometimes literally!) in service of justice and clear-headedness, in a time when the leader of the free world communicates exclusively through lies, bluster, and playground-level abuse.
It's not like humor has a robust historical role in politically fraught circumstances or anything. Yup, Cohen's basically just another Youtuber who makes prank videos!
holy shit when he said the mosque was funded by the saudi government and the clinton foundation I about fucking died.
also I refuse to believe the first segment is real, for my own sanity
https://twitter.com/Ike_Saul/status...on-who-is-america_us_5b5545b1e4b0de86f48e5a5e
also I refuse to believe the first segment is real, for my own sanity
https://twitter.com/Ike_Saul/status...on-who-is-america_us_5b5545b1e4b0de86f48e5a5e
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this episode was amazing
holy shit, that georgia lawmaker. he didn't need much prodding at all to gleefully make incredibly vacuous stereotypes of asians, and throw out slurs like "sand [n-word]" left and right, and then literally showing his ass to scare away isis terrorists that would be afraid of becoming gay
the town hall segment at the end was incredible. as in very hard to believe it could be real. but i guess it was. it was apparently reported on by local news (i'm giving a google cache link because the site itself blocks EU visitors because of GDPR lmao) at the time of filming (the paper chose to highlight the possibility of a mosque being built in their headline). at least, from that article, it sounds like there were some somewhat sane people in that meeting:
holy shit, that georgia lawmaker. he didn't need much prodding at all to gleefully make incredibly vacuous stereotypes of asians, and throw out slurs like "sand [n-word]" left and right, and then literally showing his ass to scare away isis terrorists that would be afraid of becoming gay
the town hall segment at the end was incredible. as in very hard to believe it could be real. but i guess it was. it was apparently reported on by local news (i'm giving a google cache link because the site itself blocks EU visitors because of GDPR lmao) at the time of filming (the paper chose to highlight the possibility of a mosque being built in their headline). at least, from that article, it sounds like there were some somewhat sane people in that meeting:
but jeeze, usa is a truly fucked up country if you have communities where such racial hatred is so commonplace
The absolute cheek of them having that last bit with yer man stating that he's an elected representative after the awful shit he's just done directly before they show the state's logo indicating they got funding or other help with the production of the show.
Absolutely brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah that Spencer guy is something else. He was talking Japanese mixed with multiple Asian languages. A sane person would think that there is something wrong going on but apparently not.
This should have been episode 1. Much stronger (outside of the NRA bit from episode 1).
Duping the guy into yelling the n-word at the top of his lungs was something else entirely. But the Mosque bit was especially stunning in that he literally only had to say the word "mosque" for the racists to go haywire on him.
Duping the guy into yelling the n-word at the top of his lungs was something else entirely. But the Mosque bit was especially stunning in that he literally only had to say the word "mosque" for the racists to go haywire on him.
He was yelling so much dumb shit. Hong Kong (not China, but at least debatable), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Sushi (yep), and indeed "konnichiwa".
They don't want black people around, either. They just "tolerate" them.
Crazy that this guy is apart from the government. Hell, you could even say it for most of the ones in the government as of right now.
Atleast before they hid their hateful and bigoted views and beliefs. What an embarrassment
Any TV show, movie or video game that has the Georgia peach logo means that project got a 10% tax credit: http://www.georgia.org/industries/entertainment/georgia-film-tv-production/production-incentives/
Also I've watched both episodes of Who is America?
This show is a mixture of comedy and depression for me. It's pretty wacky that Cohen is still able to dupe politicians and celebrities into fake interviews and getting them to expose themselves on a national TV show.
The Jason Spencer segment of episode 2 has been making the rounds in the news: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...on-who-is-america_us_5b5545b1e4b0de86f48e5a5e
This show is a mixture of comedy and depression for me. It's pretty wacky that Cohen is still able to dupe politicians and celebrities into fake interviews and getting them to expose themselves on a national TV show.
The Jason Spencer segment of episode 2 has been making the rounds in the news: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...on-who-is-america_us_5b5545b1e4b0de86f48e5a5e
"What was your favorite war?"
Seriously how did any of the interviewee not realize they were getting duped?
Lol when he mentions the Clinton foundation is partly funding the mosque you can hear someone saying "the nerve of that woman"...
Good segment showed that good old racism will always trump the economic anxieties of rural america... Being offered investment of 380m but you know "as soon as you mentioned mosque you ruined it!!!"
Good segment showed that good old racism will always trump the economic anxieties of rural america... Being offered investment of 380m but you know "as soon as you mentioned mosque you ruined it!!!"
An Arizona newspaper called "Who is America?" a reality show, a quote from a person who was interviewed: " "I think they were trying to piss us off, just for reactions," said an attendee who asked not to be named." Well it worked!!!!: http://www.mohavedailynews.com/news...cle_1a4eb65a-f115-11e7-99ba-876f77c9a6fd.html
First ep. was not good at all. Almost stopped watching it. Even do i love s.b cohens early stuff, especially Alli G's bits in the states.
Man did the second half of the second ep. pick it up loved it created the kind of situations i could watch for hours.
Man did the second half of the second ep. pick it up loved it created the kind of situations i could watch for hours.