Ineffably Awesome

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 25 Comments

Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing.

AP – Smoking Gun

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  • http://grohac.wordpress.com/ grohac

    I feel bad for laughing at this, but I can’t help it. I can’t wait to see the video from this.

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    Sure. NO ONE ever promises something such as a bake off and ends with hot country girls smooching.

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    “One time at band camp…”

    The unexpected is often times hilarious.

  • http://wowpanda.blogspot.com wowpanda

    LOL, I remember those kind of situations when I was tinny. Someone promised something new and exciting but turned to some totally unexpected. It either leads to huge disappointments or laughs.

  • Fraeg

    that got one big ass grin out of me.

  • http://ve3d.ign.com/ Apache

    lol

  • http://emergentfuture.com Arrakiv

    “It either leads to huge disappointments or laughs.”

    … Laughs, definitely laughs this time around. :-)

  • Dren

    “…the two men “went right up to the line” of the city’s morality laws,”

    It always amazes me that violence is always accepted, but sex is just “over the line.”

    “You two boys can get down to yer skivvies and wraaastle and punch each other bloody, but make damned sure that you don’t do anything that looks like you like each other! We’ll be over here drinking and betting on which one of you boys is left standing…”

  • Big Gulp

    I love that the venue was booked in advance by “Peto Philer”.

  • Flis

    I believe it was a stunt for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Brüno movie. The video will most likely not be out until the movie comes out.

  • Ebenezer

    While I’m no fan of these public brawl events, I can see the outrage at the actual goings on.

    People DO have issues with this stuff. Tricking them into watching homosexual behavior is no different than tricking them into watching beastiality, pedophillia or many other things that are taboo to large portions of the world.

  • Fraeg

    “People DO have issues with this stuff. Tricking them into watching homosexual behavior is no different than tricking them into watching beastiality, pedophillia or many other things that are taboo to large portions of the world.”

    equating homosexuality with bestiality and/or pedophilia = A monstrous fail on your part.

    It was a prank that obviously pissed off a lot of good christian folk who attended, and I can understand why they would be pissed. And hell I will even go so far as to say I can on some level sympathize with them. However, pedophilia/bestiality don’t even reside in the same universe as the prank that was played on these people.

  • http://www.wolfsheadonline.com/ Wolfshead

    Yet another attempt to make fun of white southerners — the last group of people in the world that it’s still “ok” to mock and deride. I wonder if Cohen has the stones to try this with a group of black southerners with or better yet minority members of his own country. Nah, that wouldn’t happen as Jesse Jackson and the rest of the race hustlers would be down there before you can say “I’d cut his n*ts off..”

  • Ebenezer

    “equating homosexuality with bestiality and/or pedophilia = A monstrous fail on your part.”

    In many peoples eyes it IS the same. All 3 behaviors are legal and/or socially accepted in some parts of the world, illegal and taboo in others. My own parents were married at the ages of 19 and 14, and had a 7lb baby 5 months later. They just celebrated their 50th anniversary. Today a 19yr old getting a 13yr old pregnant would result in community outrage (and probably jail time), not a happy marriage.

    People have the right to make their own moral choices. If Disney loaded a cartoon full of something as mild as blatant polygamy and didn’t tell the public, there would be a shitstorm after release weekend.

    Resorting to lying to break taboos, even for entertainment, is morally reprehensible. All they had to do would be to put it in the fine print and I wouldn’t have a problem with the whole episode. If billybob failed to read past DOLLAR BEER to the mansex part, thats his own fault.

  • Walter Yarbrough

    The fail bus continues.

    Yes, Ebenezer, in many people’s eyes, these are all the same category. These people are morans. Let’s draw some more equivalents from, oh, say the last 50 years or so. Mixed Race marriage. Not beating your wife enough. A woman’s right to say ‘No’

    Again, things that are illegal in parts of the world, and not taboo in other parts. If you want to get purely technical, many of the laws on these have been flipped in the US in the last 50 years.

    Here in the 21st century, in the first world, equating homosexuality to pedophilia = fail.

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    Haha, I can’t believe some dudes just tried to play the pity card for being a white southerner. Hahaha, “we got it so tough some times!”. Jesus christ are you serious?

    Hey I’ve got an idea, lets take something funny and blow it way out of proportion, sound fun? HELLS YEAH!!

  • BlueSuedeBandit

    Ha! I live in Little Rock, but I didn’t see the ads for that (they didn’t make it onto NPR, natch.) I can understand the attendees being upset. I’d be upset if I showed up to a show promising “cheap beer and hot chicks” and it turned into a Christian Rock concert.

    ‘course, I wouldn’t throw chairs. I’d leave.

  • JJC

    How is tricking people out of money, even small amounts, for the purpose of mocking them funny? I guess I just never found Sasha Cohen funny. So I guess I should ask how much money does one need to charge to take it from funny to fraud?

    As a side note, the name used to register the site promoting the event was Peto Philer. Fail indeed.

  • http://www.intrigue.co.uk Sylvia

    My favourite line:

    “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”

  • GenVec

    This is the definition of exploitative and unfunny.

    If you want to be progressive about gay rights, luring a bunch of poor rural inhabitants into witnessing homosexual acts under false pretenses isn’t the way to go about it.

    Cohen is reinventing a brand of upper-class snobbery that stopped being socially acceptable about sixty years ago. I’d rather watch Rush Limbaugh perform in blackface than sit through a Bruno movie.

  • Please

    JJC, they weren’t tricked out of their money; there was wrestling and one dollar beer.

    Wolfshead, it’s ok to mock everyone. White southerners are just easy targets.

    GenVec, As far as progressiveness is concerned; a person is either so progressive that they can’t laugh at anyone or so progressive that they can laugh at everyone. I fall into the latter category. Also, I’d laugh at Rush Limbaugh performing a black-face minstrel routine.

  • Serpilian

    And the fail bus misspelled “Moron” too I see. =P

  • JJC

    Two men hugging and kissing doesn’t a Cage Match make. To say that they weren’t duped out of their entry money is dishonest to say the least. Hell, the “joke” is all about the false advertising and people not getting what they paid for. The problem is that there is no art to this joke. There is nothing on which to hang a creative hat on and even pretend it was anything other than a bald faced lie. It’s really not creative nor does it take any real imagination. Bring in people expecting X and show them Y. Simply put, it’s not comedy. Lieing to someone just to mock them just isn’t funny. Asshatery, perhaps, but certainly not funny.

    So again I ask, how much money can you dupe someone out of before a “joke” turns into fraud?

  • nerd gone bad

    We’re the guys hot? That’s all I care about.

  • http://www.imaekgaemz.com Patrick

    The real sticker here is their production crew trying to incite fights between audience members… who knows what they signed to get in there, but screaming insults into the crowd and raising the price of beer to above the advertised rate in hopes of filming a crowd fight is kinda pathetic.

    Don’t get me wrong, for the most part I think the idea of tricking some fight fans into watching a gay make-out fest is pretty funny… but charging them money for it and the rest of the things they did makes me question how much of the reactions in the Borat movie were instigated past what the people would have done normally.