1) isn’t funny, and

2) is a truly stupid idea.

If you or I took off our clothes and danced in an airport, we’d end up in a back room somewhere explaining our actions for an hour or two. And we’d be damn lucky if that’s all that happened. Times have changed, and the reasons for that sure as hell are not funny at all.

My beef with Sacha Baron Cohen is that he isn’t funny. Borat was boring. I don’t plan on viewing the Wichita clip because I don’t enjoy watching stupid people do stupid stuff in inappropriate places while not being funny. Or provocative. Or anything.

I’m no frat-boy, I’m a 25y.o Aussie female. I was unaware of Wichita’s history until your post (yes, I did read it). I appreciate it’s not the kind of place that takes jokes lightly, but I’d imagine that SBC would look for marks that are easy to provoke, otherwise the joke (however bad taste or offensive) fails.

As for my “truth hurts” comment – while a little glib, I still think it’s generally true. Most people who get worked up about comedians like SBC are the ones whose ignorances or prejudices are ridiculed and they get pissed when the world laughs at them by laughing at Borat etc. So they go on the rampage about how they were positioned or sue or whatever, instead of looking at why people were laughing in the first place. Like I said before, this was more directed to the “elitist” comments than the main article.

So yeah – I wasn’t intending to offend you or insult Wichita, so I apologise for not being clearer.

As far as *humour* goes, fucker, I am often accused of going way overboard and being *provocative* myself. However, I’m talking about a situation that cannot be exposed by some faux ivory-tower way of “busting stereotypes.” There are no stereotypes or hypothetical truths to be unearthed in this situation…. just hard, cold reality.

So, for him to come in and do his little dance looks just idiotic. He should have done his homework and stayed at the beach.

When his humor works it’s not when he’s having a laugh at our expense, it’s when he’s poking fun at ethnic stereotypes. Of course I wonder if people from Kazakhstan say just the reverse; maybe he is such a subtle genius that it plays equally well with both groups. He’s certainly richer than I am…

As for this latest stuff, there’s not much amusing about a body cavity search, so he may want to rethink his “comedy” routines that involve antagonizing airport security.

And oh, hahaha. Look at those simple little hicks in Wichita, they’ve never seen a gay man before. They think gays are terr’ists! Right. WTF. Arrogant asshats.

But when we have someone like Graham Norton around, the question is how edgy this humor actually is. (Aside from changing the context and doing it in, say, airports.)