LA Parents Don’t Want Bruno Pretending To Sodomise Their Kids

Mr. Cohen reminds me of that strange cousin that every family has: the one who is remotely entertaining for fifteen minutes, then they hang that inevitable sharp left down Weird Boulevard, and God turns the minutes to hours as you await the moment when they leave.

And speaking of fifteen minutes, Mr. Cohen, yours are about up.

@seyswho:
and they shouldn't have let them be jocks.

marfin

not a big SBC fan but come on - it's funny - look at it - laugh and move on to the next blog-
as far as LA goes, i love it, i hate it just as much as i love and hate NY-

budy920

@Conch: I do what I can. You can still have a 1x1 and not feel like you fucked off on a diet.. just keep away from the 20x20s and you'll be alright..

@Citizen Kang: don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!

labyrinthine IS DOING THIS

@riggssm: The world needs intellectualism. It doesn't need "intellectual snobbery".

I don't think this is much worse than the actual sport of American football. I mean guys not only stand in that position when playing the game, but they also tackle each other, pile up on one another and slap each others butts.

@Wrapitup:

Hey you stop that.

@MissNormaDesmond:

Finally, someone who didn't vote for Kodos!

@snugbug: Gawker has no "dudettes."

are friends electric?

@Citizen Kang: This is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking bureaucrats in Sacramento just can't handle. I think it's time for a special election (we haven't had one for weeks), and I vote Kang!

They should have done it at my (also LAUSD) high school just a few miles away. That place was super gay.

@snugbug: LA is my lady.

TabithaIapetus

I think I rented this movie on pay-per-view at a Days Inn once.

TabithaIapetus

@busterbluth: Block that kick!

@Dandy Darkly: This is absolutely true. I think some people are forgetting what it's like to be in high school. There's a very high goof threshold.

These aren't really "children."

@snugbug: Your burritos are crap.

That's all I'm saying DONE.

@intime: Yes, that wasn't funny at all....

ColbertNation

@blix: Tossing the 'ol foreskin is a wonderful pastime.

@FormerEnglishMajor: Because the last thing this world needs is intellectualism.

@contradicto: Context? Exactly what do YOU see when you see this picture? "Bruno" isn't even touching the football player, he is waiting for him to hike the ball. Is he humping the player or touching him inappropriately. No, He is playfully winking towards the camera, and other than his wardrobe, is doing absolutely nothing inappropriate. The only people who see stereotypes are those who have a problem with it. And how easily they jump on the perceived "homosexuals are pedophiles" stereotype. Were it an older woman and the same high school football players people might call her a cougar but not jump immediately to pedophile. And as you very well know, Sascha Baron Cohen is merely in character and a heterosexual making this moral outrage even more absurd since he isn't even gay.

@momof3wildkids: Oh please. You still don't get it. Bruno is not doing anything inappropriate. He has on skimpy clothes, and I'm pretty sure they see more than that in the locker room. What do you assume? That Bruno wants to sexually assault them or something? In which case it is your perverse thoughts that are seeping into this issue and making a controversy out of nothing. I could see the problem if these were 10yr old boys, but they are teenaged highschool football players. Trust me, I'm pretty sure they have already had crazier sexual encounters than hiking a ball to a flamboyant made up character. I'm calling bullshit on this one.

@I ♥ Bitchy Trampolines: I know he isn't gay and it wouldn't matter if he was. I would feel exactly the same way if it was a teenage girl leaning over and a hetero-Bruno had the same look on his face. It just isn't appropriate.

@contradicto: You said it perfectly. College kids, no problem. I especially have a problem with a principal pimping out his students this way. If it was no big deal, why didn't the principal don the jersey and get into a 3-point stance?

momof3wildkids

@Dances with cookies: Welcome to Los Angeles!

StonedAndDethroned

@I ♥ Bitchy Trampolines: Well fucking said! I too am so sick of this "for the sakes of the children" shit. Those kids probably thought it was a hoot and a half.

Any school that allows Sasha Baron Cohen on its property to film its students is asking for it!

I think they got what they deserved.

And I don't think Sasha is funny. I am still traumatized by that scene in his last film in which he's being chased around by that hideous fat, naked hairy man. Yikes!!

These people are so anal.

@I ♥ Bitchy Trampolines: I am very well aware that Sasha Baron Cohen is not gay. However, context is everything and give some misleading stereotypes that homosexuals are pedophiles, the photoshoot is in bad form. If it were a college football team I wouldn't have a problem.

@Conch: Aren't you in SF? Do you work near Fisherman's Wharf? In N Out for lunch sounds amazing, but also amazingly inconvenient.

