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I went to see Borat in the theaters on blind faith in the reviews gushing about what that movie "revealed" about America. It revealed nothing other than that taking advantage of the poor and underprivileged can be very easy if you have a film crew and millions of dollars following you around. If I were interested in seeing a slightly different version of Borat's armless Romanian guy whose plight is supposed to tickle my funny bone, maybe I'd try out Bruno.
The central problem is that Cohen is a coward. He subjected his audience to an annoyingly long nude male wrestling match in Borat, but he was the only participant whose genitals were blacked out. Makin' porn, even "funny" porn, Mr. Cohen, generally requires nudity.
No comedian cred.
