A week after I bitched about how tired I was of Sacha Baron Cohen appearing on late-night television shows in character to promote his movies, he went on Letterman as himself to promote Bruno. And whaddaya know, he was totally funny and entertaining, and it was refreshing to not have a caricature of a flamboyantly gay Austrian flirting with the host for ten minutes.
Anyway, this is great because Cohen talks about his quest to interview an actual terrorist, and in the process reveals that he’s capable of smart, edgy humor that isn’t predicated on tricking people into thinking he’s some outlandish character. Believe me, it’s not easy to tell jokes about terrorism in this country. No matter how many times I try them out, my 9/11 jokes always seem to… bomb. Anyone? No? That’s okay, I know where the door is.
UPDATE - Video of the entire interview below. Cohen talks about some of the hijinks while filming Borat. It’s approximately 800,000 times better than him appearing in character as Bruno and starting sentences with “Ich’m…”
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My 9/11 jokes also fall flat.
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Knock knock
Who’s there?
9/11
9/11 who?
I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU’D NEVER FORGET!!!
The Onion had an article shortly after 9/11 that made me collapse (with laughter).
My 9/11 jokes are too inside.
My 9/11 jokes always go up in flames.
The wit of these 9/11 jokes blows me away.
9/11 is a joke?
Maybe he always goes on these shows in character so people don’t tune in only to be disappointed by mistaking this for another Adam Corolla interview…
+1 to Yamabushi tfor being a hardcore gangsta
True story: the Saturday after 9/11 my brother in law was in town from New Jersey. He worked in a service industry and mentioned that many of his customers worked at or near Ground Zero and were concerned about their jobs. I told him I had heard that the NYFD was hiring.
The moral of the story is for some people (especially assholes like me), it is never too soon.
You better appear, you fucking avatar.
Everytime I tell 9/11 jokes they crash and burn.
Every time I try to tell a 9/11 joke someone hijacks my audience.
911 is a joke in my town
– Flava Flave
Is the full video somewhere else? All I can find is the small snippet about the terrorist…
i dont get it
my wife is a terrorist.