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August 4, 2004

Borat!

Last night at that big blogfucking party at Delancey, Andy and I were trying to explain the genius of Borat. Words don't do him justice. JUST WATCH. (Link via Thighs Wide Shut.)

YOU MUST WATCH THIS ONE TOO (it's the country music bit).

UPDATE: Everything you wanted to know about Borat here.

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The clip came from http://onegoodmove.org/1gm there are links to others as well.

Posted by: Norm at 08/04/04 4:00 PM | Reply
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Ther's more Borat here:
http://www.boratonline.co.uk/

Posted by: Pepsi Max at 08/04/04 4:32 PM | Reply
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my favorite borat quote ever (he said it on conan o'brien, i think):

"kazakstan is great, we have seven swimming pools and two of them are filled all the way to the top!"

i'm paraphrasing. but still. hee.

Posted by: laini at 08/04/04 5:17 PM | Reply
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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE watch the Conan O'Brien clip on the main page here (Scroll down to find link):

http://www.boratonline.co.uk/

Posted by: pepsi max at 08/04/04 5:20 PM | Reply
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Borat on Conan... slow build, but hits a brilliant finish!

Love Sasha B-C... gotta dig the funny, rabidly intelligent dudes out there!

Posted by: astralgirl01 at 08/04/04 11:58 PM | Reply
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he looks like a cross between freddie mercury and seinfeld.

Posted by: nag at 08/05/04 6:47 AM | Reply
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this guy is so cool! sadly you won't come across him very often on german television. so thanks a lot, dear internet!

Posted by: waldar at 08/05/04 8:00 AM | Reply
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My favorite Borat moment is when he's soliciting for votes with the Republican congressman and he can't understand why women in the United States are allowed to vote. The woman has to literally explain to him the 14th Amendment. It's great.

Have you seen Sasha as himself, going in and out of the various accents, explaining the jokes and set ups? It's brilliant. He did this on the Daily Show a few weeks ago, but Comedy Central doesn't seem to have the clip up on their site.

Posted by: karen at 08/05/04 4:35 PM | Reply
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Actually, the greatest Borat moment was the flubbed "improv" in the Season 1 episode "Art." The inept Borat, in the acting studio, is politely told by the unimpressed but sympathetic acting teacher "I thought there were some excellent moments there." Yes, it's funny because Borat seems not to have understood the concept of an improv. But there's another layer on top of that, infinitely more hilarious. The acting teacher looks down on Borat with euphemistically-veiled disparagement of Borat's failure at acting. But Borat is only a character played by Sacha Cohen, who is acting the entire time; it's just that he has set unexpected parameters for the improv. The laugh is actually on the acting coach, who never catches on. (The frosting on the cake is the actress's flipped-out evasion of Borat's attempt at a good-bye kiss.)

Along similar lines, in the same episode: an annoyed Buzz Aldrin explains the meaning of humor to Ali G after Ali G tells a dumb moon joke without understanding the punchline: "Things are funny, or comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." Too much irony to abide...

Posted by: Robert K S at 08/06/04 6:43 AM | Reply
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Thanks Robert -- I never saw those bits. Borat's kisses are hilarious.

Posted by: stereogum at 08/06/04 11:40 AM | Reply
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borats best comment was 'DO YOU AVE ROOM WITH METAL DOOR ANDNO WINDOW,YOU SEE MY BROTHER HE IS A RET@43

Posted by: owen at 09/07/04 1:53 PM | Reply
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Yesss.. it's a verry niice.

My wife, she is very scared of the men with the "chocolate face".... Do they live around here?


Posted by: yeshgamesh at 09/22/04 2:31 PM | Reply
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where is the o'brien and borat interview video ???

Posted by: Matt at 11/29/04 9:50 PM | Reply
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where's the conan interview?

Posted by: conanobrien at 09/13/05 12:35 AM | Reply
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Ali G has fooled many a vip, including Brent Scowcroft and former Surgeon General Koop.
Borat is even funnier though, especially in Charleston, the heart of Dixie (South Carolina)where his crude but believable comments are totally able to fool the Southern upper class gentry!!

Posted by: j. vance at 11/20/05 11:30 PM | Reply
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borat. he no funny, yah? he very no funny. he a little strange, no? torab think so. torab much much better. vatch torab. torab

Posted by: tarob at 10/06/06 7:35 PM | Reply
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