Posted on 12/13/2005 1:16:09 PM PST by dead
ALMATY (Reuters) - The authorities in Kazakhstan, angered by a British comedian's satirical portrayal of a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh television reporter, have pulled the plug on his alter ego's Web site.
Sacha Baron Cohen plays Borat in his "Da Ali G Show" and last month he used the character's Web site www.borat.kz to respond sarcastically to legal threats from the Central Asian state's Foreign Ministry.
A government-appointed organization regulating Web sites that end in the .kz domain name for Kazakhstan confirmed on Tuesday it had suspended Cohen's site.
"We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name," Nurlan Isin, President of the Association of Kazakh IT Companies, told Reuters. "He can go and do whatever he wants at other domains."
Isin said the borat.kz Web site had broken new rules on all .kz sites maintaining two computer servers in Kazakhstan and had registered false names for its administrators.
Cohen, as Borat, hosted the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon last month and described shooting dogs for fun and said his wife could not leave Kazakhstan as she was a woman.
Afterwards, Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said it could not rule out that he was under "political orders" to denigrate Kazakhstan's name and threatened to sue him.
Cohen, who is Jewish, responded to the legal threats on the www.borat.kz site in character, saying: "I have no connection to Mr Cohen and fully support my government's position to sue this Jew."
In typical vein, he went on: "Please, captain of industry, I invite you to come to Kazakhstan, where we have incredible natural resources, hard working labor and some of the cleanest prostitutes in all of Central Asia."
Borat is one of several outrageous characters devised by Cohen in his television shows. He shot to fame as Ali G, who mocks British street gang culture, and also plays Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion show presenter.
Sounds like the human version of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
Brilliant!
"As everyone know, today is the 14th year anniversary of the Tishniek massacre. So please, now, I ask you to stand and give them respect..."
"I have no connection to Mr Cohen and fully support my government's position to sue this Jew."
I have to say that generally, this guy ain't my cup of tea. But him doing the wine tasting at U of Mississippi (?) was one hilarious piece of television.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
I love BORAT!
Jagshemash, I like you! Do you like me?
Also, Borat has a movie coming out soon....
Me neither, but I caught Cohen one day trying to operate a treadmill as Borat. It was hilarious.
This actor plays several different different characters on his show.
I quickly bore of the rapper character, Ali G.
But some of the Borat skits are absolutely hilarious.
From the MTV Europe awards following Madonna's performance
"That singer before me. Who was it? It was very courageous of MTV to start the show with a genuine transvestite, he was very convincing. It was only his hands and his testi satchels that gave it away."
Borat Ping
Another quote from the MTV awards:
"There is one singer called Shakira... sorry I laugh because in Kazakhstan this word means vagina. For example, 'Can I touch your shakira?' or 'I have seen your wife's shakira, it hangs like the mouth of a tired dog.
I got this email:
"This is the Kazakh Worm virus. We do not have programmers who can create real worms so please send this Virus to everyone in your Contacts list and delete a couple of your critical system files."
LOOKS like him, too!
His high-point was, as Ali G, the time he interviewed Andy Rooney. During the interview, Rooney becomes his obnoxious self and starts to diss Ali G, at which point Ali G accuses Rooney of being a "racialist".
Of course, this accusation could not stand as Rooney can't possibly be racist...he's been looking after his little brown brother for decades, ya know.
anyway, if you have not seen this, find it, it reduces the ever superior Andy Rooney to a blithering idiot.
In my country we have problem...
In interview with the BBC
"My retard brother Vilo is not able to come as he is retarded and his cage would not fit on the plane."
"Unfortunately my wife was unable to leave Kazakhstan as she is a woman... this is a good news, she is a boring. High Five!!!"
"We celebrate with a men's only party in my hotel room where we will play ping pong, wrestle totally nude and shoot dogs from the balcony."
To finish the show
"To the world, I love you! Apart from Uzbekistan. As$%*les."
Thanks for that clip! Hysterical. Rooney is such an ass.
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