It seems Ron Paul didn’t particularly care. I haven’t seen anything about him calling Cohen a queer yet.
[quote]eigieinhamr wrote:
It seems Ron Paul didn’t particularly care. I haven’t seen anything about him calling Cohen a queer yet.[/quote]
Yeah, according to one news report his PR people actually laughed it off, or something like that.
[quote]stokedporcupine8 wrote:
eigieinhamr wrote:
It seems Ron Paul didn’t particularly care. I haven’t seen anything about him calling Cohen a queer yet.
Yeah, according to one news report his PR people actually laughed it off, or something like that. [/quote]
I don’t know why people got worked up in the first place. Ron Paul clearly has nothing against homosexuals, he seems a really easy going guy, and in the interview I saw he basically had no idea what it was about but didn’t seem to be reacting as some idiots on this site do.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
stokedporcupine8 wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
tom63 wrote:
For years there have been comedy skits and such based on buffoonery, such as the three stooges. I don’t get to offended by it personally, even if a conservative is targeted.
That is all well and good…
Still, it is lowbrow humor and if you find it funny then you are lowbrow.
You mean educated and sophisticated people cannot find humor in unsophisticated things? That’s seems wrong to me. Surely even the brightest of us must tune out and relax once in awhile.
Yes I laughed a lot at most of the stuff in Borat, and I also laugh at ‘FAIL’ pictures and youtube videos of people being injured while doing harebrained stunts.
I don’t laugh at other people being hurt or embarrassed…whether it is intended to be funny or not. Maybe I am just not smart enough to get why it is supposed to be funny.
And no, I am not as uptight as it might seem. I just have different sense of humor I guess.[/quote]
I can appreciate everybody having different senses of humor. Many people aren’t provoked to laugh at the inappropriate, myself, it just kills me. Show me a time not to laugh and I’m laughing. My best memories are laughing in church, even though I got a hand upside the head. Am I primitive for it? Maybe. Does it mean I’m not intelligent. Hell no.
Comedy is always best when it borders on tragedy. They are so closely related. The most humorous people in this world have always been the most sad and tragic. Why? Because we can feel their pain, the way they express it is golden. Disguised. So everybody can feel pain and not have the embarrassment of admitting it. Hide your pain behind comedy. Do it well, and you will have the world by the tail.
Normally I don’t like “borat” but some of the videos posted here were pertty funny. “The Jew down the Well” had to be a setup, right?
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Regular Gonzalez wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
stokedporcupine wrote:
I still think that many of you guys wouldn’t so vehemently score Cohen if his stuff was directed against liberals.
Yes, I would because lowbrow humor is lowbrow humor no mater the ideology at which it is directed.
The people who find Cohen funny are not your typical fellows who travel in intellectual circles.
Buffoonery…helping to sort out the slave class from the rest of us.
Are you the guy who couldn’t get your head around the gameshow briefcase question a few months back?
Actually, I was the one who cracked it for everyone else, three different times, three different ways.[/quote]
I hope you’re joking
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
Normally I don’t like “borat” but some of the videos posted here were pertty funny. “The Jew down the Well” had to be a setup, right?
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s legit.
My favourite audience member is the woman who does the Jew horns.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
stokedporcupine wrote:
I still think that many of you guys wouldn’t so vehemently score Cohen if his stuff was directed against liberals.
Yes, I would because lowbrow humor is lowbrow humor no mater the ideology at which it is directed.
The people who find Cohen funny are not your typical fellows who travel in intellectual circles.
Buffoonery…helping to sort out the slave class from the rest of us.[/quote]
Wrong. Borat was not buffoonery. It was sharp social commentary presented in the form of satire, highlighting the bigotry, hypocrisy, and ignorance that is alive and well in America today. All packaged in an entertaining (and sometimes downright hilarious) form. I think you’re the one who doesn’t get it. Don’t know that I can say the same thing for Bruno, though I haven’t seen it yet. From what I hear, the “ambushes” this time around are mostly staged, thus not saying anything about anything.
Similar satire exposing the hypocrisy, prejudices, and ridiculousness of arch-liberals would be similarly enlightening and similarly hilarious.