Brüno......

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COMIC Sacha Baron Cohen tricked an Israeli spy and a Palestinian academic in an outrageous new prank.

Cohen, 36, referred to militant Arab group Hamas as “hummus”.
And he said the Middle East conflict wasn’t nearly as bad as Hollywood superstars Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston fighting over Brad Pitt.

Cohen – famous for hilarious characters Ali G and Borat – was disguised as Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion presenter.

He told Yossi Alpher – a former top spy with Israeli secret service Mossad – and Palestinian academic Ghassam Khalib they were filming a youth documentary.

Cohen – dressed in black leather and studs – barked out daft questions in a loud Austrian accent.

The comedian ridiculed militant group Hamas, saying: “What’s the connection between a political movement and food. Why hummus?” One of the guests politely explained: “Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political movement. Hummus is a food.”

But Cohen went on: “Ya, but why hummus? Yesterday I threw away my pitta bread because it was dripping hummus. And it’s too high in carbohydrates.”


The character also asked: “Why don’t you settle the conflict with a time share on the land?”

Other questions were “When will you Jews return the pyramids?” and “Why can’t Jews and Hindus get along?”

He also commented: “Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina is worse.”

The victims only twigged when Cohen made them hold hands for a crazy song about the war.

Alpher said: “We knew something ludicrous was happening but couldn’t quite figure it out.”

The sketch – filmed in Jerusalem’s Old City – will appear in Cohen’s new movie, due out next May.

How people don't guess who he is yet is crazy.

lmao, wow. i cant wait to see this.

[Brian Braddock]

Yeah - everything so far suggests that the movies gonna top Borat in terms of cringeworthy moments.

[Asteroid-Man]

Well I better prepare myself for all his little fanboys that run around imitating everything he says and does.

[Brian Braddock]

Erm, ok.............

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Gay Kiss Causes Crowd Riot At Suspected Baron Cohen ‘Bruno’ Prank

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of “Borat” fame.

“We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived,” said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.

Matt Labov, a Los Angeles-based publicist for Baron Cohen, said he had no comment Monday about the faked fights. One of Baron Cohen’s movies is due out next year.
The day after the June 5 Texarkana bout, Fort Smith’s convention center hosted “Blue Collar Brawlin.’” Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named “Straight Dave” would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.

The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell in the film “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”

Producers said “there would be a romantic embrace,” Holland said. “They said it was kind of to essentially make fun, poke fun at wrestling _ two guys rolling around on the floor, all sweaty.”

An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600’s reaction as the two men “went right up to the line” of the city’s morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.

The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. “It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”

Holland said it took officers about 45 minutes to clear the convention center, as the two actors sprinted away through a specially set-aside tunnel

This sounds hilarious

[Prison Mike]

that's hilarious. I can't wait for this movie. I'm sure there'll be lawsuits like there were for Borat.

[GhostPoet]

Wow...that made me just about want to gouge my eyes out.

[Dark Donnie]

Tue, 18 November 2008
Bruno Crashes NBC’s Medium

Shooting of NBC’s Medium was temporarily shut down on Nov. 7 when Bruno aka Sacha Baron Cohen kept interrupting a tense courtroom scene involving series star Patricia Arquette.

“No one had a clue it was Sacha playing Bruno,” a Medium insider told Ausiello. “It’s amazing he was able to infiltrate the set and pull this off.”

“It remains unclear whether Cohen (or one of his accomplices) snuck a video camera onto the Medium set to capture all of the tomfoolery, or whether he’s relying on the show’s producer, Paramount, to voluntarily hand over the unused footage. (The scene ended up being re-shot.),” Ausiello reported.

The day before the election, Bruno crashed a Los Angeles rally in support of Proposition 8, the measure to ban gay marriage approved by Californians this month.

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/11...s-nbcs-medium/

[Zacky]

Must … resist … urge … to … wax … hyperbolically. … Failure … appears … imminent. A jaw-on-the-floor wow. Sacha Baron Cohen has done it again, delivering another WMD slam dunk of hysterically subversive mocku-comedy.

