Jews embrace Borat's role as crusader against racism

[oberliner]

TORONTO -- Borat Sagdiyev, the fictional character at the centre of the new comedy Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, is ridiculously anti-Semitic.

The movie, opening today, features a "running of the Jew" segment back in Borat's home village in Kazakhstan that would be astonishingly offensive if it were not so ludicrously funny. On the Comedy Network's Da Ali G Show, Borat once took to the stage at a country and western bar in the southern United States and performed a song called Throw the Jew Down the Well as the rednecks sang along and cheered.

Yet far from being outraged, some of the most creative and powerful Jews in Hollywood are big fans of the film -- including Larry David, Garry Shandling and Larry Charles, the legendary Seinfeld director who also directed the Borat movie.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Entertainment/2006/11/03/2219766-sun.html

[Mojambo]

1. I can't wait to see it. n/t

[Karenca]

5. I'm actually leaving the house now--on my way to

see Borat!


I know it's going to be hysterical.

[rucky]

2. Sacha Baron Cohen

pretty sure he's a Jew & approves, too.

[Akoto]

3. Wasn't he on the Daily Show last night?

A few times, it looked like he was going to make Jon spit out his water in laughter. :)

[Kagemusha]

4. Correct on both counts.

Esp. with the "Keep your Jew satan claws away from me" act.

[Lisa]

10. and implying that Jon must have had cosmetic surgery to avoid detection

Also the exaggerated look of disgust on "Borat's" face, as he actually did spit out the water Jon had offered him earlier!

[mucifer]

6. He's got the ADL worried. They get the joke but they're afraid others

won't.

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Mise_00/4898_00.htm

[Xeric]

9. The ADL needs to STFU

They act like every non-Jew is a closet anti-Semite. As an American Jew they don't speak for me. I'm tired of their hysteria.

[NOLADEM]

7. This guy is not only funny, he carries his balls around in a wheelbarrow

Twice, he amazed me by leaving with his life. He once went to a rodeo and mocked American bloodlust while singing the National Anthem. The funniest and most thought provokingly disturbing was the episode where he went to a country bar, asked to sing, and then got the audience to sing along with a tune he wrote called 'Throw the Jew Down the Well'. It was as shocking as it was humerous.

Can't wait to see the movie.

[izzybeans]

8. Much like David Cross' "Liberal Jew Run media" production company.

Gallows satire so thick the comedy can be horrifying, if only because it uncovers hidden truths. Cohen gets the same characters Cross conjures up in his standup to act out the joke in reality. A pretty crafty trick.

It is a way of ridiculing a bigot in the public square. Now if he could only lure them on stage for an audience to point and laugh at.