As Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedy draws nearer, it’s practically inevitable its creator will show little restraint in the raunch department (as well as showing way too much in the male nudity department). In honor of such audacity, Joel Massie examines the top ten comedy moments that push the boundaries of good taste while simultaneously invoking disgusted laughs and horrified cringes.
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10. Tropic Thunder: Ben Stiller takes a bite out of the director.
In Ben Stiller’s return to actually being funny, Tropic Thunder showcases plenty of scenes both hilarious and outlandish, but in this story of interchangeable realities and fantasies, Tugg Speedman’s attempt to convince his costars that it’s all fake definitely takes the cake.
9. Team America: World Police: The puppets get it on.
Though South Park continues to push the limits of the word “decency” in all its interpretations, Team America stood out for this daring sequence (of who's unrated cut was even more mind-bogglingly vulgar). While the whole film is rather tasteless in approach, the satire and celebrity-bashing definitely delivers the laughs.
8. Observe and Report: The streaker gets put down.
Jody Hill’s sophomore effort maintains a pitch-black sense of humor throughout, and though early hints foreshadow the obscenities to come, it scarcely prepares the viewer for this climactic barrage of wince-worthy nudity.
7. National Lampoon’s Van Wilder: The rival frat eats the cannoli.
Some people hate this movie and others love it. Either way, it put Ryan Reynolds and even Kal Penn on the map (to make steadily inferior movies, sadly) and contained several truly memorable moments of disgusting hilarity. This one was the most deliciously disturbing.
6. Clerks: Dante and Randal talk about...a lot of things.
Though none of the discussed acts are actually shown, the dialogue is so deliriously raunchy that the imagination can make up for any absent visuals. Necrophilia, video store porn, and the number 37 never sounded so dirty.
5. Porky's: Ms. Balbricker grabs a handful.
You knew something bad was going to happen when Tommy decided to put more than just his eye up to the infamous women’s shower spyhole. The resulting struggle for life between the brazen teen and the angry gym coach, as well as the subsequent retaliatory lineup, offers up a painfully hilarious prelude for the limits later raunchy comedies would surpass.
4. American Pie 2: Jim gets romantic with superglue.
It would be too cliché to choose the infamous pie defiling scene from the original film, and though each successive movie introduced their fair share of cleverly crude gags, this one was executed with painful finesse. Stifler’s encounter with a bad chocolate in American Wedding was an admirable effort, though repulsiveness far outweighed originality.
3. Dumb and Dumber: Harry can't hold it in.
While this Farrelly Brothers’ early triumph couldn’t match their subsequent films in vulgarities, Jeff Daniels’ bathroom mishap remains a classic moment of comedy crudity. Plus, There’s Something About Mary, with its hair gel and zipper scenes, has already received plenty of accolades for its marvelous indecency.
2. Borat: Borat wrestles Azamat – in the nude.
In one of the most excessive scenes of male nudity ever committed to celluloid, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh reporter battles his overweight producer in the buff. With a nearly identical R Rating attached to Bruno, Cohen’s new film will undoubtedly attempt to outdo its predecessor – this could either be really funny or something you’ll be trying for years to scrub from your scarred brain.
1. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: Austin drinks the coffee.
You knew he was going to do it but you still couldn’t believe it when he did. Badly mistaking Fat Bastard’s stool sample for a fresh cup of coffee, Mike Myers’ swinging James Bond spoof cheerily chugs down a mug of the putrid brew. Yeah, baby!
- Joel Massie
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man . i saw the cannoli thing like 8 years ago, and still gross me