Universal Pictures screened 22 minutes of “Brüno” during the SXSW Fantastic Fest. In the movie, Cohen assumes the character of the flamboyantly gay Austrian TV reporter from his famed “Da Ali G Show,” and from what we could tell from those glorious and deliciously wrong-yet-oh-so-right clips, Cohen has pushed the button to push all buttons. The stakes are higher, and Cohen seems to be flirting with a more dangerous powder keg of humor, the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

“Brüno” somehow makes “Borat” look like child’s play, upping the ante on Cohen’s aggressively offensive, squirm-worthy hilarity. With a recorded introduction by Cohen himself, the transgressive, outrageous and, at times, stunning footage was broken up into three sections: baby interviews, a fake Jerry Springer-like Texas-based talk show and the Ultimate Fighting Championship face-off (more on these in a sec). In describing each scene, the comedian revealed much of the film’s plot. He also noted that all the gut-busting scenes were being shown in a longer form than they would be in the final theatrical version (i.e. with more painfully prolonged exposure to uncomfortably uproarious funniness than doctors would normally recommend).

From what we can recall — our minds being blown and all — Cohen’s Brüno character is fired from his job for blowing an Italian fashion-show segment. Distraught, he goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming the “most famous Austrian star since Adolf Hitler.” As already rumored, in an attempt to fit in with Tinseltown celebrities, Brüno and his boyfriend/assistant David adopt a baby from Africa, which Brüno carries around to appear chic and trendy (a move that seems intended to dis the Madonnas of the world). At some point in the film, Brüno and David split up and he loses custody of the child. Depressed, he tries to reinvent himself as the most aggressively heterosexual man in America to regain custody.

1. The baby interviews: Brüno wants to create an elaborate photo shoot for his newly adopted baby and auditions mothers interested in having their babies appear in the shoot. Interviewing a host of parents, he asks if the babies would be comfortable working with animals ranging from bees to Komodo dragons to snakes. So desperate are the parents to have their children cast, they agree to all of his ludicrous suggestions. Would the babies be OK with being “thrown from a building”? Would they be at ease around “amateur science”? Would the child be comfortable speeding around in an automobile without a car seat? Could they just “wing it”? The mothers consistently reply that each task would be fine. Brüno even suggests to one mother that her 30-pound baby should lose 10 pounds within seven days, and she replies that this is doable. She even suggests that she would consider lipsocution if the baby should fail to lose the weight. Brüno then congratulates the winning mother and tells her that the baby will be dressed up as a Nazi pushing a Jewish baby into an oven. And you thought Borat pushed buttons? “Brüno” obliterates the button with wicked aplomb.

2. The Texas-based talk show “Today With Richard Bay”: Brüno appears on a Jerry Springer-like talk show to flaunt his new baby to a mostly African-American audience. He baits the females in the audience, telling them he can get any black man he wants and can easily steal their men. The comedy and anger seem to rise in tandem. After taunting the audience with voguing, posing and boasts of homosexual prowess, Brüno eventually brings on his baby, O.J. (as in Simpson), dressed in little cut-leather chaps and a black T-shirt that has “Gayby” written on it. The audience is aghast when he claims that the baby is a “real dick magnet” and was traded in Africa for an iPod, but a special, pimped-out version — “not just any old iPod,” he assures them. The coup de grace is a clearly Photoshopped (thank heavens) photo session of gay hot-tub antics with the baby in tow. The segment ends with the State Child’s Service Department coming in and taking the “illegally” adopted child into protective custody. The Austrian has to fight off security in a hysterical rage.

3. The Ultimate Fighting Championship face-off: At this point in the film, Cohen’s once ostentatiously homosexual reporter has turned militaristically heterosexual and has created a UFC-like show called “Dave’s MAX Out,” giving us our first peek at Straight Dave, the newly invented Brüno. Mustachioed, hirsute and decked out in camouflage gear and an outback hat, Straight Dave parades around the ring to AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” while male spectators cheer him on. This is the gay-loathing party to end all gay-loathing parties. Of course, Straight Dave’s uüber-machismo does a 180 right into homoerotic overtones, but this goes over every audience member’s head as SD rips female stagehands’ clothing to reveal skimpy bikinis.

