"I was surprised, because I always had faith in the audience that they would realise that this was a fictitious country and the mere purpose of it was to allow people to bring out their own prejudices. And the reason we chose Kazakhstan was because it was a country that no one had heard anything about, so we could essentially play on stereotypes they might have about this ex-Soviet backwater. The joke is not on Kazakhstan. I think the joke is on people who can believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can exist - who believe that there's a country where homosexuals wear blue hats and the women live in cages and they drink fermented horse urine and the age of consent has been raised to nine years old."Is that his way of apologizing? Regardless, he delights in acting like a foolish s.o.b., then declaring those around him to be apologists and closet anti-semites because they don't punch him in the face (in a public bar in Tuscon, Arizona). Therefore, he concludes woefully, the people are either anti-semites themselves or "indifferent to anti-semitism." Just utter tripe.