November 15, 2005
Kazakhstan Throws A Fit Over Borat
Who knew that one of the benefits of globalization would be unintentional comedy? Here's a dispatch from Reuters:
Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.
Sacha 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, on British and U.S. channels.
You know that Cohen's agent, whoever that might be, is thanking God for this incredible opportunity.
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Perhaps they just want more pictures of his wife.
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at November 16, 2005 12:17 PM
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