Cohen World Tour spoof on Air Farce

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Godwyn
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Cohen World Tour spoof on Air Farce

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Hi all,

Some of you may be interested to see that Canada's satirical commedy program "Air Farce" has done a short spoof on LC's tour. It's a bit cynical, perhaps (playing on the theme, rightly or wrongly, that he's touring because he's broke), but armed with a sense of humour, one might appreciate it.

The link to the caption (not sure how long this will remain in place) is:

http://www.cbc.ca/video/popup.html?/mrl ... ldtour.wmv

MG
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Thanks for posting this! I liked the older Air Farce LC skit (also on YouTube) better but this one made me laugh too, though I wasn't sure why at times. The whole "sluts of the world" thing doesn't really make sense. But one can see that the guy is a good deadpan comedian, which I always appreciate (he's not as good as LC himself!) and the Hallelujah parody lyrics were pretty funny. Somehow the other one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-EoWfI7HiI
seems less mean spirited because it just makes fun of his so called "dreary" music and doesn't get into his personal life/finances/reason for touring.
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Just wonderful!

So spare a penny (or 350 Swiss francs/or 220 EUROS) for poor Lenny!

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Thanks Godwyn. Brilliant.
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If the guy sitting next to you is singing along "All your Moulah" that'll be me. Thanks G. :lol:
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