Did it occur to you that this is EXACTLY the kind of article that SBC was hoping would be written about Bruno?

You're a very silly man. And, not in a good way.

I have never seen SBC, so I really can't say whether he is funny or not. I do think the world has gotten too politically correct!

I grew up in a time, when kids were spanked if they misbehaved. Likewise I went to a Catholic school, where the Nuns and Brothers beat education into us! There were jokes about Blacks, Germans, Jews, Poles, Italians etc etc. They existed to get a laugh out of people. People then, could laugh at themselves. Somehow that is gone, in todays society. This generation is simply too sensitive. Grow up folks!

Getting back to SBC. I think he is out to get laughs, at any cost. To put it in NewYorkese, it's simply "his shtick" to poke fun at our foibles. I honestly don't think he is out to point a finger at any group in particular. He is simply trying to get laughs!

I love Salon, but David Rakoff has got to go. He is the worst of your hires. I beg Salon readers to go to Slate and read Dennis Lim. That guy knows his gay film comedy.

For the most part, "Borat" showed how generous, tolerant and hospitable Americans can be when are confronted with an obnoxious visitor from another country. The most prominent legal action against Cohen and the film was filed by one of the frat boys who got drunk and said some things he wish he hadn't. (The funniest scene in the movie, because the drunk, rich kids were a great target.)

Even after the film came out, the college guy's MySpace page said he enjoyed "gettin' drunk and havin' a good time" - and showed several photos of the guy holding beverages.

These films couldn't be made if people weren't so anxious to expose themselves to the world. Millions want to be on TV or in a movie, and are willing to make fools of themselves in the process. Folks are tricked into thinking Cohen's films are documentaries, and they sign away their dignity.

That said, I commend my fellow Americans (like the hunters) who held back as "Bruno" tried to goad them into displaying bigotry.

I live in the South, and I can assure visitors that the great majority of us are tolerant, welcoming people. I know many conservative men and women who believe in "live and let live." Even after a couple of drinks, they don't express hatred for those unlike themselves. They are also savvy enough not to sign releases to appear in a fake documentary because they know a bit of clever editing could make them look ridiculous.

What the hell are you on?

Do I have to score some "loveboat" to parse your words into thoughts?

Could you have your legal guardians rewrite those posts for you?

Assuming they are not all as tranked or anesthetized up as you appear to be.

Schizophrenia may be horrible, but the drugs used to treat it are even worse.

Once you are off the meds, maybe your posts will start making sense in about 3 months once they are out of your system.

Good luck and Godspeed my fishy "K".

Ketamine is essentially legal analogue of PCP. If that it being legal is something that you believe is safe to use - it isn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine

Then again, it may not be drugs, it may just be schizophrenia.

K?

a prostitute deserves to be taken to latrine", E

smeralda is loverly language coach but you are verray angry people all the time. Black Sea too nice for you: Dead Sea in Israel full of salt and you can float while washing out the mouth.

I like West verray much and here in l'Aquila some fine crumpet. Music and cocktails in evening and British from FO like drinks called "Fat Frog" and "Slippery Nipple". My English language teacher who speaks Australian too tells me Brits have much rumpy-pumpy when they get to the Motherland, Russia. All looking at picture of Presdent Obama staring at fine bottom of woman with hair (on head) reaching to waist (or waste). He enjoys view but doesn't know it's Chinese spy Mr. Nanki Piu Pu in disguise as Magda Carta. Verray fine head of hair but I think is wig although bottom is superb from calisthenic exercises. I am indeed hoping to meet Italian Minister for Equal Opportunities, Signorina Mara Cartagna, as she used to be naked model before Italian Prime Minister saw her as big brain. Hope I can woo charming lady but Mr. Nanki Piu Pu (now Magda Carta though that should be Magna) is mad at George Clooney who pinched bottom. Not good actor but was foony in Laurel & Hardy. He had mustache then and hard hat.

Mr. Baron Cohen should go to Italy where nobody would call him "hijo de puta" because THEY speak Italian. No, Mr. Cohen is "hidalgo", excellent family. Bad people here do not like him because you are all Austrians too just like Herr Fritzel.

So Rakoff outs himself as a grump in an opus that is perhaps longer than the Bruno screenplay.

how is this offensive, stupid jew funny?

Can't wait to see this flick. so tired of fags that take themselves so seriously. great that a straight brit can make being a cock freak fun again.

Let Cohen go there, set one up for a scene in a film and then mock, insult and taunt a bunch of Han Chinese in the audience. Problem solved.

What problem? Please expound.

Do you think he travels around in the U.S. without a security detail? I think I covered that in my penultimate post.

Oh, and is an ostentatious openly gay guy "mocking, insulting, and taunting" to you? Inquiring minds want to know. But if you had ever watched the show, you'd know that he never overtly and maliciously taunts anybody.

As another note to the critics here: I think it's fascinating to some of us to see just how far SBC can go; how much he can get away with, and how much other westerners will LET him get away with - even as he poses as an innocent/ignorant/oblivious fictional character and they're none the wiser.