Borat’s Golden Globes Vision

Once again, Sacha Baron Cohen lampoons all the serious stuff that has been penned about “Borat: Cultural Learning Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Sure, his crudity is a little hard to take, but he’s so brilliantly, disarmingly funny (and gorgeous, if you ask me. How such a dish transforms himself into Borat and Ali G. is, in itself, the stuff of great comedy). Over to Cohen’s Golden Globes acceptance speech, transcribed on “Blogging about the Reel World“:

“I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. And I just want to say that this movie was a life-changing experience. I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America. But I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America. A side of America that rarely sees the light of day.

I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

[Davitian shrugs and raises a wine glass]

Ken, when I was in that scene and I stared down and saw your two wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, ‘I better win a bloody award for this.’
And then when my 300-pound co-star decided to sit on my face and squeeze the oxygen from my lungs, I was faced with a choice: Death or to breathe in the air that had been trapped in a small pocket between his buttocks for 30 years.

Kenneth, if it was not for that rancid bubble, I would not be here today.
[Music starts-up]

Thank you to Larry Charles, thank you to Jay Roach, thank you to Isla Fisher, my fiancée. Thank you to Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer; thank you to Ari Emanuel; Matt Labov; Erran Baron Cohen, my brother who did the music; and to Jason Alper. And thank you to every American who has not sued me so far. Thank you.”