OT: Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) at it Again

[vancejohnson82]

For his follow up to Borat, the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (spelling might be wrong) is using his homosexual character “Bruno” to expose America’s homophobia.

Apparently he put posters, online postings and started a website promoting a mixed martial arts match at a large Arkansas bar, and said there would be $1 beers there. After checking IDs and having the patrons sign a release the ruse began. After 3 lackluster amateur bouts two combatants, one of them Cohen, entered the ring. After a few moments of fake fighting the two men ripped off each others clothes and began kissing each others chests and necks.

Apparently the Arkansans were NOT HAPPY. Some threw chairs and most of the $1 beers ended up in the ring.

Haha…that character is definitely the worst he does, but with stunts like this it could be funny…..

Check out the www.thesmokinggun.com to get follow up angry postings from people who were there and to see the fake promotional posters and stuff

[Dagmar]

It must suck to be Sacha Baron Cohen...

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/08/14/fisher_narrowweb__300x408,0.jpg

[no-pseudo-fan]

It must suck to be Sacha Baron Cohen...

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/08/14/fisher_narrowweb__300x408,0.jpg

That chick, any chick, is not hot enough for me to kiss a dude.

[orinjkrush]

With Cohen, she probably is a dude.
those thingeys upfront are just distractors.

[TheReverend]

Hilarious, imo

[cutthemdown]

The funniest thing was Cohen getting wacked by some dude he insulted in NY while acting like Borat.

I read he was so scared he curled into a little ball and the dude from the show House had to rescue him.

[Los Broncos]

Good stuff.

[bronco militia]

http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL637/2498345/6660043/322274873.jpg

[Paladin]

She has nice headlights......

[Arkansas Bronco]

Depends on where in Arkansas that happened because in some places he may have been killed (or seriously beaten) for a stunt like that.

[vancejohnson82]

hey Arkansas Bronco....i think it was in Fort Pierce or something like that....and another show was in Ternazean????

don't know what those areas are like but I'm sure there was some serious police presence

[bronco militia]

Depends on where in Arkansas that happened because in some places he may have been killed (or seriously beaten) for a stunt like that.

the irony of this post

Ha!

[Arkansas Bronco]

hey Arkansas Bronco....i think it was in Fort Pierce or something like that....and another show was in Ternazean????

don't know what those areas are like but I'm sure there was some serious police presence

Couldnt find either one of em. And neither of the names rings a bell.

[vancejohnson82]

JULY 8--Lured by $1 beer and the prospect of "hot chicks" and "hardcore fights," thousands of Arkansans were duped last month into appearing as extras in comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest staged mayhem. Cohen and his confederates organized cage fighting programs on consecutive days in Texarkana and Fort Smith. Both cards ended with two male grapplers (one was identified as "Straight Dave" and wore camouflage) tearing each other's clothes off and, while in underwear, kissing down their opponent's chest. This man-on-man action triggered Fort Smith fans to throw chairs and beer at the ring, according to one cop present at the city's Convention Center. [Click here (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0708081bruno3.html) and here (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0708081bruno4.html) to read bulletin board messages posted in early-June by miffed mixed martial arts fans who attended one of Cohen's Arkansas productions.] Cohen is currently filming a follow-up, of sorts, to his smash 2006 film featuring Borat, his fictional Kazakh journalist. The new film stars another of Cohen's creations, Bruno, a gay Austrian journalist who favors mesh t-shirts and interviews subjects about fashion and entertainment. The June 5 Texarkana promotion was adverstised as "Red, White, and Blood." The June 6 matches in Fort Smith were dubbed "Blue Collar Brawlin'" as seen in the below poster. Ads on Craigslist--like this one (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0708081bruno2.html)--noted that attendees had to be over 21 and suggested that fans arrive early "for $1 BEERS!" Cohen & Co. underwrote the cost of beer, which usually sells for $4 at the Fort Smith facility. "Blue Collar Brawlin'" drew about 1500 fans, who were greeted by signs stating that the event was being filmed. Attendees were also not allowed in with cameras or cell phones and some were asked to sign releases. The "Blue Collar Brawlin'" web site (fortsmithfight.com) was registered two weeks before the event in the name of "Peto Philer" of Algeria. The site, which remains live but has been stripped of all content, appears to be currently hosted on servers in Los Angeles. (4 pages)

[Arkansas Bronco]

Fort Smith is basically Oklahoma and not a redneck area. Texarkana has far more rednecks.

[cutthemdown]

the irony of this post

Ha!

Which is why he picked Arkansas.

I wonder if he will ever pull something like this in say.........Iran. Now that would be cool.

[Dagmar]

The funniest thing was Cohen getting wacked by some dude he insulted in NY while acting like Borat.

I read he was so scared he curled into a little ball and the dude from the show House had to rescue him.

