Word: sacha
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...return journey. "Jerry Seinfeld forgot his keys," Rock announced, "and is going back to get them." Seinfeld managed to be his usual blasé self, saying as he flew, "They tell me Scorsese did the same thing last year for Departed." When Rock reminded him of the skimpy costume Sacha Baron Cohen wore on the Croisette last year - ?You know Borat just showed up in his underwear? - Seinfeld claimed, ?I?m wearing the same outfit underneath. In yellow.? And finally he flew down again - three trips in all - before disappearing into a hole in the stage to change back into...
...flashing, went to Friday's weigh-in, a much-ignored ceremony in which the fighters stand on a scale in their underwear. On fight night, 19 HBO television cameras followed the action with one dedicated to getting facial reactions from the fifty deep contingent of celebrities, including Helen Mirren, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sean Combs, Tobey Maguire, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Lopez, whose husband, Marc Anthony crooned the national anthem...
...jerk? Although there is a line between satire and insult, it seems to me the line is very clear. I think hip-hop music is offensive, so I don't listen to it. I thought Imus was offensive, so I didn't listen to him. Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Sacha Baron Cohen and Sarah Silverman are funny because they point out painful truths in our culture. Meredith Hodgkinson, Austin, Texas...
...hard to imagine that a white Dave Chappelle would have much success casually tossing around the n-word on national television. Similarly, if a gentile comedian told us to “throw the Jew down the well,” it would lead to an uproar, but when Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat character did, it landed him a hit TV show and an Oscar-nominated film...
...that there is one. Which may be true. That's finally why "Where's the line?" is a misleading question. There are as many lines as there are people. We draw and redraw them by constantly arguing them. This is how we avoid throwing out the brilliance of a Sacha Baron Cohen - who offends us to point out absurdities in our society, not just to make "idiot comments meant to be amusing" - with a shock jock's dirty bathwater. It's a draining, polarizing but necessary process...