If anybody has a YouTube Sacha Baron Cohen on the Daily Show just now, pass it on and I will put it up. I really don’t know how to explain the gag about testes, Kazakh elections, the president and Barbara Bush without simply showing it.
Much obliged.
***Update***
So Comedy Central has embargoed YouTube. That sucks, but Stewart puts his stuff online so fast that it might amount to more or less the same thing. Go here and click on “Thursday, part 4 part 3.” That is all.
Steve
I thought the Daily Show wasn’t going to be on YouTube any more.
Jimitha
President Bush has suspended habeas corpus from his testicles.
Kit
Steve,
According to Slashdot, Viacom has authorized YouTube to allow clips of their shows on there without surrendering the rights or the ability to take clips down in the future. Just FYI.
The Disenfranchised Voter
In reference to the Borat movie, I was able to attend a free screening on Wednesday night and holy shit I haven’t laughed that much or that hard in a long, long time.
I believe the movie will go down as a comedy classic. I have only seen one movie in a theater twice but I wouldn’t be surprised if I end up paying to see this a second time.
It’s that good.
Pooh
Borat likes pie…
matt s
Tim-
Not to mention the “spitting”….that was my favorite part of the interview
Dave
I have it Tivoed, to bad tivo doesn’t have a Mac client that allows file transfers…grr…
Why did I give up MythTV for Tivo?
Pb
Dave,
Looking for this? (if not, oh well, I know less than nothing about TiVo’s stuff)
Pb
And, ah, TivoTool looks nifty too.
MNPundit
Sullivan has it on his blog.
Filthy McNasty
Yeah! Silly copyright laws.
Remfin
It will probably be up on the Comedy Central website tomorrow. They’ve been putting this week’s (at least) up in 4/5 parts each, no clue if that was just for the Ohio State trip or if it’s going to be their new thing
Remfin
Yup it’s up. Daily Show: Thursday, 11/1 Pt. 3
Of course the website probably rejects you if you aren’t from the US, can’t help you there
Edmund Dantes
Yeah. Comedy Central went after Google as soon as they bought Youtube. Now all their stuff is off Youtube along with some other companies. They promised to put up episodes of the Daily Show on their own website to make up for it.
Keith
Borat’s about to be on Fox n Friends. This should be interesting. Just too bad E.D. “The Ice Queen” Hill isn’t on FnF any more. I’ve love to see her get legit upset & try to lecture Borat. Maybe they’ll use the ketchup packet/blood lady.
Keith
BTW: It’s part 3, not part 4
Ted
Do they still have that middle-aged (fake) blonde guy who totally sets off my gaydar? I never understood why they had him.
Digital Amish
Yeah, the Barbara bit was funny but it really wasn’t that original (my wife has made similar remarks but without the facade of admiration). But Borats’ reaction to finding out that Stewart was Jewish had us laughing to tears.
ThymeZone
Fans of the Da Ali G Show over here, for years. Cohen is truly a comedy god. The Ali G interviews are surely the greatest comedy ever captured on film or tape.
Borat made me laugh so hard on Letterman the other night that I literally had tears rolling down my face.
RSA
I find Borat pretty funny; this morning I was wondering whether anyone else has played that kind of virulent bigotry so effectively for laughs? I can think of Godfrey Cambridge in Watermelon Man, and maybe some more recent material by Carlos Mencia, but otherwise I’m drawing a blank. . .
capelza
He sure upset Kazakhstan. I read about their reactions and then one night while watching TV, after this dust up, Kazakhstan had an ad for their country.
Sad thing was..the ad was not that well done, a bit amatuerish. Not quite to “Boratness”, but a little ouch.
Dave
Pb, Thanks that TivoTool looks like it’s just what I’m looking for.
skip
Hereto apertaining:
From the Nietzsche- Mencken web site:
ABE FOXMAN ON BORAT
Fresh from squashing the Tony Judt speech at the Polish Legation in New York, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman threw himself today into the controversy surrounding the faux-Moslem comedian Borat. Foxman expressed “profound misgivings” about the “propriety of having an Israeli-born Jew portray a Moslem in an insulting and defamatory manner.” Professing to speak as the “voice of painful experience,” Foxman spoke in anguished tones:
“The Jewish people know something about defamation through humor, whether it be in anti-Semitic cartoons or Shakespearean comedies. Defamation, however ‘skillful’ and ‘funny’ is no joke, just as racism is no joke.”
