it's amazing to me the commitment Sacha has to his characters...
...and the things he is willing to do for comedy.
He's a rather edgy comedian for sure. Which I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. With his type of comedy, you either love it or hate it, there is no room for middle ground. If you look at other comedy writers like Mel Brooks and Woody Allen that also starred in their films, you will likely get a much bigger audience of devoted fans than you will with Cohen. Again, you either love his work or you hate it.
shareWell, I don't know: in Bruno, for instance, some moments were just painfully unfunny, whereas from some others I almost fell off my couch I was laughing so hard. So I'd describe it as more hit or miss, rather than love it or hate it. Although you do have to be quite open-minded to appreciate his brand of humor, of course.
in Bruno, for instance, some moments were just painfully unfunny, whereas from some others I almost fell off my couch I was laughing so hard
Yeah, that's true. There are very few scenes in Bruno that are genuinely funny but I died at the Ron Paul scene, the psychic scene and the cage fight scene, damn that was funny!!
So I'd describe it as more hit or miss, rather than love it or hate it.
Crude/raunchy/PC incorrect humor is something people either like or they don't and I think Cohen is most known for this. For example... he seems to have an obsession with male nudity. I mean, to some people that will be funny, to others it will just be dumb or maybe even offensive. Of course, he's not the first to do male nudes, I remember back in the day when Monty Python films had male nudity and people thought it was funny. I guess it's the way Cohen does it, it's like he's just trying to be grotesque instead of funny and it just turns people off.
Although you do have to be quite open-minded to appreciate his brand of humor
Well technically speaking, he's not the first one to do this brand of humor. There's been some others, he kind of reminds me of Andy Kaufman. Andy would play jokes on people that were not expecting it. They eventually started to call his act performance art which I can see Kaufman's work being a huge influence in Bruno.
To Kaufman, it was all about testing boundaries just to see how people will react to it. I get this vibe from Cohen. He's a performance artist rather than a comedian. share