Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
– 20th Century Fox
Check out the teaser here
“Kill the Jew!”… I mean “Jagshemash!” As soon as the music started for this trailer I thought the Russians were invading my head and that it was all over. Thank God I was only drunk.
For those who’ve been surfing the internet or watching TV with the sound off and their eyes closed and a pencil up where the sun don’t shine, Borat is one of many characters created by multi-talented comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, an anti-Semitic and misogynistic journalist on a quest to better his homeland of Kazakhstan by traveling to “the US and A to learn a lessons for Kazakhstan.” If this is half as good as his купальный костюм is form-fitting, we’re in for a doozy of a ride.
A face only a prostitute sister could love.
Every second I see Borat I’m reminded of Yakov Korolenko (“Go, Yankees! Lou Piniella!”) played by comedian-artist Yakov Smirnoff. Remember that guy? I’ll bet that washed-up hack is kicking himself in the тестикулы right now for not capitalizing on his caricatured portrayal of Russian culture during his short-lived tenure on the greatest sitcom of all-time (no, not 704 Hauser… Night Court). Who knew it was just gay erotica undertones and a thicker blacker moustache away. Oh, the royalties. What’s that? He really is Russian? Sure, right, and Balki Bartokomous is really not gay.
Did anyone else know that Kazakhstan was not fictional? Apparently the president’s daughter has a sense of humor and is actually defending Cohen’s satirical character. Anyways, the whole thing sounds made up to me, like ‘Mypos’, or ‘Thundera’, or ‘Asia’. Crazy kooks.
OK, I had 2 1/2 mediocre jokes for this screen cap and couldn’t decide which one to use, so I wrote in both. Up to you folks to decide which one is mildly more or less amusing than the other. Here goes:
a) Re-enacting that scene from ‘Beat It’, minus the head-shaking dude.
b) The new cast of Рента and/or тавот (that’s Russian for ‘Rent’ and ‘Grease’ respectively. At least I think that’s what they mean. And that’s assuming that they speak Russian in Kazakhstan)
Sacha Baron Cohen has impeccable comedic timing. Although a lot of the deadpan humor we see here in the trailer has been done countless times before, it would fall flat if Cohen’s delivery wasn’t spot-on. I must say I almost busted my testis satchel when I saw the cow in his ‘fancy place’ trailer home. Whatever the hell he says to it has become my new catchphrase.
I just wanna hump that ‘stash, don’t you?
I don’t understand why Kazakhstanis (sp? I’m gonna perpetuate the French Québecer stereotype in me and be too much of a lazy bum to look it up. Forgive my arrogance, but I’m still better than you) are all up in arms about this character. I laughed my froggy ass off. I don’t get my flannel shirt all up in a bunch when other cultures make fun of Québecers ‘cuz we’re fat white trash hicks (pretty much the Canadian version of south-American trailer trash, minus the guns), who love Pepsi but that’s probably cuz I’m not an overweight separatist retard welfare recipient who’s so proud of his own heritage without exactly knowing why and won’t even bother learning a second language ‘cuz he thinks he doesn’t need it to get by. The rest of the world should learn French, goddamit! And not just French, but undiscernibly incoherent bastardized Canadian French to boot! Wow, I almost know what it’s like to feel like most Americans. See, I have a sense of humor about my own people, too!
Final word on this trailer? “Is Nice!!!”
Sent on a mission from Svarog or deported?
Rating: 
