Borat Would Have Preferred a High Five

Sacha Baron Cohen might be brilliant (and/or crazy), rich, and lawsuit-worthy, but it doesn't seem like he knows how to draw the line between life and art. Two weeks ago, after he appeared on Saturday Night Live, Cohen - dressed as Borat - and SNL host Hugh Laurie went to a bar. That reputable paper, The Sun, reports that Cohen approached a man and said, "I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it." To which the man responded by punching him repeatedly.

Cohen escaped with help from Laurie, but it definitely reassured us about something we thought we were missing from the movie - New York-style sucker punches. (But he is lucky he didn't run into one of the many other lunatics in the city with packing heat.) We supposed we'll have to wait for the DVD with deleted scenes. But who doesn't like the fact that the movie studio has been asking Cohen not to go around as Borat just for this reason?

And picking up on our post about two of the RV frat boys suing the filmmakers behind Borat, have you seen this MetaFilter thread from a friend of one of the frat boys?

Photograph of Borat in New York taken last year by carpeicthus on Flickr

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events, News on November 13, 2006 5:25 PM

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jmchez

You call that a beating? The unfunny A-hole didn't land in the hospital like he deserved.

Miquel

"Borat only appeals to mindless idiots and drunk frat boys."

For the low-brow, in-your-face comedy, yes.

There are more sophisticated people, however, who appreciate the subtlety of skill it takes to convince others to be their unadulterated, racist, sexist and homophobic selves by simply pointing a camera at them and telling them they'll be famous.

Brilliant by way of others' stupidity. yay!

JustNorth

No doubt someone punched this guy out ... He is as authentic as a foreigner and as annoying as foreigners are ... I know, I've been there, on both sides of the punches

Kojak

Enough with Borat. Old News

The Bruno Movie comes out 2008

That should be even better.

Questions & Answers

Borat only appeals to mindless idiots and drunk frat boys.

chris

Borat is a lot funnier on film than in the press.

All this talk about him is making his sthick less and less funny.

I think the majority of his appeal was in his mockery of popular American culture, when you pile him into it, he just implodes.

Hal2814

Harold Ramis filled in for Ebert this past week and called the humor in (the film) Borat "Swiftian". I almost choked on my Cheerios!

Untitled

He needs to go away now, news-wise.

nick

wow man. people are now doing bad borat impersonations online???

John

Borat is nice!. Problem with movie is; Americans who state their opinions there think movie is for show only in Kazakstan, so they say what they REALLY think about US of A, woman, Bush, Iraq war, gays and make sexy with the dogs.

Then when Americans find out movie is for show in USA, they sue because claim what they say in movie is "taken out of the context'.

That why we have saying in Kazakstan, "Bri shochorni vasya probveetye" which means, "Americans are full of the crapshit".

Is nice, yes?.

zincink

I want to see Borat go to the Bronx..but to make it more exciting he must enter a fast food place.

Frank Jones

Is'nt saying "Can I touch it?" when refering to another man's genitals a crime yet?? Comeone ADL, get NABLA in gear and lock down all this freedom of expression!