@contradicto: You do realize that Bruno is not a real gay person right? As far as risque things go, this is hardly a blip on the sexy meter. If it had been a scantily clad buxom female model, I don't think anyone would be saying anything about this. Don't give me this "PLEASE SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN" shit. Get over yourselves.

@momof3wildkids:

If every man, woman, and child in the state gave $500 we'd be 2/3 of the way towards solving our budget crisis. If having Bruno standing behind every single one of us making a stupid face is what it takes, I believe the Governator is obligated to at least consider it.

@badasscat: Whether or not. The context kind of creeps me out.

@badasscat: Sure, SBC movies show the hypocrisy of certain levels.

But mostly his movies "show up" the idiots, while the ones you really want to show up as hypocrites - Mark Sanford or Craig Vitter-types, say - won't go on camera and you have to wait for self-destruction.

SBC does the same thing over and over and over - LaToya Jackson looking for screen time? Seeing if you can wave red in a homophobes' face? Cheap jokes that - I think - are intellectual and even elitist snobbery on his part.

All I know is my money is on whomever the Framingham Butt Pirates are playing this fall!

Mymoustache

@Angel Leon: You do realize he's not *actually* having sex with them, right?

@Angel Leon: I'm with you. The minor thing doesn't sit well with me.

Also, I'm assuming that some responsible adult was there during the shooting. Why didn't this person say, "Sorry, not appropriate. We are pulling the kids out of these shots."

Where they worried about losing $500?

momof3wildkids

@FormerEnglishMajor: Yeah, that Candid Camera really showed the hypocrisy of society.

Hollywood is so hypocritical when it comes to homosexuality it's unreal. On the outside it's all 'progressive' but god forbid you should be a gay leading man (most of them are) or, save for a few, aspire to reach an executive position above a junior level.

@Conch: Gracias! Now I've got "Going.. going.. back.. back.. to Cali.. Cali.." stuck in my head!

snugbug

@seyswho: heh.

@Colonel Mustard: Always hitting the nail on the head, you.

@snugbug: It's the lousy weather on the East Coast that's making Gawker staffer angry at California. It been hot and cold, hot and cold, and then rain for the last 2 weeks.

Paul.B.Dodd

@lobstr: Why did you have to mention In N Out? Now I'm def having that for lunch and, inevitably, f'ing up my weeklong starvation diet in anticipation of the 4th. Thanks a lot, dick.

Cohen's lawyers have the best job in the business.

I love his characters, but I'm Not sure if its cool doing this with minors, it's almost pedo-gay. I guess there's no line he won't cross.

Angel Leon

The REAL crime is how totally unsexy the photos turned out to be.

@blix: Roughness only applies to the pigskins.

@snugbug: The only saving grace of LA is In N Out Burger, and the fact that Jeopardy! is filmed there. Otherwise, it doesn't touch NYC on a million levels.

@Conch: I really hate myself for saying Cali.

@snugbug: Gawker hates Cali as a whole, dude.

What'z up with this abundant anti-LA 'tude on Gawker lately? C'mon, dudes (+ dudettes), you know this is where it's at.. We're the multi-culti model city of the future! Complete with jaw-rattlingly awesome roads, daily traffic gridlock, gang shootouts, AND heavenly burritos! Goodwills where you can purchase designer outfits for peanuts! Surfing! Free parking! (If you deviously jam a paper clip into the meter slot so it confuses the electronic chip, that is.)

Seriously, I adore L.A. It's gross and terrible but also sublime, and it's.. home.

snugbug

Wait, did anyone else click through to the L.A. Daily News link with this headline:

LAUSD to decipline Birmingham High School administrators over "Bruno" photo shoot

Decipline? Is that a word? That's actually in the headline? Did they fire all the copy editors? OMG

Dances with cookies

@FormerEnglishMajor: Yeah, totally agree. Ali G? Borat? Bruno? SOOO unvaried. They're all the same.

Funt? Now that guy was clever.

ligmasagbatch

@FormerEnglishMajor: And who would have thought homophobic people would get angry at two guys making out? Groundbreaking right there.

Did anyone see this movie? I am waiting for it to come out on netflix next week.

I'd love to see one of those permission slips.

kneetoe

@contradicto: Yes, unless he gets called for illegal roughness of trade.

LOL. Too funny.

@blix: Do you think Bruno can go long?

If these parents are so concerned about their kids having things shoved up their asses, they should probably keep them out of college.

Preparing for the desperate "Oh Mary" pass.

I am so sick of Sascha Baron Cohen. Hey - you can trick dumb people into doing stupid things on camera? Allen Funt at least varied the jokes more.

Also, are people BLIND in LA? He doesn't look like he's boning the football players, he looks like he's thinking about it. Or maybe he doesn't look like he's thinking about it! Maybe all you overprotective parents are just dirty-minded fuckers!

Perhaps Not