Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (let’s call it Borat) took the English-speaking comedy world by storm in 2006, wheezing throngs of critics and comedians declaring it nothing short of a revolution: at a rough-cut screening for Hollywood’s comedy intelligentsia, Simpsons writer George Meyer is said to have confided in Judd Apatow that it was like hearing the Beatles for the first time. Borat––Sacha Baron Cohen’s impossibly outrageous orientalist stereotype hailing from a fantastical Kazakhstan where women sleep in cages, antisemitic effigies are ritualistically beaten for sport, and a horse is treated like a man––mingled in unscripted interactions with a diverse cross-section of unsuspecting Americans ranging from politicians to rodeo-goers to aging TV starlets. The result was comic anarchy that nailed the peak reality-tv, early-YouTube, cynical late-Bush cultural zeitgeist. It was part Johnny Knoxville, part Andy Kaufman, all...
- 10/21/2020
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