Borat

**bennocelt** · 06/11/2006, 9:15 AM

Originally Posted by lopez

They've got a point. How would Sash like it if Channel 4 had some Irish bloke doing the old Shylock routine, complete with sweatshops and moths in the wallet, or gags about gas and Auschwitz? It would make Louis Walsh look like flavour of the month.

do you remember Foster and allen on top of the pops!

or Eamon Holmes!

they are enuff thick irish guys willing to make an ass of themselves on british TV..to play the stupid irish man

**anto1208** · 06/11/2006, 10:37 AM

i loved the running of the jew !! "whats happening here ...oh the woman jew is laying a jew egg ... quick children smash the jew egg before a jew chick has time to hatch "

when he did the live news channel interveiw ( the one he stands up in the middle of ) it actually went out live on air and the producer that booked him lost her job 3 months later.

**max power** · 09/11/2006, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by lopez

They've got a point. How would Sash like it if Channel 4 had some Irish bloke doing the old Shylock routine, complete with sweatshops and moths in the wallet, or gags about gas and Auschwitz? It would make Louis Walsh look like flavour of the month.

father ted was on channel 4 wasn't it ??? that didn't show the irish iin a great light over all.

every cop or priest in the US is always Irish........

**paul_oshea** · 09/11/2006, 12:54 PM

thought it was average, honestly don't know what the hype was about, a lot of the jokes he pulled when interviewing people he had already done in ali-g.

what i really liked though and what stood out for me was how he showed how full of sh1te people are ( americans particularly ), when he went to the dinner and they were all laddi da, and being friendly and full of crap, then after some of the things he said and after bringing the black one in he shows them up for what they really are.....yet they make out they are the best and most honest and decent people, but when it comes to the crunch they are anything but.....

i felt sorry for the old jewish couple in the B&B ( assuming that wasn't an act ) they were being really nice and friendly and he was being really mean and cruel, though he didnt directly insult them which wasn't so bad.

rating 2.5 out of 5 personally. some funny original gags, but a lot of it was very predictable.

**gustavo** · 09/11/2006, 1:04 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

thought it was average, honestly don't know what the hype was about, a lot of the jokes he pulled when interviewing people he had already done in ali-g.

what i really liked though and what stood out for me was how he showed how full of sh1te people are ( americans particularly ), when he went to the dinner and they were all laddi da, and being friendly and full of crap, then after some of the things he said and after bringing the black one in he shows them up for what they really are.....yet they make out they are the best and most honest and decent people, but when it comes to the crunch they are anything but.....

i felt sorry for the old jewish couple in the B&B ( assuming that wasn't an act ) they were being really nice and friendly and he was being really mean and cruel, though he didnt directly insult them which wasn't so bad.

rating 2.5 out of 5 personally. some funny original gags, but a lot of it was very predictable.

I dont think he got kicked out because she was black i think it had more to do with the fact that he had invited a prostitute to the dinner party.

**bennocelt** · 09/11/2006, 1:45 PM

Originally Posted by lopez

They've got a point. How would Sash like it if Channel 4 had some Irish bloke doing the old Shylock routine, complete with sweatshops and moths in the wallet, or gags about gas and Auschwitz? It would make Louis Walsh look like flavour of the month.

do you remember Foster and allen on top of the pops!

or Eamon Holmes!

they are enuff thick irish guys willing to make an ass of themselves on british TV..to play the stupid irish man

**BohsPartisan** · 09/11/2006, 1:56 PM

Originally Posted by lopez

They've got a point. How would Sash like it if Channel 4 had some Irish bloke doing the old Shylock routine, complete with sweatshops and moths in the wallet, or gags about gas and Auschwitz? It would make Louis Walsh look like flavour of the month.

Pretty much what Tommy Tiernan did in front of a Jewish Audience in New York.

**lopez** · 09/11/2006, 2:24 PM

And add Jimmy Cricket and Frank Carson. Seeing that I grew up in the place and time when the t'ick Paddy was seen not as some subtle piece of humour but actual fact, I don't need to be told about Irish stereotypes.

But at least ALL these Irish 'comedians' were insulting themselves and there own people (I don't think Father Ted can be included in that because two of the three central charachters embraced two common stereotypes of Irish people, all the others were at worst, a bit odd, or a caracature of an Irish celebrity - Terry Wogan and the wig, Clare Grogan as Sinead O'Connor etc.). SBC is doing anything but that. He not using anti-semitism to take the p*ss out of himself - bad as that would be - he's using it to take the p*ss out of Kazakhstan.

Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

Pretty much what Tommy Tiernan did in front of a Jewish Audience in New York.

What happened there?

**paul_oshea** · 09/11/2006, 2:31 PM

I dont think he got kicked out because she was black i think it had more to do with the fact that he had invited a prostitute to the dinner party.

she was an actress.

**BohsPartisan** · 09/11/2006, 3:31 PM

Originally Posted by lopez

What happened there?

A bit of nervous laughter. Tumbleweed mainly.

**gustavo** · 09/11/2006, 4:40 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

she was an actress.

They didnt know that.

**sligoman** · 09/11/2006, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

after bringing the black one in he shows them up for what they really are.....yet they make out they are the best and most honest and decent people, but when it comes to the crunch they are anything but.....

That had nothing to do with it. As gus said it was cos the woman was a prostitute, that's why they freaked!

**BohsPartisan** · 10/11/2006, 10:24 AM

Reminds me of the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry hires a prostitute to sit in the passenger seat of his car so he can use the car-pool lane. He is a rush to get to a baseball game and he takes her along where he is spotted by the two stuffy old WASPS that interviewed him for membership of their country club. As they walk past staring in disdain Larry says "If your ever looking for a good bl0w J0b, she's your girl"

**paul_oshea** · 10/11/2006, 10:29 AM

WASPS

White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants? or do you mean Blackie Lawless and Dougie Blair?

BohsPartisan, you reminded me of W.A.S.P and i just booked tickets for the astoria next friday!!!!

**BohsPartisan** · 10/11/2006, 10:42 AM

My brother in law is going to that and to see them in Dublin on Saturday night and in Belfast on Monday. He's obsessed. My wife is heading up with him on Monday. I can't stand that type of thing myself. I'll be going to Paul Weller that Saturday.

**paul_oshea** · 10/11/2006, 12:46 PM

My wife is heading up with him on Monday. I can't stand that type of thing

I have never heard the term music being refered to in the noun form, but ya its good stuff your wife and brother-in-law have good taste in music. do you know what happens to women at these concerts btw?????

check out the bottom of this page:
http://www.waspnation.com/tourdates.html

**BohsPartisan** · 10/11/2006, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

I have never heard the term music being refered to in the noun form, but ya its good stuff your wife and brother-in-law have good taste in music. do you know what happens to women at these concerts btw?????

check out the bottom of this page:
http://www.waspnation.com/tourdates.html

Well that's what she usually does to me so it'll make a change!

**swain** · 13/11/2006, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by lopez

They've got a point. How would Sash like it if Channel 4 had some Irish bloke doing the old Shylock routine, complete with sweatshops and moths in the wallet, or gags about gas and Auschwitz? It would make Louis Walsh look like flavour of the month.

Our politicians and RTE do a good enough job of that already.