Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by shrimpx on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:18AM (#21618533)

With all due respect, you don't understand his comedy whatsoever. I suspect you believe Bill Hicks is also a misanthrope. These are extremely gauche interpretations, it's like saying Picasso didn't care about painting because he didn't paint realistic flowers and horses and barns like a "proper painter" would.

Edit: misspelling.

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by vorpalhex on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:30AM (#21621412)

Cohen performed his bits without the audience knowing they were part of it - and he only shows the bits that had the outcomes he wanted (or were at least funny). There are more then a few security cam clips of the bits that didn't go so well - and I recommend finding them.

Cohen isn't a surrealist who is using a medium to convey the depth of life, he's just a comedian with an editing team.

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by shrimpx on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:21PM (#21623072)

It's true he's just a comedian, but his comedy goes deeper than your run of the mill midlife crisis jokes at the comedy cellar or whatever.

Just like Bill Hicks, he's a political comedian that reveals hard to stomach truths. Unlike Bill Hicks who creates an abstract persona (of a particular kind of bigot, etc.) and then critiques it, Cohen astonishingly shows you a concrete instance.

Cheney autographed a milk jug he was convinced was used for waterboarding. Saying a joke about this on stage would be pretty funny, but Cheney himself autographed a waterboarding milk jug on camera and lamented about how much it would be worth as a collectors item.

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