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Fans of the HBO show—where the Borat segments made their debut—will note a fair number of rehashed themes from the television sketches. Borat again learns formal etiquette and dines with a group of elite Southerners, and again spices up the dinner conversation with explicit talk of bowel movements...
...meant to spice up the narrative, and keep casual viewers happy; in any case, this “gonzo comedy” suits Fox (the film’s distributors) far more than Cohen’s old “Da Ali G Show” home HBO. Cohen’s real strength, here as always, is in using his deadpan portrayal of a totally oblivious foreigner to expose prejudice and hypocrisy in the supposedly civilized world...
...crew were just about that fearless during the making of the film. Baron Cohen was more so. For the two-month shoot, he was in character from early in the morning until night. The crew shot so much footage that Charles is trying to sell the unused parts to HBO as a series. Even when the cops came--which the director says happened at least 50 times--Baron Cohen never dropped character. It's an impressive, perhaps insane, performance: Johnny Knoxville with a sense of humor, Andy Kaufman with a desire to please, Peter Sellers set loose on the public...
...inferior, it's plausible that their citizens would wash their faces in the toilet. He's been exploiting this by videotaping the reaction of unsuspecting people to his characters' horrifying behavior since 1998, when he started on England's short-lived The 11 o'Clock Show, and later on HBO's Da Ali G Show. His characters--aspiring rapper Ali G, gay Austrian fashionista Brno and Borat Sagdiyev, the U.S.-loving Kazakh--get away with astonishing rudeness because people are too weirded out by youth culture, flaming gay guys and foreigners to question them. When one of his guises...
...into HDTV this may not sound like a big deal. In fact, aside from HBO and the networks, most of what I record airs only in standard definition: Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Food Network and a great chunk of the Discovery Channel?s best shows. But there?s a profound psychological difference between having access to most of my shows and all of my shows. Best of all, the Slingbox connects directly to an HD cable box as easily as it connects to any other video source. It doesn?t require anything as elusive as a CableCard, an over-promised...