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Kazakh govt threatens to take comedian to court
Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:41 PM GMT15
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ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show", has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West.

Baron Cohen appears to have drawn official Kazakh ire after he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.

"We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way," Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing.

"We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind." He declined to elaborate.

Cohen's earlier jokes about the Central Asian state include claims that the people would shoot a dog and then have a party, and that local wine was made from fermented horse urine.

"We view Mr. Cohen's behaviour at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners which is completely incompatible with ethics and civilised behaviour," Ashykbayev said.

Lol fucking brilliant.

The joke is that people know so little about the country that they can be easily convinced it's completely backwards. It's not a statement that the country is actually that way.

Also, right to parody/satire.

That guy is an absolute genius. Fuck Kazakhstan, anyways.

The world's ninth largest country, yet I barely knew it existed. If I were in PR, I'd rename the country. Kazakhstan isn't a good name.

He loves the U S and A.

Nightshade wrote:That guy is an absolute genius. Fuck Kazakhstan, anyways.

When you say Fuck Kazakhstan, I know exactly what you mean. That country has been a pain in the ass ever since I first slightly knew it existed.

the spoof interviews he used to do as ali g on the 11 o'clock show were priceless. especially the one where he and rhodes boyson (former school inspector) talked at cross-purposes about 'caning'

mjrpes wrote:

Nightshade wrote:That guy is an absolute genius. Fuck Kazakhstan, anyways.

When you say Fuck Kazakhstan, I know exactly what you mean. That country has been a pain in the ass ever since I first slightly knew it existed.

Amen, mrherpes, amen.

Kazakhstan sucks because i had to know where it was for a physical geography test ;(

america sucks for the same reason, i guess

seremtan wrote:the spoof interviews he used to do as ali g on the 11 o'clock show were priceless. especially the one where he and rhodes boyson (former school inspector) talked at cross-purposes about 'caning'

w3rd, his 11 o clock show stuff was classic

got the vid here now an dmight just have to break it out

In home country Kazhakstan, I was professional gypsy catcher. And also sometimes, I would be hired to catch man with how you say, chocolate face?

riddla wrote:

I want to do a romance inside of you."

"In Kazhakstan we have many hobbies: disco dancing, archery, rape and table tennis..."

"If you come back with me to my country,(....) I will give you television and remote control..."

"Englishman must have a hobby. Some like to collect the stamp or make jam. But the most fun is to kill a a little animal with a shotgun or rip him up with a wild dog."

"There is land of opportunities in US of A. For man, construction work, taxi driving and accountancy. For woman, as a prostitute."

"We say in Kazakhstan, "Woman who goes with book is like horse without...Saddle.""

"We say in Kazakhstan, "You find me woman with brain, I find you a horse with...Wings.""

"In America, women can vote but horse cannot! It is the other way around in my country."

"I am very strong physique and I can hold a very large woman down for 3 hours...I am strong, I can throw rock at a gypsy from 15 metres. 10 metre if I am chained up."

losCHUNK wrote:

seremtan wrote:the spoof interviews he used to do as ali g on the 11 o'clock show were priceless. especially the one where he and rhodes boyson (former school inspector) talked at cross-purposes about 'caning'

w3rd, his 11 o clock show stuff was classic

got the vid here now an dmight just have to break it out

on reflection, he was the best thing about that show. iain lee's career nosedived into freeview digital channel fodder

seremtan wrote:

losCHUNK wrote:

seremtan wrote:the spoof interviews he used to do as ali g on the 11 o'clock show were priceless. especially the one where he and rhodes boyson (former school inspector) talked at cross-purposes about 'caning'

w3rd, his 11 o clock show stuff was classic

got the vid here now an dmight just have to break it out

on reflection, he was the best thing about that show. iain lee's career nosedived into freeview digital channel fodder

11oclock spawned Ricky Gervais as well (into TV).

The show was comparable to Big Breakfast back when it was originally Johnny and Denise. You had anchors who played off each other so well the show became greater than the sum of its parts. Then just like BB, it fell apart when one of the anchors stopped doing it.