Showing posts with label Borat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Borat. Show all posts
Monday, July 27, 2026
Friday, July 24, 2026
Rooting for colonizer Spain? (comedy)
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| Get Funny or Die Tryin (Sammy Obeid) |
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| Did the Americas root for colonizer Spain? |
He once performed 1,001 nights of comedy in a row (just like the classic of world literature One Thousand and One Nights), which he claimed was a world record [7]. Obeid is also a host for the Netflix show 100 Humans and the founder of KO Comedy (IG) [8]. More
(The Daily Show) Did a secret "Stargate" in Iran cause Trump-Israel's war? What is Stargate 10?
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Kazakhstan metal fest: Marilyn Manson
Kazakhstan is a massive country in Central Asia made infamous by Borat (Sascha Baron Cohen). It was once a Silk Route Buddhist country along Silk Road transmission of Buddhism. Islam conquered it, and Western hegemony followed. Now it has metal and modern music festivals, hiring self-proclaimed "drug addict" Marilyn Manson, one the smartest man in alt rock before being destroyed by drugs or bad judgment in general. He has faced criminal sexual allegations and still doesn't seem to reign it in.
- Marilyn Manson via AnakinAwakening;
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Jewish comedy: Larry Charles, Seinfeld
Zionism is a criminal project and is not Judaism. Neturei Karta (NK USA) is the voice of masses of Orthodox Jews who follow TRADITIONAL Judaism in its opposition to the political (often secular) philosophy of "Zionism," the existence of the State of Israel, opposes the Zionist occupation of Palestine and condemns Israel's atrocities committed to and by many of its people. There are many Jews who oppose Zionism and Israel.
(Planet News) Israel under retaliatory fire! Bases hit, 220K affected, trapped by BN | BBC News
(Fresh Air, WHYY, June 17, 2025) In his new memoir, Comedy Samurai, Larry Charles reflects on his career in comedy — from writing for Seinfeld to directing Sacha Baron Cohen's films Borat and Brüno — and a recent near-death experience.
Larry Charles has a new memoir called Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter. When he says blood and guts, he means it. He and Sacha Baron Cohen took enormous risks with their films, in which Baron Cohen took his characters Borat and Bruno into the real world and shot scenes with people who thought Borat and Bruno were real people.
LARRY CHARLES: Thank you. It's great to be here again. Thank you so much.
CHARLES: Well, I think it gave me a little more perspective on my own mortality. I have been obsessed with death since I'm a kid. But the reality of death and the obsession with death are two very different things.
How Larry Charles went from selling jokes on the street to writing for Seinfeld
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| Larry David and Larry Charles |
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Larry Charles, has been an integral part of TV shows and films that both reflected and made an impact on American popular culture.
He was a writer on Seinfeld, showrunner on Mad About You, a writer and executive producer on HBO's Entourage and a director and executive producer on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He directed Sacha Baron Cohen's films Borat and Bruno. He also collaborated with Bob Dylan on the film Masked and Anonymous.
From Peabody, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning writer and director Larry Charles comes a rollicking journey through modern American comedy. He shares behind-the-scenes stories from his life's work. To tell his life story is to tell the story of modern American comedy. Over the last 40 years, few comedians have been a part of so many iconic, beloved projects. He was one of the original writers and producers on Seinfeld, directed over 20 episodes each of Curb Your Enthusiasm...
Expert interviewer Terry Gross (NPR)
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| Larry David developed "Cosmo Kramer" |
To expose antisemitism, racism, and homophobia, Baron Cohen's fictional characters pushed his targets to reveal their darker feelings and beliefs, and it sometimes ended in near violence, with Baron Cohen, Larry Charles and the crew fleeing.
(JimmyDore.com) All Israeli prime ministers lie with their fake names
Larry Charles also did a documentary series called Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy, where he went to dangerous places run by authoritarian rulers or were controlled by militias to see what comedy was like there. Larry Charles, welcome back to FRESH AIR.
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| Julia Louis Dreyfus as "Elaine" |
HOST TERRY GROSS: So the book starts with you having a heart attack and thinking...
CHARLES: *Laughter*
GROSS: This might be the end. Did facing the prospect of death make you rethink parts of your life and lead you to think you should rewrite parts of the book?
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| Woody Allen as Death |
And so I think I wanted to go back and be a little more honest and take a little bit more responsibility for my behavior. And I did add that layer to the book after all this happened.
GROSS: Yeah, because there's part of the book where you write you realized you were the agent of your own misfortune.
CHARLES: Very much so, yes.
GROSS: And that happened after...
CHARLES: And I had some bad agents, believe me. But I was...
