Burning Questions: Is Bruno Satire or Minstrelsy?

I would say it's neither. It is social commentary. I think it's plain comedy. See, the guy is Jewish, and usually there aren't good roles for openly Jewish actors. All the Jews play Non-Jews. But Cohen is a comedian, he tries to find, no make, everything humrous, or to show the humourous in everything. If it's sature, he's satirizing the entire human race. And he makes aanti-semetic jokes in Borat Movie Film Make Benefit. Yes, all of it is demeaning, yet the subject matter he lampoons is not humanity's shining moments, so already it's degraded material he is working with. But seriously, can a non-ga person portray gays? Look at Brokeback Mountain. I'm not gay, but I found the love scene at the end og Bruno movie BETTER than anything in Brokeback Mountain. Brokeback had SEX SCENES, which I differentiate between LOVE SCENES. I think Cohen redeems himself by showing true love sceen at the end of his movie. AND, if it wer Minstrelry, Bruno would not be a SMART individual. You can tell Cohen has respect for his characters and the people he portrays. Ali G is a celebration more than anything else, of Brits who just happen to love hip-hop culture. That's how I see it. But also Jamaican culture. It's a British thing, but its about people who truly love other people. Borat is making a film to benefit his country, which is more than most filmmakers do, yet the IRONY is that America shows him only it's worst side, usually. But its not Satire, it's more like Social Commentary that you laugh at, too. They are not mockumentaries like SPinal Tap, its REAL people doing stupid stuff like letting Cohen make a picture of a black baby Jesus on a crucifix. That to me isn't Satire OR Minstrelry, it isn't even simple good comedy, cause it is so funny but it's like Cohen is a demented funny rabbi who didn't make it through Yeshiva school so he has to make his points through comedy.

No, Cohen respects everyone. Yo, respect. Right. He's trying to be a priest to the nations through his comedy. He's his generation's Peter Sellers in a way, or Monty Python. I don't know what Satire is, I just know it as comedy. So I'd say Satire.

Satire. All the way. British Comedy. Just Comedy.
Offensive to Gay People, good question that should be asked to GLTB community.

Burning Question: Do you find Cohen humor to be funny?

oh balls and dicks jokes: Low brow humor, Cohen just outdoes the Americans. So much of American comedy is low brow and balls and dcks, Cohen takes that are really give it to us Americans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DchotzuAvgc

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I beg to differ, I think Cohen was making less fun of hip-hop cculture and more fun of wiggers.....Ask any black guy if he is insulted by the term wigger and he'll probably say no b/c (A) he's not a part of that stereotype and generally never gets made fun of for liking rap or hip-hop and (B) most likely agrees that a white guy trying to pretend to be black is as ridiculous as a black guy pretending to be white (see Carlton from the Fresh Prince of Bel Aire.)

The bigger question is, are there any Wiggers that find it offensive? Would they get upset if I called them Ali G? Maybe.....

The same can now be said of Bruno, will that name become a derogitory curse for a flamboyant homosexual?

I think the reason people are offended is that Cohen could actually pass for a gay person, there being no indicators of homosexuality beyond stereotyped behavior or self-declarations (or, you know, homosexual acts), whereas his character Ali G could never have passed for black. The humor is largely in eliciting bigoted or uncomfortable reactions from those around him, but I think the character itself is also satire, not of homosexuals generally, but of certain elements of gay culture, just as Ali G satirized elements of hip hop (or black, as it were) culture. After all, these satirical elements wouldn't be funny if we didn't already recognize them.

ETA: Oh, I wasn't suppose to respond in text. But I did anyway.