Thought I posted this earlier? Maybe I didn't.


I hear on Australian television that Sacha Baron Cohen is not allowed to give interviews on telly back in the UK to promote his new film.


Anyone know why?

Google has all the answers.

He can, just not 'in character' on the bbc. Advertising and all that. Same as ever, good publicity for the film though

Well thats a boring answer.

To provoke some debate how about we pretend the real answer is "because it offends Muslims".

Why should we have to bow down to what they want, it's not their country if things like that offend them why don't they stay in their own country? We wouldn't go over to Islamistan and demand that they don't wave their flag or celebrate their religion because it offends us? So why do we have to do that for them? I heard that we weren't allowed to fly the Union Flag in the Queens Jubilee because it's racist apparently, we just have to wave red or rainbow coloured flags as they are supposed to be multicultural and non offensive. What's this country coming to??

You missed some...

The jobs, don't forget the jobs they've taken off "us".

And the ones who haven't taken all the jobs have taken all the benefits too, all illegally an' all.

And you can smell their cooking right down the street.

Wow. To think you went to the trouble of typing all that. I believe the term is "shıt stirring". Well done.

Thanks for someone letting me know that it's only on the BBC. Once again the aussie media have blown something out of pro. I guess they mentioned it because he appeared on breakfast telly over here and that would give them some sort of one up manship over the UK. Funny lot sometimes.

RB, I think you'll find it's Sally's version of satire.

It's the same as the normal type, but not as funny.

Oh I see.

Don't be forgetting the carp...Them dastardly Eastern Europeans have eaten all the carp!

That would be a better position

Ditto that.

A few years back was talking to a recently arrived Pole (a plumber!) who'd been pulled by a bailiff for not having a fishing licence. Anyway, when it got to the bit where the penny finally dropped that the licence allows you to fish, but then you have to put them back, well, he just couldn't get his head around that at all.

I mean - why would you? What's the point?

I think it was several months before he grudgingly accepted that it probably wasn't a wind-up, although he still scratches his head. Proof for a Pole that the English really are quite mad.

A fishing pole?

It's not just him who thinks they are barmy, I do too.

Although I enjoy my fishing, I have absolutely no interest in catching fish for "fun" or "sport" or however some want to dress it up. If I can't eat it or use it for bait to catch something that I can eat, then I ain't interested in trying to catch it. My attitude sometimes upsets the catch & release brigade but I much prefer:



It's the only way

Without a doubt. He's about as funny as cramp.

I must disagree. The site of him as Bruno, descending from the air to rub his ball sack in Eminem's face is the stuff TV was invented for. That and Snoop Dog being attacked by Emu on the Word.

He's also the same 'comic' who decided that it would be funny as all hell to 'interview' a Palestinian and then, in the final film, label them a terrorist. Or perhaps that was just to help Mossad?

But he's damn good at self publicity, you have to give him that.


Not so good at doing 'funny', granted, but excellent at advertising himself. Ricky Gervais anyone?

No ta

Didn't they both start out on the same programme? The 11 O'Clock Show, I think.

Not much of a fan of him either. [iThe Office[/i was painfully good, but since then, he's way become staggeringly self-indulgent and self-congratulatory, in my opinion.

Extras was good. The first series, particularly. I loved the Kate Winslet episode. He's definitely gone downhill since then though.

I think that was the point i was making, although in fairness I'd got a bit fuzzy by then, so it may not have come across properly.