GROSS: *Laughter* More: How Larry Charles went from selling jokes on the street to writing for 'Seinfeld' (NPR)
- *Anti-Dentite? The Yada Yada episode; Seinfeld lived on a kibbutz
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- (The Tanya Rabbi) Jerry Seinfeld accused of being complicit in Gaza genocide: Is it an Ashkenazi white supremacist Jewish or Jewish superiority position to take to say we Jews have a "Jewish soul" that no one else has or can get. We are different. We are the best. Is that racist?
Friday, September 13, 2024
'Am I racist?' film with Matt Walsh (film)
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| Hipster Matt in disguise |
From the white guys who brought you What Is a Woman? comes Am I Racist? Matt Walsh goes deep undercover in the world of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Prepare to be shocked by how far race h*stlers will go and how much further conservative Matt Walsh will push back to expose the grift, uncovering absurdities that will leave viewers laughing.
- Am I Racist? in theaters Sept. 13th, 2024: amiracist.com
- White Fragility author slams conservative podcaster Matt Walsh who duped her into giving Black producer reparations in new documentary 😁
I'm Offended: Then and Now
- Racism in the USA? Nah, not anymore: Trump-backed candidate in Montana caught on tape making racially-charged remarks about Native American tribe
- White rightwing conservative smart guy Matthew Walsh; Awaken with JP "I'm Offended Then and Now; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Fun with Ingrid Andress, National Anthem
This one's for DJ and JD and the wave of "patriotism" that is about to sweep over the nation, according to psychic who predicted Trump's assassination attempt four months in advance.
Why Ingrid Andress’ National Anthem is going viral
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| JD indicts the CIA and FBI in Trump cover up |
Friday, August 16, 2019
Gay in the Deep South (video)
Straight Dave (Mr. "Bruno" Cohen); S. Auberon, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| "Straight Dave" (Sacha B. Cohen) |
Here "Bruno," as "Straight Dave," travels to the South for a good ol' fashion beat down in "Straight Dave's Man Slammin' Maxout." But the easily-duped, beer-swigging, Caucasian, Christian, WASPy, IQ-impaired, hyper-masculine fight fans will have none of it.
Maybe we should be more tolerant and less hateful/phobic? Or maybe the city folk "Cosmopolitans" should just wince at what the country neighbor cousins are doing to the image of the USA toward the LGBTQI community. Either way, it's very funny and all in jest, as Cohen explained on The Jonathan Ross Show in England.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Grad Night and Intolerance (video)
Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Matt Bai (news.yahoo)
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| "Die-in" San Francisco protest (IM) |
America's college students are back and resting at home this week, which is a good thing, because during the long months away they seem to have gone completely out of their minds.
Last weekend, The New York Times' Jennifer Medina reported on the latest bizarre demand on campus: "trigger warnings" to let students know if the text [book] they're about to study will expose them to some version of misogyny or homophobia, so they aren't unexpectedly [re-]traumatized by visions of things that can never be unseen -- like, say, every novel written by a white man before 1960 [Hey, by the way, I'm a privileged white male, but never mind that].
The Harvard Commencement Speech
PC on overdrive: Ali G. (Sacha Baron Cohen aka Borat) gives commencement speech at America's most prestigious university in 2004.
That followed the public [sham]ings of several commencement speakers whose invitations had to be rescinded, including such evildoers as [Bush Era war criminal] former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the International Monetary Fund's [bankster] Christine Lagarde, and [insider] Robert Birgeneau, the former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
All of this has provoked a torrent of eloquent condemnation from pundits and academics, who worry that our elite universities, in the words of an editorial published in Monday’s Washington Post, are being "impoverished by intolerance."
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| One of Obama's alleged alma maters, Oxy |
[This] is a reasonable concern, except that it misses the point. It's not the students' fault that they expect to laze around in a world of ideological comfort. It's totally ours.
There's nothing new about the basic tension between speech and sensitivity on campus. When I was at Tufts in the late '80s, at the height of what we called political correctness [PC], we argued fiercely about whether the military belonged on campus [ROTC] or whether certain faculty members were denied tenure because of their politics. But, by and large, we were primed to have the debate, not chill it. More
How we rule the world: Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins, Y Audiobooks)
Monday, April 1, 2013
Learning PORN for college credit
CC Liu and Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly, April 1st, 2013 UPDATED
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Pornstar Jessica Drake adds excitement to Professor Hugo Schwyzer's gripping navigating Internet pornography class, 3-20-13 (James Carbone/pasadenastarnews.com).
