Jake Hurwitz
Before I was kindly turned away from Bar 13, College Humor’s party celebrating the release of Bruno was actually a lot of fun. Last night, they did a screening of the film on Union Square. It was perfect; there was free popcorn, soda and posters. T-shirts were even thrown into the audience for the lucky people who got seats early enough to not be stuck in the first few rows. These seats are always bad, but with a film like Bruno you want to have a little extra space.
The crowd of almost entirely 20 year-olds gave the film a very good response, but the conversation that occurred as people bottlenecked out of the theater was comparing it to Borat. In that head-to-head, Bruno usually placed in a very commendable second. I caught up with a few folks after the screening to hear their thoughts.
30 Rock’s Lonny Ross, a big fan of all things Sacha Baron Cohen, was there and not at all let down by the film, “I enjoy actors and comedians who are fearless and I admire that and I hope to have that in me someday,” said Ross. After seeing Bruno he says he plans to go back and re-watch all of his original Da Ali G Show DVDs.
Julia Nathan, a College Humor intern, hated Borat, but enjoyed Cohen’s latest film. “[Borat] became this cultural phenomenon that I just could not stand because everyone was just doing it for so long and everyone built it up for me and when I went to see it I was like, oh, OK,” explained Nathan who saw the early screening to beat the hype. She gave Bruno a B minus, with the caveat that “not a lot of movies get above a B plus ”. For Nathan, Borat got an “Oh my God…D plus, D minus, I hated Borat so much.”
Jake Hurwitz, of the popular web series Jake and Amir, never saw Borat and was excited to see a new style of comedy. “These types of movies always make me feel really uncomfortable because they’re like real scenarios, but it was kind of cool, it was really funny at parts and at times it made me feel very, very sad for humanity which is kind of interesting to get out a comedy movie” he said. Well put, sir.
The crowd of almost entirely 20 year-olds gave the film a very good response, but the conversation that occurred as people bottlenecked out of the theater was comparing it to Borat. In that head-to-head, Bruno usually placed in a very commendable second. I caught up with a few folks after the screening to hear their thoughts.
30 Rock’s Lonny Ross, a big fan of all things Sacha Baron Cohen, was there and not at all let down by the film, “I enjoy actors and comedians who are fearless and I admire that and I hope to have that in me someday,” said Ross. After seeing Bruno he says he plans to go back and re-watch all of his original Da Ali G Show DVDs.
Julia Nathan, a College Humor intern, hated Borat, but enjoyed Cohen’s latest film. “[Borat] became this cultural phenomenon that I just could not stand because everyone was just doing it for so long and everyone built it up for me and when I went to see it I was like, oh, OK,” explained Nathan who saw the early screening to beat the hype. She gave Bruno a B minus, with the caveat that “not a lot of movies get above a B plus ”. For Nathan, Borat got an “Oh my God…D plus, D minus, I hated Borat so much.”
Jake Hurwitz, of the popular web series Jake and Amir, never saw Borat and was excited to see a new style of comedy. “These types of movies always make me feel really uncomfortable because they’re like real scenarios, but it was kind of cool, it was really funny at parts and at times it made me feel very, very sad for humanity which is kind of interesting to get out a comedy movie” he said. Well put, sir.
