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 WATCH THIS FIRST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk Who Is America? is a comedy on Showtime by Sacha Baron Cohen, aka creator of the original "My wife!" line Scott Aukerman references a lot (and I guess he's done other things?). This is his first show in almost 15 years, since the massive success of Da Ali G Show in 2000-04, and it follows the same format as that programme, where Baron Cohen disguises himself as ridiculous, outlandish figures and poses with real figures (this time, almost entirely from the world of American politics), and tries, usually extremely successfully, to get them to endorse, agree with, or otherwise tolerate his absurd satirical nonsense. Characters shown so far are Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., Ph.D., a far-right lunatic with a website called TRUTHBRARY, Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello, a liberal activist and straight, white cis man (for which he apologises), Rick Sherman, an ex-convict who makes art out of poo poo and semen, and of course Erran Morad, an Israeli anti-terrorism expert who manages to convince several prominent Republican figures to endorse a fictional program arming children as young as two or three. It's batshit. I thought the first half of the first episode was very hit and miss - and the whole 'gonna mock both sides!' thing really doesn't work so well in the current climate - but the second half (ie the video above) is utterly incredible and one of the best things he's ever done. I absolutely cannot wait to see more - it's certainly a lot better than fuckin' Grimsby. Who Is America? airs on Sundays at 9pm ET/PT.
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Jul 16, 2018 21:21
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This episode overall was much better than the first even if nothing quite reached the heights of the arming toddlers stuff. That town hall meeting at the end was loving hilarious
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Jul 23, 2018 14:13
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Martian Manfucker posted:Here is a link to an article about the town hall meeting written back in January. The people interviewed for the article figured out that something was up at the time, but that didn't stop the others. I can’t see this because they block GDPR countries from viewing the site (lol), could anyone paste it?
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Jul 23, 2018 18:26
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Quick reminder to those who may not have seen it to check out Nathan For You. It’s based in absurdism/capitalism rather than politics, but it’s also the most genius show of this kind I’ve ever seen, and it’s no surprise SBC brought Fielder on to work on this show.
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Jul 24, 2018 11:08
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Yeah, this is Showtime. Ali G was on HBO.
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Jul 24, 2018 20:01
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Not a gigantic fan of 3/4 segments but that whole catching Mexicans bit was holy poo poo incredible
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Jul 30, 2018 08:15
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Zesty posted:I have to think the cops were actors there. I thought probably the show called the cops
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Jul 31, 2018 00:36
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Definitely a middling episode, but still real fun.
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Aug 6, 2018 10:12
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The sex ed guy absolutely twigged that something was up.
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Aug 6, 2018 20:45
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The political sections in this one weren’t so hot but the birth and food critic sections ruled
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Aug 20, 2018 10:36
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nah she isn’t
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Aug 22, 2018 19:14
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I’m ok with it only being seven eps. It definitely already peaked.
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