The Dictator

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Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie. It looks, well...



For all he was heralded as a kind of comic genius after Borat, he seems pretty darn limited. Kardashian jokes, that'll ensure it lasts the tests of time.
 
Its basically just been going downhill his entire career hasn't it? Ali G was quite good, Borat was funnyish, Bruno was a pile of shit, I wonder how this'll fare out.
 
Eh it got a couple of laughs out of me. Though I do get the impression that the film itself will be shit with a few laughs chucked in.
 
I've never understood why people find him funny at all.

Each to their own and all that, but for me Ali G stopped being funny after a very very small number of his original 5 minute spots, never mind when he had his own show, film, dvds etc, and Borat and Bruno were painfully unfunny.
 
Silva said:
Its basically just been going downhill his entire career hasn't it? Ali G was quite good, Borat was funnyish, Bruno was a pile of shit, I wonder how this'll fare out.
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Oddly Bruno was his earliest character. Or at least I think he was. I remember seeing little 5 minute skits of it on the Paramount Comedy channel inbetween programmes back in the late 90s. Leigh Francis (the twat behind Keith Lemon) also did some (his own skits, that is...they were still shit then)

This looks fecking terrible though.
 
It looks crap. Borat was the type of film that you sat in the cinema giggling thinking 'this is brilliant!' but then when you watch it at home by yourself it doesn't even raise a smile.

Ali G just capitalised on the theme of the time. The show was quite funny in fairness, film was gash though.
 
He's just dumbed down his humour as he's gotten more popular, some of the Borat and Ali G stuff when it was on Channel 4 was genius, now he's just catering for the mainstream with toilet humour.
 
To be honest, looking back some of the Ali G stuff was a bit shit, it was just a genius character, and at exactly the right time. Being a tall, lanky jew with a fake arab name telling people he was black and getting them to believe him was inspired. But a lot of the actual comedy behind it was a bit so/so. I personally thought Borat was his best character. Both of them relied on his hutzpah and the reactions of real people as he did and said ridiculous things. This looks very scripted, and as such, removing a lot of what made his stuff so "relavent" (cringe)
 
Mockney said:
To be honest, looking back some of the Ali G stuff was a bit shit, it was just a genius character, and at exactly the right time. Being a tall, lanky jew with a fake arab name telling people he was black and getting them to believe him was inspired. But a lot of the actual comedy behind it was a bit so/so. I personally thought Borat was his best character. Both of them relied on his hutzpah and the reactions of real people as he did and said ridiculous things. This looks very scripted, and as such, removing a lot of what made his stuff so "relavent" (cringe)
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The Borat film was awful, the character in the Ali G show was great, but these things rarely translate well into features.

This Dictator shit looks like it was shit all the way through though
 
I wonder what he'd be like if you stripped away the characters and catch-phrases. Has he done any stand-up or anything like that?
 
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