Hey Borat....
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They love him in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
"I'd kill this impostor on the spot," said Eltai Muptekeyev, who makes his living in Almaty by posing for photos with a blindfolded falcon clinging to a thick leather glove on his hand.
"If it happened in a country where rules are more strict than ours, there would have been a government decree to destroy Borat," said Zharmakhan Tuyakbai, leader of the opposition National Social-Democratic Party. "Even if we set aside his (offensive) personality, he should certainly bear responsibility for his offensive words."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_en_ot/kazakhstan_borat
"I'd kill this impostor on the spot," said Eltai Muptekeyev, who makes his living in Almaty by posing for photos with a blindfolded falcon clinging to a thick leather glove on his hand.
"If it happened in a country where rules are more strict than ours, there would have been a government decree to destroy Borat," said Zharmakhan Tuyakbai, leader of the opposition National Social-Democratic Party. "Even if we set aside his (offensive) personality, he should certainly bear responsibility for his offensive words."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_en_ot/kazakhstan_borat
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Who's Borat? I'm serious. Who the **** is this guy?
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I haven't seen much of the Borat character.
I didn't think the Ali G. character was funny.
I didn't think the Ali G. character was funny.
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ifilus said:
I can't begin to tell you how many times this has been said about me.
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One of my biggest buzzkills in memory. About two years ago, this 24-26 year old woman I know had no idea who Yakov Smirnov was. It came up in conversation. I tried to explain, but how do you explain something like him to someone with only vague memories of the cold war and the 80s. It depressed the hell out of me.
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Ali G interviewing NBA players and the NBA on TNT cast.
I thought it was pretty funny.
I thought it was pretty funny.
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In 1980s, Ragu dated many of the young women. Now references to 1980s comedy date Ragu with many of the young women. What a country!
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pallister said:
It's like Vegas, if it was run by Ned Flanders.
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High-Five!
Not to generalize or make a sweeping statement, but if you don't find Borat funny, you are a complete douche...
Not to generalize or make a sweeping statement, but if you don't find Borat funny, you are a complete douche...
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Mizzougrad96 said:High-Five!
Not to generalize or make a sweeping statement, but if you don't find Borat funny, you are a complete douche...
Borat is hysterical, but what makes him funny is the character making unsuspecting Americans who have no idea it is a spoof look like douchebags. It works on the Ali G Show for that reason. But now he runs the risk of two things: 1) overexposure, and 2) turning into skit comedy. He's been all over the place promoting the movie, and it has all been skit/schtick-based stuff. i.e. -- John Stewart interviewing Borat in character. That isn't nearly as funny as Borat going door-to-door with some candidate for Congress in Mississippi and making everyone around him look foolish.
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The "Throw the Jew down the Well" segment from Da Ali G Show is one of the funniest things I have ever seen...
This line from Time this week:
"Any normal person over 35 is going to find Borat horrifying."
Might explain some of the reactions here.
Mizzou is right - him being interviewed by Letterman or Jonathan Stewart isn't the same. But if someone finds that unfunny, makes up their mind and then can't be swayed, I can see how they wouldn't find Borat funny.
Otherwise, yeah, if someone doesn't think it's funny, you're a humorless douche.
The whole point is that people will patronize anybody they feel uncomfortable around. They just want to get out of the conversation, so they'll agree with somebody when he says, for example, that he wants to kill Jews. And also, they'll believe anything about a country other than the United States. Cohen will continue to thrive because he'll just think of new characters. Right now it's the hip-hop guy, the furiner and the gay guy. Next it'll probably be a handicapped person or something like that, and everyone will be once again wrongly offended.
"Any normal person over 35 is going to find Borat horrifying."
Might explain some of the reactions here.
Mizzou is right - him being interviewed by Letterman or Jonathan Stewart isn't the same. But if someone finds that unfunny, makes up their mind and then can't be swayed, I can see how they wouldn't find Borat funny.
Otherwise, yeah, if someone doesn't think it's funny, you're a humorless douche.
The whole point is that people will patronize anybody they feel uncomfortable around. They just want to get out of the conversation, so they'll agree with somebody when he says, for example, that he wants to kill Jews. And also, they'll believe anything about a country other than the United States. Cohen will continue to thrive because he'll just think of new characters. Right now it's the hip-hop guy, the furiner and the gay guy. Next it'll probably be a handicapped person or something like that, and everyone will be once again wrongly offended.
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Pringle said:
Obviously, I'm not normal.
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Mizzougrad96 said:High-Five!
Not to generalize or make a sweeping statement, but if you don't find Borat funny, you are a complete douche...
Guess this poster needs to start posting old news with Deep_Butt****...I just don't get the whole Borat phenomenon.
http://www.al.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/1161681870150440.xml?birminghamnews?nmet&coll=2
The ever-proper Birmingham grandmother has unknowingly become the target of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous humor in his upcoming movie satire "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
Streit's faux pas? Being a gracious Southern hostess.
