The tourist authority of Kazakhstan could not buy the amount of amazing marketing milage Borat has given them....and by wanting to sue Sacha Baron Cohen they are stuffing up a massive opportunity to get people to visit the country.
If you don't yet know why an entire country is angry with a made up character - check out these highlights from Borat's input at the MTV Europe Music Awards:
Following Madonna's performance
"That singer before me. Who was it? It was very courageous of MTV to start the show with a genuine transvestite, he was very convincing. It was only his hands and his testi satchels that gave it away."
Introducing Green Day
(Borat is dressed in a very revealing wrestling lycra costume), "Hello it is me, Freddy Mercury. I joking, he die of AIDS. It me Borat, I not a la la loo lee. The only sex disease I ever have is gonoreah. 15 times! The ladies like Borat! Now please welcome Coldplay."
Chillout people. Embrace your country's apparent weirdness and get Borat to be your official mascot. We like....you like?
Spot on!!!
Posted by: Rob | November 16, 2005 at 01:36 PM
Borat is a my hero. i am liking to become his wife. we have a lemur and we will calling him "King Julian"
Posted by: katiep | November 17, 2005 at 10:31 AM
What is so funny about Borat? I think you have to be incredibly stupid to laugh at what this strange dude says. May be you should travel more around the world then you won't be so ethnocentric and perceive other countries so strange? We Americans have to stop being so arrogant in our ignorance of the world.
Posted by: CoolDog | November 23, 2005 at 07:14 AM