"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," Yerzhan Ashykbayev, a spokesman for the Kazakh government, said yesterday. "We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind." The Mr. Cohen he refers to is comedian Sasha Baron Cohen, aka Staines, UK-based white rapper Ali G, aka Austrian homosexual club kid Bruno, aka Kazakhstani state-television reporter Borat. It is this last character, who depicts Kazakhstan as a backwater of sibling rape, anti-Semitism, and political killings, that has the Kazakhstan government upset.
While Ali G has landed interviews with international figures such as Boutros-Boutros Ghali, Borat has caused an international incident in enraging Kazakhstan. So which one of Sasha Baron Cohen's alter-egos rules the world? Ali G, who once asked Buzz Aldrin what it was like to walk on the sun? Borat, who displayed peculiar pictures of himself and his sister to a pair of Old South wine connoisseurs? Or, the dark horse, Bruno, who coaxed a group of college muscleheads on spring break to take their shirts off and get rowdy for the cameras only to reveal that he worked for Austrian Gay TV? Cast your votes.
Ali G interviewed Pat Buchanan:
http://homepage.mac.com/njenson/movies/aligbuchanan.html
I like the Ali G character the best. It shows how the gangsta rappers are really just big clowns with bad taste.
Booyakasha!
Ali G. No, Borat.
Okay, it's either Ali G interviewing the DEA agent or Borat going door-to-door with the candidate.
Right, then, it's Ali G. The Boutros-Boutros Ghali interview was the tie-breaker.
I liked when Ali G went to the UN and actually got them all to observe five minutes of silence over an atrocity that never actually happened.
Ali G., of course...But Borat gets my second vote.
Here in Germany, there is something known as a Döner (Doener) ... a lot like the Greek Gyro but made by the Turks.
Anyway, I've noticed - in many Döner Shops - there is something on the menu called "Borat" ... never had the courage to order it, but I wonder ... is there a connection?
ALI G rules.His interview with David Beckham and his wife plus his opening line at the MTV(Europe) music awards in Germany come to mind.Both of which are unsuitable to repeat on this site.
Nah, the Andy Rooney bit is the best. Showed what a pretentious a-hole the man really is.