Then the footage takes a spectacular turn for the worse (better). Think of the scene in “Borat” in which Cohen sings the National Anthem at a Virginia rodeo to an audience that is with him initially and calling for his blood by the end. Brüno is suddenly called out during his show as a “f—-t,” and an appalled Straight Dave challenges the person who yelled that to step into the ring and fight him. We’re not really meant to know who his challenger is, but clearly, it’s his ex-boyfriend. They violently fight, pummeling each other bloody, but eventually the former couple, as you can probably guess, patches things up, passionately making out and groping each other to the sounds of Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.” It is a sensational moment in cinema not to be forgotten soon. Of course, the outraged audience freaks out, and one glorious slow-motion shot captures an overzealous red-faced fan crying.

The footage ended with Cohen addressing the audience one last time, asking if we liked what we’d seen. If so, “buy a f—ing ticket.” The film’s take-no-prisoners approach was breathlessly funny, but no doubt some will ask: Has Sacha Baron Cohen gone too far? “Brüno” hits theaters July 10.

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/03/16...rat-look-tame/

[citizenpain]

sometimes i wish indahouse didn't come out first so we could get an ali g flick now with a bigger budget. indahouse was still hilarious tho. i love bruno and borat, but ali g was the best character. respek!

[Spider-Vader]

I hope Cohen could do a re-design of Ali like he did with Bruno, so people don't know who he is & he can go a good reality Ali G movie.

Indahouse sucked big time.

[redhawk23]

does anyone have a link to some footage of that "fight" in arkansas

[Spider-Vader]

Not that I know. You'll have to wait until it comes out.

[ABleedingCorpse]

I'm looking forward to this film. I've been reading about all the choas he's been starting over the world with his character and it all sounds hilarious.

[matrix_ghost]

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/03/...-nc-17-rating/


Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno Gets an NC-17 Rating!
March 29, 2009
Source: The Wrap
by Alex Billington


Somehow, by some miracle, Sacha Baron Cohen and Fox were able to get the MPAA to allow a 3-minute naked fight scene between two brutally ugly men slide by as R rated in Borat in 2006. But apparently they MPAA is not being so lenient this time. The Wrap is reporting that Bruno, or more accurately titled Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male, has been slapped with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA on its first pass. Obviously they're going to edit some of the overly sexual scenes so that it can get an R rating by the time it hits theaters in July. But so far this is some good news!

Apparently there are "numerous sexual scenes that the ratings board considers over the line." One of them involves Bruno appearing to have "anal sex with a man on camera." In the other, Bruno "goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters," who, as we know, is one of Sacha Baron Cohen's unsuspecting victims caught on camera. So why is this good news? Because as ludicrous and awesome as Borat was, it sounds like Bruno is going to kick things up another notch, especially in the sexual department. Did anyone really think that Cohen would be able to top that 3-minute naked fight scene?

Apparently Borat got an NC-17 rating on its first pass, too, so this isn't exactly too shocking to hear. And considering Cohen has a little over 3 more months to finish editing this and get an R rating, it's likely we'll hear that it finally got the MPAA stamp of approval sooner than later. With this news, and all that I heard about the crazy footage shown at SXSW, it's easy to say that I truly am excited for Bruno this summer!

[Dark Donnie]

Not that surprising I guess

[Chewy]

Just an FYI, the red band has been released.

[Christmas]

Link to Trailer!!!!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40630

[Crockett]

Just...****ing a!

[Nirvana]

The movie looks absolutely hilarious!

This is definitely on my must see list this summer.

[what_19]

hhhaahahaha looks great

[boydston_14]

I still haven't seen Borat, but this looks hilarious...

[-Arya-]

That trailer was absolute GOLD! I cannot wait for this.

[imaperson2]

that was brilliant. "we're looking for a locksmith" hahahaha