He was walking down the street with Hugh Laurie (House) not dressed as Borat after a taping of SNL and some guy (who was drunk) attacked him with no provocation and Hugh Laurie pulled the guy off of Sacha Cohen.

The guy must be so tough to randomly attack a celebrity walking down the street. Lets hope next time Borat is killed, or the terrorists will have won! USA! USA!!!

http://ninesisters.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/get_a_brain_morans.jpg

[vancejohnson82]

Fort Smith is basically Oklahoma and not a redneck area. Texarkana has far more rednecks.


damn Oklahomans....poser rednecks

haha

[cutthemdown]

He was walking down the street with Hugh Laurie (House) not dressed as Borat after a taping of SNL and some guy (who was drunk) attacked him with no provocation and Hugh Laurie pulled the guy off of Sacha Cohen.

The guy must be so tough to randomly attack a celebrity walking down the street. Lets hope next time Borat is killed, or the terrorists will have won! USA! USA!!!

http://ninesisters.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/get_a_brain_morans.jpg

no Cohen asked the guy if he could buy his clothes so he could make sex with them. That's what really happened.

[cutthemdown]

BORAT star Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego.
He approached the man and said: “I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it.”

But the bystander didn’t see the joke. He took one look at Cohen and punched him in the face.

The funnyman — known for his Borat catchphrase “Jagshemash!” — yelled for help but was slugged again and again.

He was rescued by actor pal Hugh Laurie who had been on his way to a New York bar with Cohen.

Laurie rushed to help and pushed the man away as Cohen struggled to his feet. A pal of Cohen said: “Sacha couldn’t resist playing the fool as Borat, but picked on the wrong person.

“I guess this guy thought he was being attacked by someone unstable and lashed out. Sacha is very lucky he didn’t get a much worse beating.”

The incident took place after Laurie and Cohen appeared on the US TV show Saturday Night Live. The Brit comics were on their way to a late dinner when Laurie suggested they visit a bar in Manhattan.

Laurie, 47, told friends he feared Cohen was going to get badly beaten up. Luckily, 35-year-old Cohen did not receive any lasting scars.

Studio chiefs have warned Cohen to avoid pretending to be the spoof Kazakhstan TV reporter on the streets. Since the film was launched he has only appeared in character while promoting the movie on American television shows.



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[broncofan2438]

great

[cutthemdown]

I think him getting beat up is still the funniest **** he's done. I mean that's what he's going for and that's what he got. That's what makes America so great. Go looking for it and you will probably find it.

My other point is Cohen is obviously a wimp and punk that doesn't even fight back when he get's slapped around. Ahhhhhh yes very unamerican, very european.

[Orange_Beard]

I love this guy.

[Dagmar]

I think him getting beat up is still the funniest **** he's done. I mean that's what he's going for and that's what he got. That's what makes America so great. Go looking for it and you will probably find it.

My other point is Cohen is obviously a wimp and punk that doesn't even fight back when he get's slapped around. Ahhhhhh yes very unamerican, very european.

I may have been very wrong in my initial post but :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

An ignorant ass, very American, very un-european.

[Florida_Bronco]

Great, now we'll have to suffer through another poorly done movie that thinks it's funny.

[bronco militia]

Great, now we'll have to suffer through another poorly done movie that thinks it's funny.

:vermeil: :vermeil: :vermeil: :vermeil: :vermeil: :vermeil:

[vancejohnson82]

it's people like Florida Bronco not getting it/not enjoying it that makes it great....

actually you don't need to "sit through" any "poorly done" movie...just don't watch it

or you could go watch it and just complain the whole time....thats productive

[Flex Gunmetal]

I think him getting beat up is still the funniest **** he's done. I mean that's what he's going for and that's what he got. That's what makes America so great. Go looking for it and you will probably find it.

My other point is Cohen is obviously a wimp and punk that doesn't even fight back when he get's slapped around. Ahhhhhh yes very unamerican, very european.

Yes, because going around punching people without physical provocation makes you tough.
Oops, I meant stupid. Normally that lands you in jail.

[cutthemdown]

Yes, because going around punching people without physical provocation makes you tough.
Oops, I meant stupid. Normally that lands you in jail.

IMO going up to a stranger and asking to make sex to his clothes is asking for trouble. By the way it's not the punching people that makes you tough. Tough is how you react and respond to said punch.

[cutthemdown]

I may have been very wrong in my initial post but :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

An ignorant ass, very American, very un-european.

may have been? nope you were flat out wrong.

[cutthemdown]

Yes, because going around punching people without physical provocation makes you tough.
Oops, I meant stupid. Normally that lands you in jail.

I said it was funny not legal

[watermock]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0708081bruno3.html

[ColoradoDarin]

I have never got SBC, his Ali G thing was really bad from the little I saw of it, IMO Borat didn't look much better. I can't see going to this movie either. So to sum up, he's not funny (my subjective opinion, no need to reply "ZOMG he's teh best !!11!!one!!1leleven!!") and this is about as much time as I've ever spent reading about him.

