I guess if you play three characters, you can be famous for 45 minutes.
Bruno's actually my favorite SBC character.
I think for his next character he needs to play a petite Olympic figure skater.
I am so conflicted about SBC. I think the characters are incredibly clever, but I hate humor that takes advantage of peoples' best nature (always hated Tom Green), even when it's the best nature of people who don't have much good nature.
My favorite character is Ali G, because acting stupid is funnier than acting foreign or acting gay (although it's all the same, right? it's the inscrutable that's the funny?), but at the same time, Ali G took advantage of the least deserving victims. What am I supposed to do with that?
Gaijin totally got taken by SBC. Which character was it? Will you tell us?
The gay-healing pastor video seems kind of good, in the sense that it is holding a jerk up for everybody to see what an asshole he is; but not really particularly funny.
I couldn't bear to watch the clips. But the premises alone confirm my prior suspicion: SBC is a dick. He might be a funny dick, but he's a dick.
Of course he's a dick. He can be a very funny dick at times, though.
I am conflicted by him as well. The youtube clips that I have seen certainly make me laugh, although they do seem repetitive.
I guess that I am not entirely convinced that the humor comes from mocking the people who have the prejudices instead of the humor coming from the simple prejudices.
Gaijin totally got taken by SBC. Which character was it? Will you tell us?
Ali G, back when I was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. It really pissed me off when he called me "Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali". Everyone knows it's just two Boutroses.
Also, while I don't like Jay Leno, Martha Stewart, or SBC, it's kind of awesome to watch all three of them together.
Holy shit: Jay Leno asked Martha Stewart if she's ever had a threesome?!
Something like, "No, one man. One good man."
I just watched the two Bruno clips ogged posted, and I have to say that two out of three of the interviews are not so painful. The football player is uncomfortable, and probably homophobic, but he doesn't behave so unprofessionally in the face of provocation. The pastor remains almost admirably on point; I disagree with everything he stands for, but he doesn't embarrass himself. (The "event organizer" at the end of the first clip, though: whoo boy.) If I recall correctly, another prominent interviewee who managed to come through an Ali G interview with some dignity was Newt Gingrinch.
Gingrich did ok. I wound up liking Dick Thornburgh a lot, and Boutros Boutros Ghali demonstrated that he was, in fact, a skilled diplomat: he somehow managed to play along in good humor without at all implicating himself.
I remember the Boutros Boutros Ghali interview now. He was impressively nimble.
that anti-gay minister was surprisingly accommodating, which let Bruno really play it up.