ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -- Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.
Sacha 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, on British and U.S. channels.
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.
Kazakhstan is full of shit. The great thing about the borat segment is that it's EXACTLY like the cheap immigrant shows. I'm russian, I see this type of shit on russian tv all the time.
As far as the shit he says it's not that far off either, in accent or content
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.
The Ivy League Nigga wrote:I thought it was a fictional country!
Me too. Regardless, we should bomb that country already.
"Down South on vacation just this year a couple different people asked if I was Arab or Hispanic and I've got pulled away from security lines at airports the last two times I flied." - Icesickle
I know so many guys like Borat whether it be Russians, Persians, etc......the best part is Cohen said he based off a Russian guy he knew.....but apparantly the brilliant minds of Kazakhstan have not ruled out that "Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present and its people in a derogatory way"
drizzle wrote:Kazakhstan is full of shit. The great thing about the borat segment is that it's EXACTLY like the cheap immigrant shows. I'm russian, I see this type of shit on russian tv all the time.
As far as the shit he says it's not that far off either, in accent or content
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