[CBF1]

I still laugh everytime I hear his line from Borat after laying a deep kiss on the blonde girl, " This is my sister.............. She is the #4 prostitute in all of Kazakhstan", then said girl holds up a trophy. Comedy genius.

[Flex Gunmetal]

IMO going up to a stranger and asking to make sex to his clothes is asking for trouble. By the way it's not the punching people that makes you tough. Tough is how you react and respond to said punch.

Wat?
Of course it's asking for trouble, but his reaction was grounds for assault.

I said it was funny not legal
You said it was what makes america great. ROFL!

[SouthStndJunkie]

'Borat' was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

I don't have a problem that some people did not like it/think it was funny, but I have seen it several times and always laugh my ass off.

'Do not try shrink me, gypsy, I serious.'

[SouthStndJunkie]

'Sometime my sister, she show her vazhïn to my brother Bilo and say "You will never get this you will never get it la la la la la la." He behind his cage. He cries, he cries and everybody laughs. She goes "You never get this." But one time he break cage and he "get this" and then we all laugh. High five!'

[Los Broncos]

Most of his lines are great from Borat, I look up the sound boards once in a while for a laugh.

[ohiobronco2]

It must suck to be Sacha Baron Cohen...

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/08/14/fisher_narrowweb__300x408,0.jpg

Wow. The crazy chick from Wedding Crashers. Nice.

[Florida_Bronco]

it's people like Florida Bronco not getting it/not enjoying it that makes it great....

actually you don't need to "sit through" any "poorly done" movie...just don't watch it

or you could go watch it and just complain the whole time....thats productive

What's there to get about it? Some guy has cameras following him around acting like an idiot. This is the same kind of crap comedy that Will Ferrell does, just on a smaller scale.

[SonOfLe-loLang]

What's there to get about it? Some guy has cameras following him around acting like an idiot. This is the same kind of crap comedy that Will Ferrell does, just on a smaller scale.

Actually, i find his ability to both stay in character and react comedically on the spot to be amazing. His show (which was eventually aired on HBO) is fantastic. I really enjoyed the Borat movie (the Ali G movie was garbage, but these characters wont work in fictional settings). He takes chances and, through everything, stays in character. Its impressive. And Sacha is no idiot, really smart guy actually

[cutthemdown]

Wat?
Of course it's asking for trouble, but his reaction was grounds for assault.


You said it was what makes america great. ROFL!

there you go again being wrong.

I said he got slapped around and did nothing....how un-American and how European that is. I didn't say it makes America great.

[Arkie]

http://www.bigfanboy.com/pages/reviews/filmreviews/2006/borat/rodeo.jpg
"My name a Borat. I come a from Kazakhstan. Can I say first, we support your war of terror!
(applause)
I hope President Bush drinks the blood of every man, woman, and child in Iraq!"
(confusion and some applause)
Then the crowd turns on him as he sings the Kazakh national anthem.




from the local paper...

Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition
A man purportedly from Kazakhstan launched into a diatribe instead of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
By Laurence Hammack




No one knows for sure who he was, that Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat who was supposed to sing the national anthem at a rodeo Friday night in the Salem Civic Center.

But he sure shook up this town before leaving in a hurry.

Introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America. A film crew was with him, doing some sort of documentary. And he wanted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show his appreciation, the announcer told the crowd.

Speaking in broken English, the mysterious man first told the decidedly pro-American crowd - it was a rodeo, of all things, in Salem, of all places - that he supported the war on terrorism.

"I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards," he said, according to Brett Sharp of Star Country WSLC, who was also on stage that night as a media sponsor of the rodeo.

An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd.

"And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq," he continued, according to Robynn Jaymes, who co-hosts a morning radio show with Sharp and was also among the stunned observers.

The crowd's reaction was loud enough for John Saunders, the civic center's assistant director, to hear from the front office. "It was a restless kind of booing," Saunders said.

Then the man took off his hat and sang what he said was his native national anthem. He then told the crowd to be seated, put his hat back on, and launched into a butchered version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that ended with the words "your home in the grave," Sharp said.

By then, a restless crowd had turned downright nasty.

"If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him," Jaymes said. "People were booing him, flipping him off."

Rodeo producer Bobby Rowe, who by then had figured out that he was the victim of some kind of hoax, had the man escorted out of the civic center. Rowe told him that he and his film friends had best leave right then.

"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," said Rowe, who has been bringing his Imperial Rodeo Productions to Salem for years.

As his wife, Lenore, put it: "It's a wonder one of these cowboys didn't go out there and rope him up."

Saunders agreed. "I was concerned for his personal safety," he said.