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| Knuckle babies |
- Porn Professor Brings Adult Star to Campus (Lauren Gold): Adult film star and sex educator [trainee] Jessica Drake fielded questions from Pasadena City College students Wednesday [March 20, 2013] in Professor Hugo Schwyzer's "Navigating Pornography" class, which has attracted questions of its own in recent weeks from a wary administration. SEX ED VIDEOS
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| Look, I'm Ross! Beiber and his monkey (RO) |
We spoke to someone who went to school with Prof. Schwyzer. While an undergrad at UC Berkeley and grad student at UCLA in history, Schwyzer was allegedly a closeted member of the LGBTQI community. Schwyzer was outed in a the UC Berkeley Housing Co-op newspaper while cheating on his Asian girlfriend, wrestling with his aspiration to become a Catholic priest, and trying to have sex with his beard/fiancee's friend and roommate, Erika Rydingsword. They lived in a residential coed co-op, Ridge House, on Holy Hill (UCB's collection of seminaries and churches adjacent to Ridge House and Ridge Project, aka Casa Zimbabwe) during the reign of Paige Wolverton, according to house manager Will Hall. "It was a different time back then [early 1990s], and Hugo was considered kind of a creepy hypocrite and ultra-religious glad-hander." Rydingsword told people Schwyzer would make her slap him, which he got off on masochistically, while guiltily recounting his Catholic frustrations and aberrant attractions.
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| "Feminist"? (la.indymedia.org) |
He must be much cooler now after graduating with a degree in history from a top flight school and landing a post at a top city college where he can teach people how to navigate porno on the Web. "[He] Must be."
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| Kevin Ryder, "Miss Double December," Ralph |
Tomorrow an entire bit is planned (available as a free podcast). Recently college administrators were alarmed that the class was being opened up to the public without Schwyzer filling out the proper paperwork. Sadly this may mean a closed course in the future as a parade of other show-and-tell presenters is invited in. (Should've never left college).
Bruno's Sexy Religious Conversion
WARNING: Very funny. Sexual themes and language. Frank discussion of Christian repairative ("gay conversion") therapy between "Bruno" (comedian Sacha Baron Cohen) and Pastor Quinn.
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| Icky, grippy, sexy? |
Sounding very professorial and only a little perverse, the real Schwyzer (rather than Ralph the professional impersonator) called Kevin & Bean, who made light of the course in their trademark sexist way during the final hour of the show. Most interesting in the short interview were the revelations that this is the second time the course is being taught, and the class has a gender ratio of 60:40, women to men, with no minors in attendance.
Sex with Teacher? The potential of the course just gets better and better, particularly if a student wants to be the apple (target) of a teacher's arrow (eros). According to Grace, Prof. Schwyzer is not above sexual misconduct if only "misconduct" were defined by school administrators as sex with four students being chaperoned by Schwyzer, which it is apparently not:
On Hugo Schwyzer: Accountability...
AreWomenHuman.me
"...A few weeks ago [Grace] wrote an article for Global Comment on
the ongoing discussion in parts of the feminist blogosphere about Hugo
Schwyzer, and more broadly on the place of people with a history of
abuse in feminism and other activist movements. The short version of the
controversy (from my article):
"Schwyzer, a professor of gender studies and male feminist personality….has written prolifically, and controversially, about recovering from sex and drug addictions, his now 13-year sobriety, and his "pre-sobriety" predatory behavior towards younger female students -- including, at one point, sleeping with four students on a class trip he was chaperoning.
"The
current backlash against him, set in motion by yet another article recounting
this troubling history, took on unprecedented intensity after the
resurfacing of a post, originally written a year ago [which Schwyzer has now redacted to protect himself from legal consequences], in which Schwyzer admitted to nearly killing a former girlfriend in a drug-fueled* murder-suicide attempt.
"The subsequent outcry and campaign against Schwyzer has, for the first time, resulted in concrete consequences for him..." More
AreWomenHuman.me
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| Slutwalk, London (Garry Knight/CC) |
"Schwyzer, a professor of gender studies and male feminist personality….has written prolifically, and controversially, about recovering from sex and drug addictions, his now 13-year sobriety, and his "pre-sobriety" predatory behavior towards younger female students -- including, at one point, sleeping with four students on a class trip he was chaperoning.
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| What?! (afternoonsnoozebutton.com) |
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| F*ck No Hugo (tumblr) |
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Move: Exercise is good for the body!
Exercise for the mind. Mind and body are interdependent. Mood has much to do with bodily health and well being. The better one feels in the body, the better one's mood will be. After all, emotions are chemically based. Whatever we think translates into a "language" the body can understand -- and that's biochemical. So what are the latest scientific benefits of exercise? Here are five:
1. It reverses the detrimental effects of stress.
Jumping on the treadmill or cross trainer for 30 minutes can be an instant way to blow off tension by boosting levels of "soothing" brain chemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.
What's fascinating, though, is that exercise may actually work on a cellular level to reverse stress's toll on our aging process, according to a June study from the University of California at San Francisco. The researchers found that stressed-out women who exercised vigorously for an average of 45 minutes over a three-day period had cells that showed fewer signs of aging compared to women who were stressed and not active. Working out also helps keep us from ruminating "by altering blood flow to those areas in the brain involved in triggering us to relive these stressful thoughts again and again," says study coauthor Elissa Epel, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF.
