Bruno -- Based on a Real Gay Austrian?!

The Austrian media is going crazy over the new movie "Bruno" -- claiming Sacha Baron Cohen based his fake flamboyant Austrian TV host ... on a real life flamboyant Austrian TV host.

Bruno

The dude caught in the middle is Alfons Haider -- he's proud to be gay, he's into fashion, and (just like Bruno) he's also been known to compare himself to Zac Efron.

Want more evidence? -- Alfons is the highest-paid presenter on Austrian state broadcaster ORF. In the film, Bruno works for a channel called OJRF. Coincidence?

The controversy has been raging in Austria for a while, but Haider just told The Telegraph newspaper, "I never understood the comparison to myself at all. The only comparisons I can think of is that I'm Austrian, I'm gay, and I work for television, but the rest is completely fiction."

Anyone really buyin' that?



Tags: alfonse haider, AlfonseHaider, austria, bruno, sacha baron cohen, SachaBaronCohen

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31. This movie looks like it's going to suck, gay humor ? bring back Borat !!!!

Posted at 1:52PM on Jun 18th 2009 by Ranxerox

32. ENOUGH OF THIS GUY? ALREADY!

Posted at 2:09PM on Jun 18th 2009 by bobette

33. Same stupid inane schtick with a different stereotype. Not funny then, not funny now. Go Away already!

Posted at 3:39PM on Jun 18th 2009 by What the . . .

34. I don't think Sacha as an original bone in his body. I suspect all his alterego's are ripoffs from someone else.

Posted at 3:55PM on Jun 18th 2009 by hans

35. You know I am the most pure and righteous man on the entire TZM planet!

I'm not in a state of sin! Think of me as 'God's Quarterback'. NO! Wait! I take that back! Football is a homoe ritual! Let me tell

you why! Because! Any time you've got a man who is putting his hands on the backside of another man like that, and that-

what that is, is a simulation of the homoe consummation. And the ball- the football represents a birth. Its a mockery of birth!!!.

It represents the 'homoe-self' which is then given to the- to the quarterback, who is usually the best-looking one on the team.

He then takes that- He takes that 'homoerectus-self' and looks out among the field of other men, who will 'receive,' and 'take'

his seed. And he sends it to him! And with the intention of taking it into 'sacred ground'- the 'sacred space' of- of- of America

and family and values!

Posted at 3:41PM on Jun 18th 2009 by #1 SEED

36. WHO CARES?????????????????????

Posted at 4:24PM on Jun 18th 2009 by lynnee

37. SBC Kind of looks like Ben Stiller in Zoolander giving the look of "Blue Steel".

Posted at 7:47PM on Jun 18th 2009 by A Nony Mouse

38. As a hair stylist, I have worked with, and know men who could BE BRUNO.............this guy is fooling himself if he thinks he is so unique! LOL Just further's the role!

Posted at 12:05AM on Jun 19th 2009 by redneckgurl1971

39. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CARES!

Posted at 3:29PM on Jun 19th 2009 by Tom

40. Cohen is such an obnoxious yawn. And he would need years of plastic surgery to look as good as Alfons Haider. BTW, since when is it funny to mock people just because they are gay? Geez, what a jerk.

Posted at 4:01PM on Jun 21st 2009 by gifthorse

41. wow people wayyyy to serious over this crap. its just a movie. who cares, let him dance around all crazy and act like a fool. he's getting paid more than you.

Posted at 11:00AM on Jun 27th 2009 by ahhrealmockery

42. I love him and think he is hillarious. You Tightwads need to lighten up really......what difference does it make who the character is modeled after the movie looks hillarious.....

Posted at 3:24PM on Jul 2nd 2009 by Jess

43. If he really enlisted in the Army for bruno then they should make him finish his term.

Posted at 2:41AM on Jul 7th 2009 by Razor

44. hes not making fun of gays and hes not making fun of austrians, hes just turning everyone stereotypes on themselves. hes trying to show people how stupid there being for believing that gays are all flamboiant and outrageous and austrainss are all sickos. he knows there not and hes trying to make a point, that when you really sit back and look at what your saying its pretty rediculous just like his character, stupid peoples stereostypical views, and its makes anyone in the film who believes the way he acts, look stupider for it.

Posted at 11:24PM on Jul 9th 2009 by Tessykinz

45. Cohen is rehashing the same old tired plot over and over again.

If this movie bombs at the box office, maybe he will have to find a new avenue and actually write an original script.

Posted at 10:36PM on Jul 9th 2009 by Strange Strange

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