Kazakhstan threatens "Borat" with court

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show", has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West.

Baron Cohen appears to have drawn official Kazakh ire after he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.

"We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way," Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051114/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_kazakhstan_borat;_ylt=AsCmWMkYesXrDzumU5NzC9cuQE4F;_ylu=X3oDMTA4cmUwbnA1BHNlYwMxNzAy

And my favorite Borat moment - singalonga "Throw the Jew Down the Well":

http://www.campchaos.com/show.php?iID=866

edit - I forgot to mention that there's going to be a 'Borat' movie. Normally I'd think this was a bad idea, but it's got some talent behind it. Larry Charles (Seinfeld) is directing and Peter Baynham (The Day Today, Brass Eye, I'm Alan Partridge) is working on the script (along with Cohen).

[Tyrone Slothrop]

1. "My sister..."

"She is prostitute."

[Quagmire05]

2. lol

:rofl:

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3. America national sport is called baseballs.

It very similar to our sport, shurik, where we take dogs, shoot them in a field, and then have a party.

[tjdee]

4. Aww, Borat.

I was expecting this, though, when he named a real country as his place of origin.

Don't think anyone would want to claim him, LOL.

But carrying out someone's political orders, well, that's somethin'.