[Mark Allinson]

The comedian, Sacha Baron Cohen, alias Ali G, alias Borat, is costing Kazakhstan big money

Borat’s racist and sexist diatribes as he travels across America in a quest to marry Pamela Anderson, the Baywatch star, have left officials in Kazakhstan fretting that the comedian is turning their country into a global laughing stock.

The anti-Semitic reporter presents his homeland as a place where fermented horse urine is the national drink, women must ride on the outside of buses and homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats.

[Quincy Lehr]

I cannot express in mere words how much I am looking forward to this movie (the Borat movie, that is). In the U.S. Ali G. show, Borat's first appearance had him going to a dating service. From his first line--"In U.S. and A., if you want to marry a girl, you cannot simply go to her father's house and offer to swap her for fifteen gallons of pesticide"--I was hooked.

Quincy

[Henrietta kelly]

we should send Sir Les Patterson to sort him out for them.

[Mark Allinson]

I just love this guy.

Here is a quote from The Ultimate Borat + Ali G website

Secret Service agents turned away Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat when he tried to invite "Premier George Walter Bush" to a screening of "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

In response to images printed in US magazines displaying pictures of the US and Kazakh presidents shaking hands Borat said "If there is one more item of Uzbek propaganda claiming that we do not drink fermented horse urine, give death penalty for baking bagels, or export over 300 tonnes of human pubis per year, then we will be left with no alternative but to commence bombardment of their cities with our catapults."

[This message has been edited by Mark Allinson (edited October 13, 2006).]

[Robert J. Clawson]

Originally posted by Mark Allinson:
I just love this guy.

So do I, Mark. He has the physical skills of Buster Keaton and the zany delivery of Groucho Marx. No, he's unique. Can't wait to see the movie.

Thanks for the website.

Bob

[Dan Halberstein]

Eeeeen, Kazakhstan, we havvvve also. Poetry. But weeeee must write, wriiite it, how you say, wriiite it, eeeeen the chuchmaychuchzancha... how you sayyyyy, menstrual blood.

Sorry, it's contagious. Anyway, I hate loving the Borat character. Just wish he'd made up a non-existent former Soviet republic... but would it really be the same?

Dan

[Quincy Lehr]

The reasons for choosing Kazakhstan were pretty straightforward. The character was apparently based on a Russian Sacha Baron Cohen had met and thought hilarious, but he figured that Kazakh-speakers were much thinner on the ground than Russian-speakers. Hence Kazakhstan.

And his performance at the Oklahoma City Council was brilliant. First, the ten-minute silence for a fake massacre, then he tells one of the councilwomen, "I want to make romance inside of you." Brilliant.

[Mark Allinson]

Here is a brief and amusing description of his three main characters


Ali G is the bad boy rapper straight outta Staines in the UK, near Windsor, where the queen lives. He may live with his Nana in the suburbs and has spent more time in Drive thru's than in Drive by's, but he intends to change the world. Already the UK's number one comedy phenomenon Ali G brings his unique style of interviewing to HBO. Talking to the great and the good about the issues that really matter Ali is the only interviewer prepared to ask the really difficult questions like "what was it like to walk on the sun?" to Buzz Aldrin or asking the ex head of the FBI to cast his mind back to the grassy knoll and ask "who really shot JR?".

Borat Sagdiyev is Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man. A leading journalist from the State run TV network, Borat has been sent to the United States to report on all aspects of American life. From baseball to Broadway, Borat asks the questions no westerner would dream of in his tireless quest for knowledge, telling dating agencies he will 'crush' women who are unfaithful, touching the penises of Vietnam veterans in Atlanta, urinating on trees with new age gurus in Sedona. Borat on his first ever trip abroad presents a picture of America that only Charles Manson would recognize.

Bruno, camp, vain and self obsessed, is the voice of Austrian youth TV. At home in the world of air kisses and air heads with his 'faux hawk' and g string, Bruno trumps the most vacuous, sycophantic and intellectually redundant fashionistas with his inanity and superciliousness. Patrolling the catwalks and after show parties of New York Fashion week and taking the fashion pulse of America, Bruno seeks out his prey like as if it was a bargain at a Barney's sale.

[Clay Stockton]

Okay, Borat has come and (mostly) gone.

What did everybody think?

Here is what George Saunders thought:
http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/cont...61204sh_shouts

--CS

[Quincy Lehr]

Saunders can lick my taint--Borat was brilliant!