bruno-related stories
Posted Sep 19th 2009 5:03PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, The Simpsons, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Practically every other celebrity on Earth has been a guest voice on
The Simpsons. Hell, then even managed to land the reclusive author Alan Moore for a comic book-themed episode. Now,
Borat and
Bruno star
Sacha Baron Cohen will be lending his voice to an episode of the animated series.
Supposedly, Cohen will play an "angry but funny" tour guide that helps them while the family tours Israel with their church group. For such a low income family, the Simpsons sure get to tour a lot of different countries. Homer even went up into space at one point.
Cohen will not be playing any of his trademark characters, and that's probably for the best. They were getting a little stale anyway. Perhaps he could invent a new character (or at least a character voice) for this appearance.
In other facts about the episode, Homer gets Jerusalem complex while visiting and thinks he's God. And to the Fox network, he is.
Posted Jul 11th 2009 9:03AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Site Announcements, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
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Posted Jun 4th 2009 1:07PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Music and Variety, Celebrities, Awards, Reality-Free
I was fine with the initial story that
it may have been a hoax, because it was news. After all the stunt Sacha "Bruno" Baron Cohen pulled putting his ass in the notoriously sensitive Eminem's face was the big buzz moment of the
MTV Movie Awards. But it didn't stop there. Finally, after speculation and reports all week about it,
Eminem admitted it was a stunt. Fine. Great. Does this mean it's over? I can't tell you how many "news" stories I read about this.
Everyone had their own take on it. You'd have thought it was the JFK assassination all over again. "There was one shooter with a camera zoomed in on Eminem's face. That's the only person who knew what was happening." "Impossible. Who worked the rig that lowered Cohen? Clearly there was a conspiracy." "But Eminem had to have been in on that conspiracy. Can you really lower a man on top of someone without them knowing it." "Perhaps, but did Em know Cohen's ass was bare." "Oh I think he most certainly did." Who cares, honestly?!
Posted Jun 2nd 2009 9:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Music and Variety, Awards, Reality-Free
It looks like Eminem wasn't the real butt of Sacha Baron Cohen's prank at the MTV Movie Awards. (And yes, I do get paid by AOL to write jokes. God bless the writer's strike!)
Entertainment Weekly confirmed from an unidentified source close to the network that Cohen said the prank was staged and that Eminem wasn't really mad that he got a face full of ass.
EW also reported that Scott Aukerman, the show's head writer who comedy geeks will recognize as a
Mr. Show actor/writer and one-half of the comedy duo The Fun Bunch, leaked the news on
his blog. That entry seemed to have disappeared from his blog as fast as Eminem's ass-smelling face from the awards show.
Continue reading Bruno and Eminem's ass face prank was a hoax
Posted Jun 1st 2009 4:28PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Celebrities, Awards, Reality-Free
OK, so you might have heard that Bruno (aka Sacha Baron Cohen) fell from the sky last night at the
MTV Movie Awards and shoved his rear into Eminem's face. Was Eminem really surprised and ticked off by this, so irritated that he and his crew actually left the show? I'm leaning towards no. You can see Eminem "acting" as he looks up (the camera just happens to be on him), and then Bruno lands on him perfectly. I guess it could be true, but I'm not quite buying it. The funny moment is when he announces Zac Efron the winner of some award and Efron isn't even sure what the hell is going on.
Posted Nov 17th 2008 7:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
This is actually kinda funny and I'm surprised no one has attempted this before.
Sacha Baron Cohen, also known as Borat, was
somehow cast as an extra for an episode of NBC's Medium, and in typical Borat fashion he disrupted the scene. In fact, he screwed things up so much that the show had to shut down filming for a while on November 7.
Actually, Cohen wasn't Borat in the footage he was Bruno, one of Cohen's other characters.
Continue reading Sacha Baron Cohen disrupts Medium filming
Posted Dec 2nd 2006 2:24PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Video, Commercials, Celebrities
There's an old British 'Where Are They Now'-type special up
on YouTube that is all about Sacha Baron Cohen. The special looks a little dated because it focuses on his work on television as Ali G, and it shows Kristoff, an Albanian reporter character that strongly resembles Borat. It chronicles Cohen's childhood-- he attended an affluent school and then went to Cambridge. There are some old, cringe-worthy video clips of him and his brother ridiculing Jews and of Cohen hosting various cable access shows. One interesting revelation is a picture is of Cohen as a model. That's right- behind the Ali G and Borat characters is a rather good-looking fellow. His short stint as a fashion model reportedly inspired his red carpet reporter character, Bruno.
The video is after the jump. It's pretty long, so if you just want to see the modeling bit, it's at 8:00.
Continue reading Sacha Baron Cohen, former male model - VIDEO
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