Once the film crew members and their star realized the severity of the situation, Bobby Rowe said, "they loaded up the van and they screeched out of there."

After apologizing to the crowd for being duped, Rowe was left to wonder who pulled such a hoax, and why. Months ago, he was approached by someone from One America, a California-based film company that was reportedly doing a documentary on a Russian immigrant, Rowe said.

The outfit asked if Sagdiyev could sing the national anthem at the rodeo in Salem. After listening to a tape, Rowe said sure.

By Saturday afternoon, Jaymes had observed that Sagdiyev looked a lot like the title character of "Da Ali G Show," a Home Box Office production that often catches its guests and audiences unaware and then records their reaction to "shock value" material such as Friday night's performance.

The show has a character named Borat from Kazakhstan, according to the HBO Web site.

Jaymes said she recalls that one of the five cameras was turned on her and others on stage, as if to catch their reactions.

"I looked at Brett and said, 'Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of a bad "Saturday Night Live" episode?'" Jaymes said.

As Rowe prepared Saturday for a second night of the rodeo, he was playing it safe on who would sing the national anthem.

"It'll be a tape," he said.

[Los Broncos]

http://www.bigfanboy.com/pages/reviews/filmreviews/2006/borat/rodeo.jpg
"My name a Borat. I come a from Kazakhstan. Can I say first, we support your war of terror!
(applause)
I hope President Bush drinks the blood of every man, woman, and child in Iraq!"
(confusion and some applause)
Then the crowd turns on him as he sings the Kazakh national anthem.




from the local paper...

Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition
A man purportedly from Kazakhstan launched into a diatribe instead of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
By Laurence Hammack




No one knows for sure who he was, that Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat who was supposed to sing the national anthem at a rodeo Friday night in the Salem Civic Center.

But he sure shook up this town before leaving in a hurry.

Introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America. A film crew was with him, doing some sort of documentary. And he wanted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show his appreciation, the announcer told the crowd.

Speaking in broken English, the mysterious man first told the decidedly pro-American crowd - it was a rodeo, of all things, in Salem, of all places - that he supported the war on terrorism.

"I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards," he said, according to Brett Sharp of Star Country WSLC, who was also on stage that night as a media sponsor of the rodeo.

An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd.

"And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq," he continued, according to Robynn Jaymes, who co-hosts a morning radio show with Sharp and was also among the stunned observers.

The crowd's reaction was loud enough for John Saunders, the civic center's assistant director, to hear from the front office. "It was a restless kind of booing," Saunders said.

Then the man took off his hat and sang what he said was his native national anthem. He then told the crowd to be seated, put his hat back on, and launched into a butchered version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that ended with the words "your home in the grave," Sharp said.

By then, a restless crowd had turned downright nasty.

"If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him," Jaymes said. "People were booing him, flipping him off."

Rodeo producer Bobby Rowe, who by then had figured out that he was the victim of some kind of hoax, had the man escorted out of the civic center. Rowe told him that he and his film friends had best leave right then.

"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," said Rowe, who has been bringing his Imperial Rodeo Productions to Salem for years.

As his wife, Lenore, put it: "It's a wonder one of these cowboys didn't go out there and rope him up."

Saunders agreed. "I was concerned for his personal safety," he said.

Once the film crew members and their star realized the severity of the situation, Bobby Rowe said, "they loaded up the van and they screeched out of there."

After apologizing to the crowd for being duped, Rowe was left to wonder who pulled such a hoax, and why. Months ago, he was approached by someone from One America, a California-based film company that was reportedly doing a documentary on a Russian immigrant, Rowe said.

The outfit asked if Sagdiyev could sing the national anthem at the rodeo in Salem. After listening to a tape, Rowe said sure.

By Saturday afternoon, Jaymes had observed that Sagdiyev looked a lot like the title character of "Da Ali G Show," a Home Box Office production that often catches its guests and audiences unaware and then records their reaction to "shock value" material such as Friday night's performance.

The show has a character named Borat from Kazakhstan, according to the HBO Web site.

Jaymes said she recalls that one of the five cameras was turned on her and others on stage, as if to catch their reactions.

"I looked at Brett and said, 'Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of a bad "Saturday Night Live" episode?'" Jaymes said.

As Rowe prepared Saturday for a second night of the rodeo, he was playing it safe on who would sing the national anthem.

"It'll be a tape," he said.

He's lucky they didn't string him up by his balls on this bit.

[Hogan11]

Cohen, much like his Borat movie, is medicore at best. Watching him dupe religious nuts and frat boys were the best parts, but pardon me for not wanting to see him chase and wrestle around with a fat guy naked.

[Dagmar]

there you go again being wrong.

I said he got slapped around and did nothing....how un-American and how European that is. I didn't say it makes America great.

I mean that's what he's going for and that's what he got. That's what makes America so great.

USA! USA!