"We were (Baron Cohen's) innocent victims, and his brand of humor depends on innocent victims," Streit said Monday.
Streit, whose company, Etiquette Training Services, has done cultural diversity training for, among others, Mercedes-Benz and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says someone from the movie contacted her last fall and asked if she would teach Baron Cohen, who claimed to be a diplomat from the Republic of Kazakhstan, about Southern values for a documentary he was filming.
"I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to display some of our positive strengths," Streit said. "I'm proud to be an American, so I wanted to show this man our gracious Southern hospitality."
She did some checking around, and everything appeared to be on the up-and-up.
So Streit arranged for her and some other unsuspecting guests - including broadcasting executive Ben McKinnon, Republican fund-raiser Sarah Moseley and Mountain Brook Presbyterian Church pastor Cary Speaker - to meet Baron Cohen for dinner at Magnolia Springs Manor in Helena.
"I have an extremely strong contract with them that even states that it will be of the utmost dignity and it is for the purposes of international relations, and that no one at the dinner table will be embarrassed," Streit said.
But the evening soon went downhill, with Baron Cohen, Streit said, telling crude jokes and trying, unsuccessfully, to bait his hosts into making bigoted comments.
"Excuse me for saying this, but it was the dinner party from hell," Streit said. "And I don't usually say that."
And the longer it went on, the worse it got.
"We were simply tricked by a professional con man," McKinnon said. "It started out to be a pretty good meal until his so-called charm disappeared."
At its lowest point, Baron Cohen brought a small plastic bag filled with excrement to the table.
"I was mortified for my guests," Streit said. "I took him (Baron Cohen) upstairs and taught him American toilet training - I guess would be the only way you could say that.
"The people who have seen the movie are talking about the funniest part is this little redhead up in the bathroom giving him American toilet training. And I'm like, `Oh, my.' All I can do is shake my head."
Near the end of the evening, a woman that Streit thought was a prostitute - "The best way I can say it is `a lady of the evening,'" Streit said - showed up at the door.
"She was outrageously dressed, very flimsy, and comes in and is supposed to be the entertainment for the gentlemen," Streit said. "Well, of course, this quickly put an end to the evening. All of us had these horrified, surprised looks on our faces."
The ever-proper Birmingham grandmother has unknowingly become the target of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous humor in his upcoming movie satire "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
Streit's faux pas? Being a gracious Southern hostess.
"We were (Baron Cohen's) innocent victims, and his brand of humor depends on innocent victims," Streit said Monday.
Streit, whose company, Etiquette Training Services, has done cultural diversity training for, among others, Mercedes-Benz and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says someone from the movie contacted her last fall and asked if she would teach Baron Cohen, who claimed to be a diplomat from the Republic of Kazakhstan, about Southern values for a documentary he was filming.
"I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to display some of our positive strengths," Streit said. "I'm proud to be an American, so I wanted to show this man our gracious Southern hospitality."
She did some checking around, and everything appeared to be on the up-and-up.
So Streit arranged for her and some other unsuspecting guests - including broadcasting executive Ben McKinnon, Republican fund-raiser Sarah Moseley and Mountain Brook Presbyterian Church pastor Cary Speaker - to meet Baron Cohen for dinner at Magnolia Springs Manor in Helena.
"I have an extremely strong contract with them that even states that it will be of the utmost dignity and it is for the purposes of international relations, and that no one at the dinner table will be embarrassed," Streit said.
But the evening soon went downhill, with Baron Cohen, Streit said, telling crude jokes and trying, unsuccessfully, to bait his hosts into making bigoted comments.
"Excuse me for saying this, but it was the dinner party from hell," Streit said. "And I don't usually say that."
And the longer it went on, the worse it got.
"We were simply tricked by a professional con man," McKinnon said. "It started out to be a pretty good meal until his so-called charm disappeared."
At its lowest point, Baron Cohen brought a small plastic bag filled with excrement to the table.
"I was mortified for my guests," Streit said. "I took him (Baron Cohen) upstairs and taught him American toilet training - I guess would be the only way you could say that.
"The people who have seen the movie are talking about the funniest part is this little redhead up in the bathroom giving him American toilet training. And I'm like, `Oh, my.' All I can do is shake my head."
Near the end of the evening, a woman that Streit thought was a prostitute - "The best way I can say it is `a lady of the evening,'" Streit said - showed up at the door.
"She was outrageously dressed, very flimsy, and comes in and is supposed to be the entertainment for the gentlemen," Streit said. "Well, of course, this quickly put an end to the evening. All of us had these horrified, surprised looks on our faces."
I don't think either the Ali G or Borat character is all that funny. Mildly amusing, but not hilarious.
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Borat on Letterman:
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dog428 said:
I tried to watch that a second time, in case I missed the funny part the first time through.
Admittedly, I've never seen Ali G. I don't know Borat from a hole in the ground. The bits and pieces I've seen have not even made me smile. Nor did that clip.
I guess I'm old and normal for my age.
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