― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:20 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)
My friend in Washington D.C. attended an early screening or premier screening, or whatever the hell it is, because of some sort of inside connection. And he sat directly behind none other than JOHN KERRY! I have nothing else to report.
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:34 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)
That WaPo piece leads me to believe that Fred Dalton Thompson is probably a cooler guy than one might think.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)
-- Mickey (mi...), January 10th, 2006.
Pull the stick out of your ass you fucking coward.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)
...erm, if you read the link I put in, this is not as surprising as all that. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:57 (twenty years ago)
i think it was the other way around.
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:57 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:00 (twenty years ago)
I initially read that as 'crab countries.'
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)
see, i already forget what i read in the NYT. i thought they tried to do it in middle east countries, but it was no go.
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:34 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)
― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:10 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:36 (twenty years ago)
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)
Something you're not telling us? Don't worry, people would respect you more if you stuck to your own native vernacular.
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)
I also just really wanted to call someone conservative a coward. Stop living in fear, cowards!
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:56 (twenty years ago)
xpost way to ruin the banter, cowards.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:56 (twenty years ago)
Didn't John Cage already do something like this?
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)
xp hahaha!
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)
― Ian in Brooklyn, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 06:18 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 06:22 (twenty years ago)
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 06:25 (twenty years ago)
― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 06:37 (twenty years ago)
has anyone seen any muslim comedy. i knew a guy who djed in priština once, he mentioned something about a comedian they saw there, i should find out more, though i suppose it was all in albanian
― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 06:58 (twenty years ago)
A group of philosophers travelled far and wide to find, and contemplated for many years, the end of the world but could not state a time for its coming. Finally they turned to Nasreddin Hoja and asked him:
- Do you know when the end of the world will be?- Of course, said he, when I die, that will be the end of the world.- When you die? Are you sure?- It will be for me, said he.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:14 (twenty years ago)
Nasreddin Hoja was awakened one night by the cries of two quarreling men in front of his house. Wrapping his blanket tightly around his shoulders, he rushed outside to separate the men who had come to blows. But when he tried to reason with them, one of them snatched the blanket off Hoja's shoulders and ran away. Nasreddin Hoja, very weary and perplexed, returned to his house.
"What was the quarrel about?" his wife asked. "About our blanket," replied Nasreddin Hoja. "The blanket is gone, the quarrel is over."
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:15 (twenty years ago)
It was Nasreddin Hoja's wedding day. As the marriage had been arranged, he had not yet seen his bride's face. After the ceremony, when she removed her veil, Nasreddin Hoja realized that she was a terribly ugly woman. He was stunned. While he could not say a word, his bride spoke coyly.
"I am at you command, my dear husband," she said. "Now tell me, in front of whom shall I remained veiled, and to whom shall I be allowed to show my face?"
"Show your face to anyone you like," Nasreddin Hoja groaned, "so long as you don't show it to me."
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:18 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:19 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:28 (twenty years ago)
Are there any jokes that feature characters with names? And I'm not talking about "Why John Wayne is like toilet paper" either.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:30 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:35 (twenty years ago)
― Heave Ho, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)
that leelee movie was the pits. worst title in 50 years.
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)
That would kinda limit the US mersh potential, no?The trailer made me laugh at least twice.
Not that, at his age, AB is likely to approach the level of his masterpiece Lost in America.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)
― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)
i agree! it's hard to say why i find him so funny... but it's more in his personality (his albert brooksness) than his jokes. he's like gabe kaplan that way.
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)
"Maddeningly solipsistic" is the essence of the AB persona, but that doesn't work if the film is.
I caught one of the SNLs around 4am a couple months ago, where he performs heart surgery on an old man after taking a crash course; just before he cuts in, the patient moans "I pray it doesn't hurt." Hysterical.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)
mother: i love you, dear
albert: i know..you think you do.
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― jbr, Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)
yeah, i felt this from the preview too. it's designed to be self-critical, but what comes across even stronger is a narcissism and a none-too-strong interest in the islamic world (heh, it's not even the islamic world, it's INDIA--which is like hanging out in japan to see how the chinese are coming along).
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)
i really wish they gave it a different title.
as it is, it sounds like a bad salon essay. or a new york times magazine cover story.
but... i still don't get this movie. i guess the joke is supposed to be that he does a really bad job of looking for comedy in the muslim world. or something.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)
heh, it's not even the islamic world, it's INDIA
Like what slocki said:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/08/features/brooks.php
"There's that scene where they call me to Washington and they explain that Pakistan is all Muslim and I say, 'But I thought India was primarily Hindu.' Somebody at the table says, 'There's almost 150 million Muslims in India alone,' and Fred Thompson says, 'Is that enough for you?' They went crazy! I thought, I passed the test, it's O.K.! The sheik is laughing; he's talking to the guy next to him in Arabic and pointing at the screen. And no one walked out!" Some of the Arab press, Brooks said, questioned his decision to set the film in India and Pakistan rather than an Arab country. "I said, 'Well, if you can get me permission to shoot in Saudi Arabia, let me know,"' he said, "because it was not happening when I was making calls. That was shut down within five minutes, with 'What, are you insane?' They're not going to let a Jewish man, much less a filmmaker, in there. That's just not going to happen. But I wanted the conflict between the two countries. I knew in writing this that I wanted to take two existing powers that are always suspicious of each other, and that was the one place you could do that. The idea was always that I go to do a peace mission, and I almost start World War III."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)
i knew this, but somehow i heard "india" and didn't think "muslims." i guess this is the sort of behavior the movie wants to correct/point out.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)
130 million Muslims vs. 900 million Hindus
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)
the people who are reacting viscerally to the concept of this movie seem to have a very different idea of what the concept is from me.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)
s1ocki, tell us: is this where the movie actually goes? or is the trailer misleading?
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)