Borat's Golden Globes Vision

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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.”

Sacha Baron Cohen 2007 Golden Globes

2 thoughts on “Borat's Golden Globes Vision

  1. james huggins

    Since being crude sells big nowadays, this guy will go far.

  2. Frank Zavisca

    Cohen is a master comedian – he even turned recent interviews with journalists into comedy routines – leaving the journalists outraged that they had been “had”.

    No doubt these outraged journalists would have a different result if they had done their homework.

    I was amused by the clueless outrage of the various “groups” mocked in “Borat”.

    In the real world, these same kind of “insults” are thrown at “Rednecks” every day of the week, and we laugh along with them.

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