Joan Rivers: "The networks are still very much an old boys club. They think women at night just want to watch men. I'd love to have my own late-night talk show and I think I could take them all."
The film exposes the depths of homophobia, transcending basic shock humor to capture the face of hatred.
Why the big fade? It's actually not much of a mystery. Once you see the movie, the only mystery is why it wasn't predicted in the first place.
On the discomfort scale, 10 watching the Vice President go-off script on a Sunday talk show, 5 having an informal bite with Hillary, and 1 getting a foot massage on Air Force One as we fly into the sunset, I'd give it a 7.
The comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles reassures people who already agree with them that their dislike for the South, Christianity, and conservatism are well-founded.
What happens when you're lampooning someone, or some segment of society, but in exposing their ridiculous notions, they only think you're promoting their cause?
Bruno documents the real hatred and craziness gripping many corners of this country. Sacha Baron Cohen pushes people to confront homosexuality, and he exposes violent and shocking intolerance.
Is the character of Bruno, an ultra-flamboyant gay fashion reporter, offensive or damaging to gay people? (Maybe).
Bruno is still a movie that will make you laugh so hard you'll gasp for breath. The set-up is almost identical to Borat's, but Baron Cohen still finds ways to shock you into guffaws, over and over.
It's just a coincidence that Lynn Shelton's wonderfully funny Humpday, a comedy about the denial of homosexual panic, is being released Friday, the same day as Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno
Will Andy Samberg be the first politician to run for U.S. Senator armed with an array of provocative digital shorts starring him and Justin Timberlake?
"There has never been a fake bin Laden tape," a U.S. counterterrorism official announced, but they are investigating as the voice sounds suspiciously like that of Sacha Baron Cohen.
It's frustrating to be confronted with demeaning, stereotypical images that feel like they're aimed not at increasing people's discomfort with homophobia, but rather at decreasing their comfort with gay people.
Clearly the WTF moment of the MTV Movie Awards was Sacha Baron Cohen teabagging Slim Shady on national television.
Unfortunately, recent studies of programs like The Colbert Report have shown that Americans' ability to distinguish satire from reality has been dramatically degraded in recent years,.
According to Seinfeld, "All the great comedians you see are deadly serious about what they do. They're not joking when they're working. Sacha Baron Cohen is one of the most serious people about his craft of anybody I've met."
Just shy of a week after Obama took the oath of office, there's a new tome out by Bernard Goldberg that seeks to trash the supposedly liberal "mainstream media" for being in the tank for Obama.
Rakhat Aliyev has had many careers. The 47 year old Kazakh former intelligence chief and self-proclaimed opposition leader has been a medical doctor, ...
If Tina Fey wins a Nobel Prize in Physics, will that make people start watching 30 Rock? Possible answer: Maybe?
As of yet, no Secretary of Satire has been named, but those rumored under consideration include Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee and William Kristol.
Before I could stop myself, it came out of my mouth: "No, I like my coffee the way I like my presidents, BLACK!"
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