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...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 Brüno 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 gets too famous to sucker people into being interviewed, he molds himself into another one. He could be any outsider...
...Kazakh. What he represents is a country of Boratastan, a country of one." ROMAN VASILENKO, Kazakhstan press secretary, on Borat Sagdiyev, the bumptious, fictional Kazakh TV reporter created by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Borat, whose antics have drawn the ire of Kazakh authorities, was turned away from the White House during President Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit to Washington...
...ring to whip up the crowd with stalwart jingoism. May America win the war on terror, he proclaims in his thick Eastern European accent, and hurrahs fill the hall. May your soldiers come home victorious, he adds, to more applause. With an even greater burst of exhilaration, Borat Sagdiyev shouts, "May George Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!" The audience cheers again...
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