Sensible Erection | Sascha Baron Cohen's new character revealed

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Sascha Baron Cohen's new character revealed

quote [ Craig Reucassel interviews comedy genius Sacha Baron Cohen in character as his latest creation: climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton. ]

Brilliant Aussie comedy. Lord Monckton for those who may not be familiar.

[humour] [by Omegaphobic@10:38amGMT] [+9 Funny]

Comments

Chop-Logik said @ 6:56am GMT on 20th Oct [Score:2 Interesting]
^{[MINIPOST] - Jirka Vinse Jonatan Väätäinen's photorealistic Disney Princesses}

sherlock said @ 3:20am GMT on 22nd Oct
It's interesting, but less impressive when you realize they are "photorealistic" because they are, in fact, just compositions of photos assembled in Photoshop.

Seneki69 said @ 11:06am GMT on 20th Oct
Classic.
Anyone catch Adam Spencer's interview with him a few months ago?

Classic.

sherlock said @ 11:35am GMT on 20th Oct
What a well done video. Had I not seen the Wikipedia entry I actually would still be unsure about whether Monckton were Cohen or not.

pleaides said @ 11:42am GMT on 20th Oct
I saw this last night and it did nothing for me, which is odd because the chaser boys can do no wrong in my mind.

fuckb4ll said @ 11:43am GMT on 20th Oct
the whole thing feels like David Mitchell to me, or something that would have come from the Mitchell and Webb show

tickaz said @ 12:03pm GMT on 20th Oct [Score:1 Funny]

TheCooler said @ 1:51pm GMT on 21st Oct
Eric Bana we hardly know ye

sanepride said @ 2:26pm GMT on 20th Oct
At first I thought this was pretty clever and funny. Then I remembered how many political characters we have here in the US that make Lord Monckton look like a rational genius. :(

sacrelicious said @ 10:35pm GMT on 20th Oct
what's worse: having real characters like this because they are poorly educated, often at second-rate universities, or having real characters like this in spite of the fact that they are highly educated at world-renowned universities?

metternich said @ 2:26pm GMT on 20th Oct
So is there a real Lord Monckton that SBC is pretending to be, or is the whole character fake, or is he a real dude? I'm confused

metternich said @ 2:36pm GMT on 20th Oct
Ok I get it.

KropperPrime said @ 4:38pm GMT on 20th Oct
*applaude*

midden said @ 3:18pm GMT on 20th Oct
Comedy is getting so complicated. But I like it.

piginspace said @ 3:29pm GMT on 20th Oct
Good stuff.
"But I *am* Lord Monckton!"

Lord Monckton said @ 4:40pm GMT on 20th Oct
No, I *am* Lord Monckton!!!

spite48 said @ 6:44pm GMT on 20th Oct
No, you're Sascha Baron Cohen.

Baron Monckton said @ 7:02pm GMT on 20th Oct
Sir, I served with Lord Cohen, I knew Lord Cohen, Lord Cohen was a friend of mine. Sir, he is not such a Baron Cohen!

Baron Sasha said @ 10:14pm GMT on 20th Oct
Ich bin ein Monckton!

sacrelicious said @ 10:38pm GMT on 20th Oct
I'm not Spartacus, that guy is. GET HIM!

LethalFlatulence said @ 7:02pm GMT on 21st Oct
No Spartacus, you are the Monkton

* (The Asshole FKA Morris) said @ 4:24pm GMT on 20th Oct
Still not entirely sure....Cohen or a real Lord?

Ankylosaur said @ 5:48pm GMT on 20th Oct
As the poet Horace once said, Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus.

f00m@nB@r said @ 5:38am GMT on 21st Oct
Indeed, now is the time for pedo bear.

graham said @ 2:11am GMT on 22nd Oct
cut loose.

Ankylosaur said @ 2:42am GMT on 22nd Oct
omnes laxis incisus!

Adam said @ 7:41am GMT on 22nd Oct
Ave bossa nova, similis bossa seneca.

midden said @ 4:12am GMT on 21st Oct
Neither.

feeling constipated said @ 5:49pm GMT on 20th Oct

devilsad said @ 6:59pm GMT on 20th Oct [Score:1 Insightful]
OK guys I think we've just had one of the 3 signs of the Apocalypse.

Those Youtube comments were actually useful.

Bodnoirbabe said @ 7:10pm GMT on 20th Oct
Poe's Law of Comedy.

f00m@nB@r said @ 7:41pm GMT on 20th Oct [Score:5 Funny]

Jewbacchus said @ 12:11am GMT on 21st Oct
I am confused. Monckton is a mingey politician from Britain, Baron-Cohen had nothing to do with this, and chasers are comedians from Australia and not pro-aids homosexuals?

f00m@nB@r said @ 12:39am GMT on 21st Oct
Yes. No. Maybe?

wallacks said @ 11:05pm GMT on 25th Oct
Hmm yeah, it's probably funnier if you don't know any of that.

bygshoe said @ 4:29am GMT on 21st Oct [Score:1 Informative]
Strange coincidence. I was wondering what Mr. Cohen was up to lately. For anyone interested from wikipedia:

It has been confirmed that Baron Cohen will star as Freddie Mercury of the rock band Queen in an upcoming film about the period in the band's history from 1971 leading up to the Live Aid concert in 1985. It was Baron Cohen himself who contacted screenwriter Peter Morgan with the idea of portraying the flamboyant lead singer. TIME commented with approval on his singing ability and visual similarity to Mercury. Baron Cohen will appear in Martin Scorsese's upcoming adventure film Hugo. Cohen's next film, The Dictator, will be a loose adaptation of the novel Zabibah and the King, written by Saddam Hussein. It will tell "the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed". Cohen will play the part of a Saddam Hussein type ruler who gets secretly replaced by a lookalike and then flees to New York. Borat and Bruno film director Larry Charles will direct the film.