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in #prank6 years ago (edited)

I thought Baron Cohen was finished pulling the stunt where he pranks people with his invented characters, as people would know who he was. But masquerading as a Finn who is talking like a Swedish children’s program TV host seems to work on former Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio is obviously not the brightest person on earth, but still…

I am not the greatest fan of this kind of cheating other people, but have had fun with some of the characters and the crude humour of Cohen. This time he is targeting people who are in high political positions or trying to be, like Apaio who is running for congress. Apraio has before revealed that he is little more than a simpleton, so not much is gained. But what is left is: who would join a Finnish person doing unboxing who speaks Swedish-English the same way the Muppet Cook does. Maybe it says something about people in power, or maybe it says something about my faulty understanding of how much exposure it takes to be someone these days?

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"I may have to say yes..." just lol! It is beyond my understanding how a political figure (a senator candidate!) can fall in for such things...

I guess we have to realise that Sheriff Joe is not the fastest gun in the West!

This is funny, but for some reason there is something I just don't like about Cohen, it's not tangible just a feeling. But hey, still funny. :)

Cohen has a very crude humour... I have no problem with that and often find it funny. But I guess that this uncanny talent for creating characters that match people's prejudices and then using it to cheat them is not friendly or constructive. When he did it with his British countrymen it was somehow funny enough. The Brits have the same humour and are supposed to take it like good sports, but with the more naive, imaginative and ethnocentric Americans something happened that where not flattering for neither them nor Cohen.

The little sheriff is definitely not a sympathetic person in my eyes, but exploiting his lack of intelligence and education is not really that sympathetic either. Still funny in its own way due to the craziness of it all.

lmao - I seen this a couple of days ago surfing YouTube.
There is a Canadian, Rick Mercer, who used to run a show called "Talking to Americans". He is not as outrageous as Cohen, but still gets the point across.

Hehe - It seems some people from the US is trying to strike back at the evil European Empires :) Watch out, Austria is next.

https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1028702662387163137

I keep replaying the Cohen video, and I can't help wondering: is Sheriff Joe really that stupid, or is it a clever montage where Cohen voiced over the "real" questions he asked him. I have the same suspicion about that Hannity - Assange interview on Fox News.
As for Austria being next: I think we are quite capable of digging our own holes to fall into, lol

That would add cheat to cheat. He has indeed cut in some extra things where Joe the Sheriff not necessarily is there.

The Fox News is just domestic politics, but it is also blatant lie. They don't even try to find all the dirt we Europeans are hiding :)

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