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...Glod incident undermines all of that. Cohen and his crew seem to have behaved with all of the arrogant ignorance of the people they are meant to satirize. They arrived with a fully fledged Hollywood entourage, made little effort to explain their terms, took what they wanted, and went on their merry...
SACHA BARON COHEN, British comedian and star of the wildly popular film Borat, in which Baron Cohen's character maintains, among other absurdities, that Kazakh women are kept in cages...
Joel Stein's story on comedian Sasha Baron Cohen's movie Borat stated that "any normal person over 35 is going to find [Baron Cohen's character] Borat horrifying" [Nov. 6]. I disagree; I'm 37, and although I thought the film was as vulgar and far removed from political correctness as you can get, I was not horrified. It is a brilliant satirical look at global prejudice and without a doubt the funniest movie in years. You don't have to be under or over a certain age to know a sharp work of satire or pure comic genius...
...Baron Cohen criticizes all the things Borat pretends to admire and uses Borat's faked attitudes and stories to reveal the hidden resentments within the people he encounters. As a Jew, Baron Cohen carries Borat's anti-Semitism to the extreme, thus making a laughingstock of it while also revealing the bigotry of the unsuspecting people he is fooling. The same goes for Borat's imaginary Kazakhstan: he is making fun not of Kazakhs but of ignorant Westerners who overrate their own cultures...
...watch R. Kelly earnestly tell the camera, “If you’re looking for some good sex, holla at a playa.” Hilarious! Not great; good. You’d be crazy to expect anything else. —Jake G. Cohen...