I have less sympathy for interviewees from Colbert/TDS because neither of those shows hide who they are when they set the interviews up. (The man-on-the-street release forms are signed after the fact, but they also clearly state that they are from Comedy Central and the name of the show.)
SBC, OTOH, is shady as hell when it comes to his subjects. The Borat production team had an unbelievably intricate system for making sure that people could not track him back to the studio, and for ensuring that they thought it was a real Kazakh documentary. (Which makes me wonder exactly how legal the release forms were, but that's for the Fox lawyers to figure out.)
I have an embarrassment/humiliation squick.
::flounces on the fainting couch in the embarrassment/humiliation squick corner::
No 'nad whacks, ladders to the skull, oblivious interviewee humor for me.
Eyp. Oddly, I can watch Ugly Betty, though it is rough at times. As the character has grown on me, I'm actually less likely to cringe, maybe because she's coming off as less a victim, I don't know. Unless she is dealing with Walter. And then I just want to beat him up.
sarameg is me wrt Ugly Betty. At work and at home it doesn't squick because she is so capable. However, I am getting sick of
her apologizing to Walter everytime Walter is a jerk to her.
Which makes me wonder exactly how legal the release forms were,
Prolly about as legal as the release forms for Girls Gone Wild.
How many of the Borat victims were drunk?
It's intellectual bullying, to me.
That's what it is that bugs. Yep.
I have an embarrassment/humiliation squick.
Me, as well. I saw Meet the Parents with my mom in a very full theater, and I think I was the only one not roaring with laughter at all the humiliation humor. Afterwards, my mom was saying how funny it was, and I told her I was wincing in sympathy for the poor guy throughout.
Walter is
a totally manipulative, passive aggressive little shit. Who whines. I find him completely unredeemable.
Feh.
I've figured out the scarf smells like my grandmother's perfume. Which wouldn't be that unnerving if she hadn't been dead since 1995 and the scarf isn't that old and I really don't run into her perfume that often.
Ugh, I couldn't even make it through Meet the Parents. And I don't watch those segments of The Daily Show either.
I adore The Office, though.
I saw Meet the Parents with my mom in a very full theater, and I think I was the only one not roaring with laughter at all the humiliation humor.
I was so angry at Stiller's fiancee for not seeing how uncomfortable and unhappy he was and not taking steps to help him.
