Interesting story. That wedding party was oblivious to how seating their privilege in the bar would affect its regulars.

One person's celebrating is another person's flaunting, depending upon which way privilege tips. I think homobigots consider Pride parades to be flaunting because it wasn't that long ago that gay citizens weren't safe if they were out. Of course, in many, many places in America, it remains that way, as the violent homobigots maintain the once ubiquitous old order in their communities. However, they see gay people parading in cities and those celebrations are too distant (and on foreign turf) for them to intervene, so they settle for accusations of "flaunting," while some associate plans to make their wedding, a chunk of legally encoded privilege, as loud and ostentatious as possible.

What? Did I read that right? No, not in my experience. Quite the opposite. Sure, they want to live the life they want to, to marry if they want and have kids if they want, but the notion that "normal" is hetero is exactly what they're fighting. The point is that human bonding of whatever type is not hetero in itself.

this unfunny dbag will make fun of everybody, except for himself (a hardcore anti-muslim zionist)

is pretty well worn and taken care of by the rest of the jewish comedians out there.

weddings. I like them and bride's family has to pay. Nothing wrong with that but too much wedding-cake (and vodka) bad for tummy and wedding night. I could tell you, bigguns....But I won't because you might take it amiss. I like very much American women like you who do not require wedding.

The notion that "normal" is EXCLUSIVELY hetero, that it assumes heterosexality, is what they're fighting.

a feel-good free pass, I suppose?

the guy is an unt!

'this unfunny dbag will make fun of everybody, except for himself (a hardcore anti-muslim zionist')

On of the funniest scenes in the movie is when he walks in 'orthodox jewish drag' through Israel and nearly gets beaten up by some orthodox jews - And poor Ballsee - WHAT ind the world makes you think (like David) - that this film should promote a greater understanding of gay lives or gay issues?! Didn't I tell you that he nearly brought peace to the Neareast - and got a whole baby for an I-phone - If you can imagine!

If you are from an ex-Soviet country, the flatly and despicably racist "Borat" tells you all you need to know about what to expect from Bruno. Cohen is maligning yet another group of people to fill his pockets. The person whose bigotry he is really exposing is his own. And now I'm off to sell my sister into prostitution...

cry me a god damned river! It's not like regular old "white america" has ever been tarnished by unfair portrayals here and abroad!

If he was making fun OF Jews you'd be rolling in the aisles.

Cohen stopped social satire when he left England. The UK Da Ali G Show segments with the boorish, moronic stereotype of the underclass as wannabe-rapper interviewing high class British elite scholars and assorted “Sir’s” were in a small way a commentary on how the upper-class viewed the lower-class. But any commentary goes out of the window when you’re clearly going out of your way to bait people. For the most part it was just Cohen trying to see how many dick-jokes he could work in before they said something. But the HBO remodel of the show removed even that tiny amount of social commentary. Unless you think Sascha-As-Ali trying to rile up conservative guests by talking about how much premarital sex he has counts as social commentary.

The Borat character was much funnier, but again not really a social commentary on xenophobia, anti-semitism or misogyny since most guests didn’t take the bait and those that did Cohen had to work for for 5 minutes to get a 15 second soundbyte of them finally agreeing with his racist viewpoint, probably just to get him to shut up. It was funny if you took it as it was: the hilarity of how far you have to push some people with annoyance before they stop being polite. But it exposed nothing about “the darkside of America” as his biggest fans liked to push it as.

Bruno was never, ever funny. It doesn’t work as a commentary of how uncomfortable straight people feel being around gay people since like with Borat he always has to work incredibly hard to get a split-second of the reaction he wants. It could have worked as a commentary on the ridiculousness of celebrity gossip reporters and celebrity-worshippers, but it rarely goes in that direction. Instead it’s just “How many exaggerated gay stereotypes can I throw at you before I get a reaction?” And ironically, if Bruno on television and in the film shows us anything, it’s that Americans are nearly as homophobic as believed since he never gets the reactions he wants.

did you know that "Schindler's List" is the most popular movie in the Gaza Strip?

So much projection onto this guy. Why does it have to be socially relevant at all? He is a brilliant comedic actor. For all three characters, his facial expressions and body language are often all it takes to get me going . . . yes in a lot of ways it is similar to the charred cork minstrel shows, but so what? People used to find those funny, and while we think they are socially repugnant NOW, it was not merely the poking fun at blacks that attracted people. It was the slapstick and the yuk yukking at superstitious types. If you ever read the old Popeye comics, they were very much the same. . . he was terrified of "evil spiriks" and constantly getting into brawls.

Bruno by the way is not ripping on the gay community as a whole, he is ripping on the tiny subculture of wealthy fashionistas and other celebs whose lifestyle he has taken to a logical extreme. It is NOT THAT HARD to wrap your head around. Christ.