FilmDrunk was the first to report (as far as I know) that a handful of news reports about a “German” film crew causing trouble in Kansas sounded unmistakably Brüno (Sacha Baron Cohen’s third alter ego after Ali G and Borat).

Now the above video from the Wichita airport incident has hit the web.  Many sources are also reporting that the official title of the movie is Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt, but I’m not sure where they’re getting their information.  The IMDB page still just says Brüno, and the long title sounds straightforward, rather than satirical – like someone explaining Brüno, not Brüno himself.  The writer of this title would’ve called the Borat movie Borat: A British Jew Tours America Pretending to be an Anti-Semitic Kazakh with a Fat Guy and a Bear.

In related news, Mike Walker of the National Enquirer, during his weekly segment on Howard Stern on Friday, told a story about Ben Affleck calling his friend Sarah Silverman following an interview with a “very famous openly gay fashion journalist”, that he called “the weirdest sit-down he had ever had.”  He said that the interviewer’s first question had been “How do you like nig**rs?”  Of course, Silverman’s immediate reaction was, “Uh, was the guy’s name Brüno?” at which point Affleck realized it had been a gag.

But keep in mind that this was a Mike Walker story.  Anyone who’s ever heard his segment on Stern knows he reports, almost exclusively, fishy-sounding celebrity gossip that’s never reported anywhere else.  Also, you figure that if Brüno wanted an honest answer to his question, he would’ve asked Dog the Bounty Hunter.   

[via /Film and Cinematical]