Foxman was especially uneasy with the portrayal being done by an Israeli-born Jew:
“I have been accused of being hypersensitive to ethnic slurs, but one needn’t be the head of the ADL to deplore the spectacle being made in Hollywood over a Jewish comedian who impersonates Moslems in a manner that depicts an entire people as imbeciles and bigots and wins applause for it.”
Nor was Foxman happy over the national media’s embrace of Borat’s brand of what Foxman labels, “defamatory and belittling stereotypes”:
“Even if CNN and Jon Stewart think it is funny, it isn’t funny when a blood libel is perpetrated against the entire people of Kazakhstan. And, wink-nudge, everyone knows the Kazaks are just a stand-in for Arabs in general.”
Foxman insists it was a “no-brainer to step forward,” despite the ADL’s usual prime focus on defamation of Jews:
“I asked myself, ‘suppose we had an Arab on national TV networks doing a hilariously funny impersonation of a Jew but in a derogatory manner, say as greedy or rude?’ I’d do my job and he wouldn’t be on TV very long. Indeed, with the JDL like it is, he might not be alive very long. I’d prefer it never come to that.”
For his part, Jon Stewart said, he wouldn’t hesitate to put such a Arab comedian on his show, but he doubted such an actor could “impersonate a preposterous Jew as effectively as Foxman does.”
— Max Scherz Unsinn
over it
I am another fan of the Da Ali G Show.
I read somewhere that a movie featuring Bruno, the way gay fashion reporter, is next in line. Probably easier to form a story line around him than around Ali G.
Personally, I like the Ali G character better…his interviews really are hysterical. My favorites are the one he held with Dr. C. Everett Koop, and the one he held with Buzz Aldrin. It will be hard to capture interviews as hilarious as the early ones now that Sacha has become a recognizable figure.
I can’t wait to see the Borat flick. :)
ThymeZone
Yes, the familiarity effect will make it a little harder, but you have to figure that the people he was spearing are not the sorts who would watch Da Ali G show in the first place. There aren’t words to describe the layers of funny that he was doing. How he managed to keep from cracking up and screaming with hysterical laughter at the reactions of his victims, I will never know. That alone is worth an Emmy.
Some of his “guests” caught on right away … Pat Buchanan was especially amused, and gracious about it. Which surprised me because he can be such a sourpuss.
Buy this and die laughing.
Pooh
ZING!
RSA
But this is a poor analogy. Borat’s funny because his views of Jews are so over the top. Better would be an Arab impersonating a Jew who expressed comparable views of Arabs, if that could be made funny (keeping in mind that Borat’s “Jews” are pretty cartoonish villains, only very vaguely stereotypically Jewish).
ImJohnGalt
Hmph. This hadn’t occurred to me at all. I knew Borat was anti-semitic, but hadn’t once extended his persona to all the actual people of Kazakhstan.
capelza
Kazakhs aren’t Arab anyway…
JoeTx
ok, that guy is just plain creepy
Shochu John
It seems unlikely, given his commments, that Foxman actually watched what he purports to criticise. In the movie, Borat explicitly denies that he, along with Kazakhs in general, is Muslim. Borat, quite obviously, has no bearing or comment on the actual nation of Kazakhstan or its people. Cohen could really have chosen any former Soviet backwater, be it nominally Muslim or nominally Christian, and it would not substantially alter the Borat character.
chefrad
Oddly, I took the Foxman thing to be fake, a parody/ironic jab at no one standing up to what is defamation—albeit funny in a sophomoric way. I mean, would the the ADL directly confirm that the JDL offs people?
And,”Borat’s” disclaimers notwithstanding, his act is anti-muslim (—stan) and that the real Foxman should have attacked it on precisely the grounds the ersatz one does.
This is the equivalent of a white guy in blackface lampooining blacks. But THAT would never be permitted. Face it, muslims are the darkies of the 21st century US media.