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Baron Cohen -- one of the great satirists of our time -- is taking a prejudiced position to its logical conclusion, in order to expose its absurdity. It's how satire works.
Mike Miley | Posted 08.15.2009 | Entertainment
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.
NBC New York | Jere Hester | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York
Austrian fashion journalist Bruno and Hogwarts leader Albus Dumbledore are two very different fictional characters with something in common -- and no,...
Sean L. McCarthy | Posted 08.14.2009 | Comedy
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?
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 08.13.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment
Thursday on 'Today' Bruno received some devastating news. Luckily Matt Lauer was there to console him. Lauer informed the fashionista that the Austr...
Marshall Fine | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment
Bruno has tried on many looks and showed a lot of impeccably waxed skin during his exhausting and glorious world promotional tour. But which one of hi...
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment
Sacha Baron Cohen has always made people laugh--sometimes nervously--by pushing the envelope, and never has he pushed it as far as he did in the makin...
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment
Sacha Baron Cohen continues his tour of Europe as Bruno. He showed up in London on Wednesday in skimpy Buckingham Palace guard regalia, revealing even...
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 07.17.2009 | Entertainment
An impeccably waxed Sacha Baron Cohen poses as Bruno on the cover of the July GQ. Look familiar? He is striking the same pose as Jennifer Aniston did ...
nytimes.com | BROOKS BARNES | Posted 07.15.2009 | Entertainment
"Brüno," a movie that, in mercilessly exploiting the discomfort created when straight men are ambushed by aggressive gayness, happens to (surprise!) ...
Rashad Robinson | Posted 07.14.2009 | Entertainment
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.
people.com | Stephen M. Silverman | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment
For his role as the flamboyant Austrian fashion journalist Brüno, Cohen bleached his body hair, according to the British tabloid, the Sun. The paper ...
New York Magazine | Posted 05.31.2009 | Entertainment
Paula Abdul called in to a radio show this morning to explain her embarrassing appearance in Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno, which her blundering publicis...
New York Times | Dave Itzkoff | Posted 05.22.2009 | Entertainment
With the release of his latest mockumentary "Bruno" just a few months away, the comic provocateur and litigation magnet Sacha Baron Cohen was handed a...
mirror.co.uk | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
We're used to Bono banging on about feeding the world. But now he and Chris Martin have collaborated on a single that MOCKS the efforts of Band Aid...
The Wrap | Posted 04.29.2009 | Entertainment
Universal's "Bruno," the widely anticipated Sacha Baron Cohen docu-comedy opening in July, has been slapped with an NC-17 rating on its first submissi...
Slate | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
Presidential candidates will do almost anything for publicity. But Ron Paul's appearance in Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming Bruno movie suggests he draws...
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 04.16.2009 | Entertainment
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The actor best known as "Borat" tricked the Alabama National Guard into allowing him onto a post, giving him a military unifo...
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 03.19.2009 | Entertainment
Is one of Sacha Baron Cohen's tricks to getting access for his character Bruno feigning blood relationships to top executives? Last November Cohen,...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.09.2009 | Entertainment
Outrageous reports about Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" movie continue to come out. In the film Cohen plays a gay Austrian fashion journalist named Bruno...
The Sun, Huffington Post | Katherine Thompson | Posted 01.31.2009 | Entertainment
Details continue to leak about Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" film, and the latest report has him mocking Madonna. Cohen's movie (full title: "Bruno: D...
AP | Posted 12.18.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Even a make-believe psychic couldn't spot the scam when an actor disrupted a scene for "Medium" involving Patricia Arquette, who star...
NY Daily News | Rush & Molloy | Posted 12.13.2008 | Entertainment
Sacha Baron Cohen added something extra to "Bruno" that "Borat" just didn't have: paid porn actors. Cohen turned to a couple of pros for a sex scene i...
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Johann Hari | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment