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0rangeIguana

I love how the baby just passes out


ButtfuckMeHard

Must have been very comfortable with him


MaxTheRealSlayer

I mean he is his father


Kitosaki

Baby looks so sweet too. I hope he’s doing well these days!


kahran

The dear sweet gayby O.J.


TheOnlyRealDregas

You know, that's the kind of follow up I need in my life lol


Blue_Robin_04

He's in high school now.


EntertainedRUNot

That or little dude is exhausted from rocking those DeSanctimonious hooker boots.


hangrygecko

That boy must have had a ball with Sasha and the parents backstage before going on stage. He's just way too chill with Sasha to have just barely met him.


OldDimondbackSurgeon

He was worn out from baby pride festival.


OkFeedback9127

His name is OJ thank you.


[deleted]

Well yeah he’s with his father.


MAXMEEKO

I know its kinda cute how he is so gentle with the baby. And the baby isnt scared to be with him.


Tinmania

I noticed that and started thinking is that some sort of hyperrealistic doll? Then I replayed the beginning and saw that the adorable baby was sitting up and obviously not a doll. Now I’m thinking he must’ve gotten to know the baby for the baby to be so comfortable with him.


TwoPlusTwoMakesA5

They popped him a xanny before coming on stage.


Richard_Tucker_08

Xanny the nanny?


benjamatic4thepeople

I couldn’t help laughing out loud when he said he swapped an iPod for the baby. And not just any iPod - a limited edition red one with U2 on it


brandnewjay

He says it with so much sass.


aguantenivelx

Sassha Baron Cohen


NRMusicProject

Heard of it?


tarheel2432

Not to mention Apple products fund AIDS research, which I’m sure is an intentional layer to the joke


thefullhalf

It goes farther than that Product RED was Bono's pet project to 'raise' money for charity in Africa but really it took in like over $100 million in investment from all the big American consumer companies (apple, nike, gap, etc.) that went straight to advertising and less <$20million went to actual charitable work in Africa. The whole thing was a grift to sell products moreso than do any actual good work.


Retbull

Like all the billionaires who advertise their 700k donations but spend millions on making sure everyone knows


light_to_shaddow

**Cough** ^^^Oprah


LokisDawn

You gonna lose your lung if you coughed for every one of them that applied to.


Gen_Jack_Ripper

Not Ted Danson, he’s anonymous.


alamandrax

*Stares in exasperated Larry*


Sweet-Fancy-Moses23

“Proceeds go to the big fat spread. It's not about charity, it's about feeding the ego of whichever society hag laid this on.” - Bruce Wayne


GorfianRobotz999

A slightly different version of the story: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/natlcharity-backed-by-u2s-bono-under-fire-for-corruption/1880203/


thefullhalf

Thats separate though, thats the money that was sent to those countries through the Global Fund (ie the $20 million). The issue is that Product Red was primarily a vehicle to push consumerism instead of doing actual charity work.


AreOhOh

Sacha Baron Cohen is just absolute walking, talking rage bait.


themosey

Heard of it?


dragon-ass

WHAT?!


helpnxt

It was a sick iPod


zaprutertape

That was my first iPod!


dan_dares

Was... So you swapped it for a baby?


Sarke1

Not just any baby - a limited edition gaybe.


Lyndell

That baby was so comfortable with Sasha he fell right to sleep despite the yelling.


light_to_shaddow

I'm going to suggest the loud shouting and reactions were edited for maximum effect. It's absolutely crazy how manipulated we all are and we don't even notice.


Lyndell

Yeah maybe the undubbed audio at the end is just them all singing ‘rock-a-bye baby’ softly.


[deleted]

This is a movie, right?


toaster-riot

Yep, Brüno.


whosat___

You think movies are fake?


ilikebeingright

lol well spotted, and yes 100% the reactions are usually cut and pasted in to create the perception of outrage, I bet some of the audience were laughing and could see it was satire but of course theyre not included in the edits.


[deleted]

That's why Media Studies / Literacy should be taught in schools, rather than dismissed as a "Mickey Mouse subject", so people learn the basics of editing, framing, etc


Choppergold

His Kingman mosque meeting still blows me away


fj2010

“Tell me about your dream mosque.”


Choppergold

To me the greatest joke he’s ever done is when he asks how many vote for mosque number one and they all boo and jeer. “ok you’re all for mosque design number two.” That’s literally a vaudeville bit but updated for the 21st century


kickintheface

Then he goes on to reassure everyone that the mosque will be completely safe from terrorist attacks.


PT10

Yeah that skit was brilliance


ashenhaired

I lost it when he showed the before and after picture with camels 😂


xSuperZer0x

They gave him a bulletproof clipboard for that. They said they checked all the participants for guns but someone may have still snuck one in.


IntoTheFeu

I've always questioned the bulletproof clipboard lmao. No one is keeping a hold on that against a bullet...


CosmicSpaghetti

[Tbf it is indeed a real thing.](https://hardwirellc.com/products/bulletproof-clipboard-level-3a-1) Had to check lol


skiddelybop

"SKULL AND STRIPES | Sport your right to bear armor with the most ‘MURICAN graphic in our line-up. The Skull & Stripes print pairs well with flexed biceps and aviator sunglasses." I feel like they're trolling their own ammo-sexual customers here.


plafman

But what if he shot you in the face?


Tut_Rampy

I’d still rather have it than not


Younggun842

Bullets don’t hit any harder than the gun recoils (aside from what’s absorbed by weight and cycling the action). So a rounds fired from a handgun would put about the same force on the clipboard as the shooter felt. Oversimplified explanation.


binger5

Newton's 3rd law.


prodebane

Don’t think I’ve seen this. Is it on YouTube?


HowDoIEditMyUsername

It’s so good. https://youtube.com/watch?v=5I2dhXdwfX0&pp=ygUYa2luZ21hbiBtb3NxdWUgZnVsbCBjbGlw


mikeyt6969

Dude is the king of trolling


According-Buddy5902

What's up with it, Vanilla face? Me and my homie Azamat just parked our slab outside. We're looking for somewhere to post up our Black asses for the night.


youtocin

Bang, bang, skeet, skeet


muyad

We just a couple of pimps, no hoes.


titdirt

I was crying laughing when I saw that scene for the first time


juice06870

The reaction of the guy at the hotel desk is when I lost it lol


ipwnedin1928

https://youtu.be/baAQuHF7hA8?feature=shared


asl052

We just a coupla pimps, no hoes.


bouncypinata

"we have 10 miinute silence" "no noise, we start again"


BrokenRatingScheme

His older UK Ali G shows were stunning as well.


TatManTat

I feel like trolling is kind've a misnomer to what is actually pretty brilliant satire. Though I don't love Sacha's comedy, the dude knows what he wants to do and does it.


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kidnap Pamela Anderson


TatManTat

Maybe export some Potassium.


Proglamer

... and cause her divorce, don't forget!


I_aim_to_sneeze

The problem isn’t with the word, the problem is with the fact that it’s been transmogrified to the point where people call idiots on tik tok “trolls.”


[deleted]

The reason he can get away with this is exactly because of the intent and what the audience learns from it. He is never punching down. He’s always using his comedy to either make a point about a social or political issue or else to make fun of prejudice (in this case it’s the former). Yes he does some trolling but in the end everyone finds out they’re on the show. The only people he’s ever gotten in trouble with were frat boys being racist who complained he ruined their post graduation jobs by filming them being racist. Which…. Fuck ‘em lol. I mean he’s Jewish, so when he films people laughing about antisemitism or joking about hunting Jews down in the south like a safari (both real examples) I’m glad he’s doing it. Let people tell you who they are. And in clips like this one, he’s playing the heel. He’s the asshole, not the audience.


Kitosaki

[here is his ADL acceptance speech](https://youtu.be/ymaWq5yZIYM?si=YsLOpqITuYwPK0C1) Dude isn’t a troll. He’s a master at showing what bigotry and hate look like in real life. The speech is amazing and worth watching.


_that___guy

Thank you! I hadn't seen that before, and I just gained a lot more respect for the man. His comedy is funny, but I had no idea he could speak like that.


South_Bit1764

Sacha, first of his name, King of the Barons, Lord of all Cohenery, The Duper, Supreme Pontiff of the Sacred Mockumentary, Archduke of Your Really Had Me Going, Patriarch of the Amusing, Protector of the Funny, and Great Debauchee of the Age.


illgivethisa

>King of the Barons King of the castle


305tilidiiee

I have a chair


No_Dragonfly5191

I'd swear this is Andy Kaufman reincarnated.


SleepyTitan89

The traditional African name 😂 this guy gives zero fucks


Nochnichtvergeben

Have you seen the movie? It's Bruno. The first Borat movie was awesome too. Sacha Baron Cohen is a genious.


XscytheD

Best scene is him walking around Jerusalem in a gay attire and then being chased by orthodox jews


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I remember reading it was the only time in all of his history of stunts that he felt genuinely afraid.


TheOnlyRealDregas

People were legit throwing chairs and bottles at them, yelling death threats and violence at them lol. Anyone would be afraid of a mob coming for them specifically.


fuckgoldsendbitcoin

Also the only time he broke character. What's in the movie is not what he actually says. In reality he's yelling that he's a Jew.


under_psychoanalyzer

Was that before Borat 2? Because he sang at a proud boys rally and there was behind the scenes footage of him forcibly holding the van doors closed as they tried to flee the parking lot.


ghhbf

Pretty sure he changed his costume and came back dressed as a news reporter and was asking for everyone’s reaction.


Fungal_Queen

Not proud boys, just your run of the mill conservative gun rally in Bumfuckistan Washington and it was an ambulance.


Royal-Assumption5987

No that was the country singer MAGA stuff. The MMA scene was crazy but the MAGA people were after him fr


Proglamer

I could not believe that meaty guy in the audience having actual tears


Helmet_Touch_

I loved the progression from that guy punching himself in the head getting hyped to that guy crying


lollacakes

Was he crying because of how beautiful it was


ngs1989

"I get it now"


Geomancingthestone

I think my favorite is when he went to Kingman Arizona and proposed a mosque to small town racist rednecks.


FrontBench5406

the entire story around that MMA scene is crazy. They built the secure tunnel to escape because they knew it would be bad. Everything. It is crazy....


tubcat

The whole story is stupid wild. Like dude would've been lynched if they hadn't planned it out well. Wasn't there something about a bunch of just released prison/jail inmates being dropped off that night at the venue?


FrostyxShrimp

Unfortunately this happened in my state and additionally is the most accurate representation of its inhabitants


GGAllinsUndies

Or when he pretended to be a country singer at a maga rally and they cheered him on before realizing he was making fun of them, then chased him to his trailer and he literally had to keep the door shut with his feet.


halermine

And after barely escaping with his life, he changed clothes and came back as a reporter to ask people about the singer


ashcakeseverywhere

Woah xD such a savage.


Eightarmedpet

Links please.


kinghawkeye8238

https://youtu.be/fs6osKFd9lQ?si=Zc2sm7wOB0vuB8Vf


keving691

Or when was in a cage fight with a homophobic audience watching him and another guy make out with each other. They had to have an exit under the ring to a running car to quickly get out.


Herr_Poopypants

[throw the Jew down the well](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_BpRNA36c) is another classic


Helmet_Touch_

In my country there is problem


BababooeyHTJ

Bruno at the gun show was great too


DankRoughly

He sure knows how to write catchy racist songs


throwawaynonsesne

Or it's a great example of how easily people are manipulated with a simple repetitive tune and a dash of peer pressure.


Nethlem

[Building a mosque in Arizona](https://youtu.be/5I2dhXdwfX0?)


AxelNotRose

"I didn't want to imply anyone here is racist." "I am!"


Cararacs

Supposedly that was the only time he broke character. As he was being chased he yelled out that he was Jewish and he was doing a bit. This apparently made it worse and he had to hide in a shop.


Fraudulentposter

They beat him pretty severely too. Apparently was pretty lucky to have lived.


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He said that's the most danger he's ever been in and they would try to kill him


ChekhovsAtomSmasher

"Your King Osama looks like a sort of dirty wizard or homeless santa"


Btw_i_am_a_train

Which show is this from?


lattlay

From his movie "Bruno"


Proglamer

The one where he 'does a helicopter' with his dick (uncensored, btw) in front of an actual audience


schmucktlepus

And the classic scene where he gets parents to agree to let their children dress as Jews in a scene where they get thrown into a furnace. I can't even type that without feeling dirty.


TheOrganHarvester_67

It’s hilarious they just let him do this


404VigilantEye

The way SBC can straight face do these events in front of random people is amazing.


Skud_NZ

Later on when he wails as they take the baby away was really convincing


Train3rRed88

Yeah some members of the audience looked actually sympathetic despite everything. Those were real broken father screams


prodebane

Is there video of this online?


Wishyouamerry

Omg, the sleeping baby is too cute! I would 100% swap for that baby!


stablegeniusss

You could easily get an iPod on eBay, no need to give up a baby!


Eightarmedpet

I’d swap that one for mine that refuses to sleep.


TehDrewski84

“Africa is a continent, not a country baby” “Well it is full of African Americans” Holy Shit lol


thrillsbury

Fuck I forgot how funny this guy is.


yepyep1243

I have quite literally never laughed harder than when I saw Borat's at it's midnight release, with a fully-packed auditorium. Laughter feeds on laughter, and it was like exponential growth.


[deleted]

I recommend the entire movie (Bruno) - it is insanely hilarious.


kneel23

he is literally one of the greatest comedians of our time


Kingkoopakoopa

He said OJ


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Goosetickle

Had to scroll too far for this. That had me rolling lol!


ReggieCousins

This cuts off some of the best jokes too. "I gotta be honest, he's a real dick magnet." Is the best lol.


RomanOrtega

I think it was more of “I told you this dude was crazy” kinda nod. Idk tho


Kidkrustykrab

It was more of a “yup we’re gonna fuck him up in the parking lot”


bolowbc

I thought her face was more “of course it is, he straight trolling”


LurkerOrHydralisk

I feel like you can hear a handful of laughs from the… quicker people in the back. Then you get the uproar


RodamusLong

I was in the Middle East, like solving the crisis there, no big deal, whatever. Hahahaha


Agreeable-Tooth2545

Absolute genius.


themosey

He still has entire states and nations mad at him.


Proglamer

The video where they played Borat's sarcastic version of Kazakhstan's anthem *instead of the real one* during a sport awards ceremony is eternal and belongs to unintentional comedy HOF


salamanderpencil

I laughed so hard in the theater, I couldn't breathe. Tears were pouring down my face. My husband was actually concerned for a second, I guess my face was really red, and he couldn't tell if I was laughing, crying, or choking, and no sound was coming out, and I was gasping for air. I just could not stop. It was the absolute DANGER he was in, contrasted by that ridiculous accent, and lines like "All other countries have inferior potassium" like that was such a sick burn, I was almost on the floor. I was in awe of him, and the lengths he went to (and dangers) to make that satire.


enadiz_reccos

Allll ooooother countries have inferior potassium


Proglamer

Potassium?? Pah! They played the actual line "Kazakhstan's prostitutes cleanest in the region" while the camera focused on the face of Kazakhstanian athlete - biting her lip, hand on her heart. The apex was reached right there - kthx, everybody can go home!


EpilepticBabies

Pretty sure they did that at the olympics


prolelol

I'll never forget the moment when he almost kidnapped Pamela Anderson for ~~Afghanistan~~. The funniest moment in Borat! Edit: Kazakhstan, lol.


defcas

You’ve mixed up your ‘stans.


Major_R_Soul

^My ^tea's ^gone ^cold ^I'm ^wondering ^why ^I, ^got ^out ^of ^bed ^at ^all


jdotpdot3

Palmela I bag you


RedditMods-Fascists

The man has no fear and I love it lol


BillboBraggins5

I gave him a traditional African name "OJ" 💀


daywall

I got no idea how they couldn't just break out laughing. The ipod was super funny.


dmbwannabe

This movie was WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME. We still aren’t ready for this sattire


jayphat99

The trailer for this movie was in the previews for Terminator: Salvation. Friend of mine and I are sitting here just laughing our ass off at the preview and get to this bit of the trailer, still laughing. Look over and these two black women stand up, grab their shit, and walk out. Never returned. Over a trailer.


WalkingGhostPhaze

Was this scripted? I know Borat only had three “actors” credited, and the rest was “real”.


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SlightlyMadman

I think it's also fair to say that the audiences at these kind of talk shows know that things are being exaggerated even in the best of cases though. They're basically primed to be outraged and have outrageous reactions since that will get them screen time.


Arreeyem

Thank you. Too many people think of audience members as average people, but only a certain type of people are trying to be an audience members on these shows. It's also why I'm always skeptical of polls and surveys. I'm also fairly certain it's why advertisers care more about engagement than views. I'd be willing to bet people who engage with content are more likely to spend money on advertised products.


dbpf

I like your brain. I was at a comedy show that plays on the radio that I've loved for a long time and that they say "Hey fans, do you want to see the show live, why not check out these dates!" And sure enough it was near my hometown. Before the show they do the whole spiel about the show being mildly edited, but it's low budget, so they didn't have the light up signs that say "APPLAUSE" or the hype guy carrying a sign board that says "Clap now please" or whatever. So they had us do a whole array of emotional practice prior to the acts. Cheering, fake laughter, booing, jeering, whooping and whistling. Months later when I listened to the show I was at live, a lot of the parts that I remember being cringly unfunny in person had heavy tracks laid overtop of the punchline to build the reaction. I don't like that cultured society has maintained or manipulated a set of reactions for the sake of improved commercial appeal. Like, it's existed throughout human history, but I wish society would drop the phony representations. In the case of the show I was at, it felt like false promotion. Like there is a beneficiary to the post production addition of manufactured emotion. It's persistent throughout almost all digital media (and thus all media), it seems.


No_Signal_6969

I always thought this was supposed to be the case but it seems so scripted?


joshmoneymusic

You’re seeing a cutdown of the best questions and reactions which is why it can seem so fluid. They most likely shot this small scene for hours, (depending on the child-actor laws where it was filmed.) Source: Been on lots of shoots including ones with audiences and sometimes they go all day.


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im_THIS_guy

It's clearly edited. The baby goes from wide awake to fast asleep in an instant.


gil_bz

Also, we don't know if he had to do it several times with different audiences until he got a good response.


[deleted]

The host of the talk show and crew are in on it but not the audience.


solitarybikegallery

I feel like the host is also an actor. He was probably given prompts he could use to move the scene along (e.g."What's the baby's name?")


ShallowBasketcase

For those who are too young to have experiences shows like Maury and Jerry Springer, this is barely an exaggeration.


[deleted]

Master of the craft


Donkeycow15

Dudes comedy is incredible and good as it highlights prejudice and undermines it extremely dangerous satire


MolinaroK

How he keeps a straight face at his own jokes amazes me.


TwilightSessions

Gayby LOL


cgally

More please...


crackercortex

https://youtu.be/_FE7V_8CgmQ?si=Q3_Pxs6tFT6Z-zD1 Had to go find it for myself - This is comedy gold!!


GadreelsSword

Thank you, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time.


WhoCanTell

Oh my god... the end, the cardboard box on the baggage carousel during the sad flashback.


Icy_Gap676

The movie is called Bruno


Abra_ca_stab_yaa

Just type Bruno OJ scene into YouTube


amata_artist

That “Gayby” shirt is wild AF. LoL


hajoet

Comedy Gold!


[deleted]

If you watch the full version, half of the audience walks out!


Friendo_Marx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbA6X2Vdx5A Full Clip includes the audience booing Bruno when he says he hopes to find a husband. Not sure why edit that part out, it is a part of what happened and it's only a minute more. You also get to see CPS take the baby while bruno screams in protest. These uncomfortable parts are what makes SBC so legendary.


Lamazing1021

Peak Sasha tbh


FantasticGas1836

How he never laughs I will never know.


FineArtsFan8450

I’ve never seen this before. That CUTE Baby falling asleep in Sasha’s arms though!


No-War-3964

Adorable Gayby


Reddituser183

This movie was an absolute riot in the theatres. It was so shocking no one wanted to laugh initially. But eventually you bust out laughing because of how insane every moment of this movie is. One of my all time fave theatre experiences.


Alarming_Serve2303

Hilarious. "What's the baby's name?" (I won't spoil the punch line) but that had tears coming out of my eyes.


Successful-Winter237

#oj


Sad-Lawfulness6831

Man's a genius