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Sacha Baron Cohen may be the star but the person pushing the comedy envelope is often director Larry Charles Who is the man behind Borat , and now BrA1 4no ? Sacha Baron Cohen is the guy starring in the semi-improvised movie about BrA1 4no, the gay Austrian fashion expert he invented on Da Ali G Show ; he's the one who will participate in such ...
Area group offers free screening of `Religulous'
The Whittier Area Peace and Justice Coalition will be screening the Bill Maher film "Religulous" at 7 p.m. on Thursday at St.
"Bruno" is Borat-lite, and a little tedious
We all knew Borat. Borat was a friend of ours. Bruno, you're no Borat. Unfair to be sure, but because everyone is going to compare Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" to his insanely funny "Borat," let's be honest: While pushing the PC envelope in new and imaginative ways as well as the MPAA's R rating, especially insofar as the male member is concerned, ...
Check This Out: Bruno Punks Conan on the Tonight Show
This is why I frickin' love Sacha Baron Cohen so damn much. Not only is he able to just come up with this character and fool countless Americans to begin with, but he's able to keep up the act all the way until its actual release.
The world's most outspoken apatheist waltzes into town to unclasp the buckle of the Bible Belt and, if all goes well, pull its hypocritical, gun-toting, tea-bagging pants to the ground.
Is there any filmmaker alive, whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, capable of producing a truly incisive, intelligent satire about our politically polarized times? Not Ben Stein, who checked his dry wit at the door when he made the anti-Darwinist, pro-creationist diatribe "Expelled." Not Bill Maher, whose " Religulous" revealed ...
Contrarian Bill Maher ready for a red-state rumble
Maher, a stand-up comic since 1979 and a TV host for the past 15 years, has earned 21 Emmy nominations - first for "Politically Incorrect" on ABC, and for the past seven years for HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." He's also the author of four best-sellers, including his latest, "New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer." Asked what he ...
Maher's Obama rant gets reaction
Last Friday on his HBO talk show "Real Time," liberal comic Bill Maher decided to go on a rant against Barack Obama.
Bruno ist Coming - Three Crazy New TV Spots for Bruno
Universal has debuted three crazy new TV spots for Bruno , the summer comedy that I know everyone is just waiting to see.
Bill Maher returns to Vancouver
Controversial comedian, best-selling author, and filmmaker Bill Maher returns to Vancouver on November 14th, to perform his standup comedy act.
Charley Honey: 'DaVinci Code' follow-up 'Angels and Demons' is...
Robert Langdon encounters a scary sight in "Angels and Demons." Early on in " Angels and Demons ," the newly released would-be blockbuster movie, a Catholic prelate asks Harvard scholar Robert Langdon if he believes in God.
Bill Maher's ridiculous conceit
Bill Maher should have taken a course in firing full-auto weapons at Front Sight before he made his anti-religion documentary Religulous , because his method of shooting is what the military likes to call "spray and pray." Maher points his weapon - in this case a movie camera instead of an M-16 - in the general direction he thinks the enemy is then ...
'Absurdistan' a thorough comic charmer
With the women of their village on a sex strike until water service is restored, Kristyna Malerova and Maximilian Mauf, center, must figure out a way to get things flowing - or risk a long and frustrating personal dry spell.
Comedian Maher performing at fundraiser in June
For the last 15 years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television.
The Truth About the Scientology Myth
To many people, Scientology is known vaguely as a strange religion that has something to do with aliens.
Sacha Baron Cohen strikes again
The - Borat' lawsuits went nowhere. Expect fresh humiliations with the upcoming - BrA1 4no.' How many different ways are there to annoy people with a silly accent? That's a question that will soon be answered by Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles, the star and director who gave us Borat and now return with BrA1 4no, the story of a gay, Euro-trashy ...
a oeMos Defa v Hitchens and Rushdie
I can only assume that Mos Def has taken huge amounts of paranoia inducing drugs.
Thursday, April 16 a Political funny man Bill Maher comes to the Fox Theatre at 8 p.m. The show will likely feature material from his DVD "Religulous," which was released in February.
Westboro Baptist Church says it will protest Bill Maher in Kansas City
The Westboro Baptist Church announced in a news release that it will stage a picket in Kansas City to protest an appearance of Bill Maher at the Midland Theatre on Friday.
Twenty-five years ago this weekend, I was called on to do the job that every altar boy dreads: the Stations of the Cross.