2. It lifts depression.
Research suggests that burning off 350 calories three times a week through sustained, sweat-inducing activity can reduce symptoms of depression about as effectively as antidepressants. That may be because exercise has been found to stimulate the growth of neurons in certain brain regions damaged during depression. What's more, animal studies have found that getting active boosts the production of brain molecules that improve connections between nerve cells, thereby acting as a natural antidepressant.
3. It improves learning.
Exercise increases the level of brain chemicals called growth factors that help make new brain cells and establish new connections between brain cells to help us learn. Interestingly, complicated activities, like playing tennis or taking a dance class, provide the biggest brain boost. "You're challenging your brain even more when you have to think about coordination," explains Ratey. "Like muscles, you have to stress your brain cells to get them to grow." Complicated activities also improve our capacity to learn by enhancing our attention and concentration skills, according to German researchers who found that high school students scored better on high-attention tasks after doing 10 minutes of a complicated fitness routine compared to 10 minutes of regular activity. (Those who hadn't exercised at all scored the worst.)
4. It builds self-esteem and improves body image.
You don't need to radically change your body shape to get a confidence surge from exercise. Studies suggest that simply seeing fitness improvements, like running a faster mile or lifting more weight than before, can improve your self-esteem and body image.
5. It leaves you feeling euphoric.
Yes, that "runner's high" really does exist if you're willing to shift into high-intensity mode. Ratey recommends sprint bursts through interval training. Run, bike, or swim as fast as you can for 30 to 40 seconds and then reduce your speed to a gentle pace for five minutes before sprinting again. Repeat four times for a total of five sprints. "You'll feel really sparkly for the rest of the day." Source
Friday, April 16, 2010
LA police chief dies to cheers and laughs
(WQ) Los Angeles has long suffered from too few officers to effectively police a city of its size. Police chief Daryl F. Gates reacted by tactics referred to as the "hammer." Diverse racial communities were put under the gun, deprived of civil rights, and terrorized in the name of disproportionate force and retaliation.
Why does it matter to the world? Gates perpetuated a culture of police abuse inherited by Chief Bratton, who recently left the LAPD to work for a global security firm advising governments. Expect LAPD-style abuse.
Imagine a small group of colonial invaders sitting in a fort shooting Indians out of fear then calling those abuses of power "heroic" -- and there you have the work of the LAPD under Gates. The chief became an infamous failure and was subsequently driven out of office after the 1992 LA riots.
The cause of the riot (the Rodney King beating and torture by a large group of police officers) was the culture of abuse overseen by Gates. Beatings like this were not uncommon, except in the fact that this one was filmed. But Rodney King is a remarkable example of how much police fear, hate, and therefore abuse minorities.
Those riots cost the city more than a billion dollars and were inflamed by a stunning lack of police response at the flash point, the corner of Normandie and Western. Gates was apparently afraid his officers might get hurt if people were rising up -- and why squelch something if you can institute Marshall law and police state methods after the fact instead? Called a neo-Nazi, undoubtedly a racially-insensitive authoritarian, he died an excruciating death from bladder cancer overnight in his home in Newport Beach at age 83.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Bruno: Gay vs. "Gay" (comedy)
(WQ) Coinciding with the annual Outfest is the Los Angeles premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno." Outfest is an authentically gay cinematic celebration of all things homosexual, whereas Cohen brings the second of his triumvirate Borat/Bruno/Ali G personality to the screen.
- "Bruno" tops weekend box office with $30 mil opening
A few years after racist America got its pride handed to it on an Eastern European platter, here comes British comedian Cohen to peel back the veneer on American attitudes towards homosexuality. Gays are unhappy. Unfortunately, the movie falls flat. More gay pornography than storyline or skillfully discomfitting humor based on authentic interviews with unwitting subject, it is clear that Cohen is straining to recapture the genius of "Borat."
Funny at times and shocking throughout, as a whole the film is a great disappointment. It cannot compare to the British TV show it is based on. It seems one would have to be gay to enjoy it. But if one were gay, one would certainly be offended.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Ali G interviews Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky (who's Jewish) is one of the foremost authorities and scholar willing to speak truth to the powers that be. Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen, who's also Jewish) is also daring in confronting racism and all manner of hypocrisy.
Sarah Silverman (also Jewish), like most comedians, has the ability to point the finger in the right direction and mock what many quietly realize but are not allowed to voice.
The "Right Wing Media"
The right wing media is 99% of the media we have, fails us. It is tightly controlled by many mechanisms. Programming and content is dictated from power centers. And if that means installing an Israeli as Homeland Security chief in America -- what (military-industrial) corporate power wants, it gets. And Americans largely remain asleep.
WARNING: Offensive lyrics
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