I have actually found most of what i have seen of Bruno to be offensive. Last thing i need is to be compared to is him. I already have to deal with real Bozos like Perez Hilton. Whats with all these waked out movies? we have had The Zohan, Borat, and now Bruno? I mean really a lot of them are movies making fun of foreigners. I just don't see the hilarity in them.

I've had people offer me free samples in a Whole Foods, but I've never had someone tell me about their bleached anus.

If this is happening to you regularly, perhaps you should try the Whole Foods in the next town over instead.

Just another exploytation vehicle for someone over imprssed with what they think is talent. Humor is less than sophmoric in both of his presentations. Using the vehicle of film attempting to extract gold from the masses. In short cows produce a more viable product after consuming grass and I do not mean milk. I grow tired of watching presentations like this as they actually do more damage to my brain than staring into space. In short another Piece of shit from someone with a camera and no talent foisted onto the large screen. One can only hope it cost more to make than it returns and that this series will now die

Oh and someone compared him to Peter Sellers, you are warped

Sellers had a true talent.

rude and crude and possibly offensive.

so, you assume i like stuff like "legally blonde" because i am not offended by SBC and i think that sarah silverman's comedy makes people uncomfortable. oh, i see, i hurt your feeling by saying that "family guy" and "south park" suck. well, hate to break it to you, but these are weak ass shows. satire for simple minded suburbanites.

True story- my girlfriend and I watched approximately 45 minutes of Borat before removing it from the player and watching ALL of "Jackass-The Movie" because we found its humor more sophisticated.

From Ali G on down the line, Ive always felt SBC was over-rated.

...and this is something the P.C. crowd just doesn't seem to get. I'm a gay man, but I can take a joke. What really riles me is when I hear people telling me whether or not I "should" be offended. Or even asking. I can figure out if I'm offended or not, and why without it being dictated.

I haven't seen Brüno yet and it will probably be a while before it gets to my part of the world, so I can't say much about the movie obviously. But to be honest, I was more disappointed with the Bruno character in "Da Ali G Show" than I was offended. I just found him to be a very one-dimensional character, it was the same gag over and over again. Bruno finds people typically considered conservative or macho, and them proceeds to make them uncommfortable. But even with some of the wingnuts we have in the U.S., you have to reach pretty far. His interview of football players for example, and injecting gay innuendo was not as much a reflection on their homophobia as it was a reaction to absurd suggestions. You didn't have to be very homophobic to feel that something was just not right. His night at a barn dance in Georgia was similar; the "rednecks" he was trying to send up reacted gracefully and as politely as anyone could be expected to under the circumstances. The wife of the man who was teaching him to dance really didn't deserve the treatment he gave her in the name of humor.

The session with the "gay cure" people does sound like it's worth seeing though, and they deserve no mercy whatsoever! :)

There's a scene in The Bruce Lee Story where Bruce reacts to seeing that Mickey Rooney caricature. It's heartbreaking. I see the same look on my Chinese American husband's face when he sees a bucktoothed, squint-eyed 'Chinaman' in any movie or TV show (whether played by a Caucasian 'in drag' or Asian cast specificlly for that look.) It's shame. It's the red-cheeked, burning feeling that 'that's how they see us.' There are a million ways white folks can be made fun of - as bible thumpers/rednecks/greasers/trophy wives/nerdy accountants with pants pulled up too high. But white folks are rarely mocked simply for having lighter skin and double-lidded eyes.

So yeah. It's offensive and makes me want to smack the crap out of the producers.

I would love to see this jerk make fun of Jews.

That I would pay to watch.

I saw the movie, and I'll tell you that it's WAY over the top. Of course that was probably "necessary" to get people to perk up and buy tickets. But this isn't the comparatively subtle Bruno from the TV show. He seems to have lost practice with the accent too. Disappointing. Don't even get me started on poor Ron Paul.

But on the subject of the show, while Bruno was my least favorite character as well, he did devote equal time to vapid fashionistas and valueless(often effeminate in speech and demeanor - as opposed to "macho")media moths who'd say or eagerly agree with any number of ridiculous things to get some air time and inflate their own undeserved egos.

Then, of course there was the episode to which you referred where he went to the south. Tell me: does a gay cheerleader on the Alabama side deserve threats of physical harm? The fun there was in watching someone make people uncomfortable.

Anyway, Ali-G was always my favorite character. Part of that is probably due to the fact that it's easy to believe that members of the disaffected youth culture in Britain and here really could be that clueless. I just saw his interview with Newt Gingrich last night. Hilarious.

I see some conflict with the gay movement. When trying to push a live-and-let-live attitude to those not so open to gays or are downright homophobic in order to further cultural progress and acceptance, Bruno takes gay to the extreme and is very in-your-face, as mentioned earlier. If people view this extreme as typical for gays, especially is pursuit of Ron Paul scene, how is that supporting a live-and-let-live from the gay side? It's like using this character says, we're going to be in your face pushing you, and I just see the others pushing back. If you are pushing a live-and-let-live attitude, I think this movie doesn't support that meme...although it is funny. I think they tried to hard.