On Tuesday night, reclusive comedian Dave Chappelle delivered a free stand-up performance at the packed Pioneer Square in Portland, Oregon that was advertised solely through Twitter, Facebook, text-message alerts, and old-fashioned word of mouth. Read the rest of this entry »

Babs Walters isn’t the only person who hates Bruno….

Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy, has been banned in the Ukraine. The film about a gay Austrian fashion reporter will not be shown int he conservative former Soviet nation due to its scenes of nudity and homosexual sex, the culture ministry said on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, culture ministry commission concluded Bruno included an “artistically unjustified exhibition of sexual organs and sexual relations, homosexual acts in a blatantly graphic form, obscene language, sadism, anti-social behaviour which could damage the moral upbringing of our citizens.”

In 2006, Ukraine banned Borat, Cohen’s satire aimed at demasking bigotry and anti-Semitism in the United States.

Bruno, which opened in North American theaters Friday, was the No. 1 movie in America last weekend.

Flamboyant Austrian fashion guru Bruno (comedian Sacha Baron Cohen) shared his dreams of fashion fame with Matt Lauer on The TODAY Show Thursday.

The back and forth barbing ended in tears after Matt informed Bruno that the Austrian Minister to Great Britain had called for a boycott of his new movie, Bruno, do to its misrepresentation of the Austrian people.

Emil Brix, who was recently appointed Austria’s top British envoy, has said the star’s gags about his country are “cheap”.

“It’s totally inappropriate. Everybody should speak up against that.”

Bruno sashay chantes its way into theaters everywhere this Friday, July 10.

Joan Rivers will see “Red” when some of the biggest names in comedy come together to roast her later this month….

Kathy Griffin has been tapped as Roast Master for the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers, set to air next month.

“Let’s just say it will be an evening of highs and lows,” Kathy says of the event. “I will be roasting Joan with more gentleness and tenderness than her latest chemical peel and, on the other hand, I will give her a verbal Pap Smear, and God only knows what I’m going to find down there.”

The Rivers Roast, which marks the first pairing of a female Roastee and Roast Master, will be taped in Los Angeles on July 26 and will air August 9 @ 10PM on Comedy Central.

Bruno, the alter ego of British satirist Sacha Baron Cohen, has slammed Madonna in a new interview hitting newsstands in the UK this week. Read the rest of this entry »

Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as our favorite Austrian fashion journalist Brüno, appears naked on the July issue GQ Magazine in an ode to Jennifer Aniston’s nude necktie cover for the men’s mag last December.

Bruno is on-hand to answer all of your style-related questions, as GQ turns their advice column to the fashionisto.

Times are hard, but if you shop around und are prepared to vear some things twice before throwing zem avay, it is still possible to look good on a clothing budget of about $20,000 a veek. Ich mean, obwiously you vill need a bit more zan zat if you are planning on leaving ze house.

Urban legend says she’s been banned from The View, so Kathy Griffin swung by the second most annoying gabfest on daytime television — Tyra!

In case you missed it, here’s video footage of the “D-Listed” star’s appearance on The Tyra Banks Show Thursday, May 14. You must hear her critique of The JoBros’ Grammy performance with music legend Stevie Wonder! Hilarity! (Check Out Video 3 For That..)