Ali G pisses off Kazakhstan

teedubya · 12:07 PM

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.

Garcia Bronco · 11-14-2005, 12:05 PM

teedubya · 11-14-2005, 12:07 PM

heh, without Borat, most people would have still never heard of Kazakhstan

Eleazar · 11-14-2005, 12:09 PM

Is that show still on?

WilliamTheIrish · 11-14-2005, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Cochise

Is that show still on?

In at least one house...

vailpass · 11-14-2005, 12:14 PM

Did you ever see the episode where hwe went to a rodeo and sat next to an older couple and showed them pictures of his 'wife'?
The first couple were normal pictures; the next showed an over-weight woman buck naked giving a beaver shot.
The old man almost choked, the woman couldn't believe it.
God that guy is funny.

Extra Point · 11-14-2005, 12:15 PM

Another jew making money off Muslims.

Pitt Gorilla · 11-14-2005, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by vailpass

Did you ever see the episode where hwe went to a rodeo and sat next to an older couple and showed them pictures of his 'wife'?
The first couple were normal pictures; the next showed an over-weight woman buck naked giving a beaver shot.
The old man almost choked, the woman couldn't believe it.
God that guy is funny.

Great episode.

NewChief · 11-14-2005, 12:19 PM

The one time I've seen this character he was posing as a Kazakh folk singer at some country western bar in Wyoming or somewhere. He was singing all these upbeat, silly songs that had really anti-semitic lyrics like "Throw the jews on the fire." All the audience was hooting and hollering and clapping along. It was pretty funny.

vailpass · 11-14-2005, 01:12 PM

Ali Chi3fs was it you that posted the text of the Harvard commencement speech Cohen delivered last year?
Pure gold.

Demonpenz · 11-14-2005, 01:16 PM

why does he still get into some of these shows lol.

Garcia Bronco · 11-14-2005, 01:18 PM

"I need woman that can pull plow."

chagrin · 11-14-2005, 01:31 PM

Where?

Pants · 11-14-2005, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by vailpass

Ali Chi3fs was it you that posted the text of the Harvard commencement speech Cohen delivered last year?
Pure gold.

That was me. You can also see that speech on film on the Bonus part of Season 2 DVD's.

Ali G is one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. I laugh every time I watch it, every episode is funny as hell.

And Newchief, in that episode he was playing his normal role as a host to some Khazak news show and he was singing "Throw the jew down the well"... good shit.

Pants · 11-14-2005, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

"I need woman that can pull plow."

- You see in the United States women don't have any plow experience, zero.

- Yes, but not very much, maybe one or two years...

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