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Sacha Baron Cohen's Gay Fight Night Hoax

Richard — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:31:00 EDT

Prankster, actor, and all-around brave guy Sacha Baron Cohen has once again angered gullible Southerners. This time it was while filming his new movie Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt (title is tentative) which features Cohen's gay fashionista character prancing about the United States. The Borat star held several evenings of "Blue Collar Brawlin'" in two "cities" in Arkansas, advertising with posters like the one above. There was cage wrasslin' and $1 beer, yes, but the night ended with two male combatants kissing each other for all to see. Audience members became furious when confronted with this hideous sight, throwing beer and chairs onto the stage. Click after the jump to see the Craigslist ad that Cohen and his cohorts posted for the events.

Will This Be Funny?

Richard — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:12:00 EDT

Borat's Sacha Baron Cohen will play Sherlock Holmes to Will Ferrell's Watson in a new movie based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mystery series.

Sacha Baron Cohen Plays First Gay Man To Visit Kansas

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:16:01 EDT

Sacha "Borat" Baron "Ali G" Cohen is working on his upcoming flick about his character "Bruno," the supergay Austrian fashion reporter. Since everyone on both coasts (except for Ben Affleck) is obviously too familiar with his work to be punked, Bruno has traveled to the heart of flyover land, Wichita, Kansas. Where he was captured on film doing supergay stuff! His act reportedly "almost looked like pornography," at least to Kansas sensibilities. After the jump, video [via Towleroad] of Bruno and his funky pants dance, which brings joy to the dreary confines of the Wichita terminal.

BORAT, ALI G BOTH DEAD

Choire — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:35:39 EST

Borat Sagdiyev, the mild-mannered Kazakhstani journalist known for his investigations of America and a documentary film of the same name, as well as for the great offense that he gave the Jews, has died. Similarly, so has talk show host Ali G, an English journalist best known for his willingness to ask questions that probably should have been asked but everyone felt too stupid to do so.

Sacha Baron Cohen: Killing off Borat [Telegraph]

Sacha Baron Cohen and fiancée Isla Fisher ...

Doree Shafrir — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:20:46 EDT

Sacha Baron Cohen and fiancée Isla Fisher to spawn mini-Borats. [People]

Random City Resident Speaks For Many in Borat Beatdown

abalk2 — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:25:01 EST

The UK Sun brings word of a recent altercation:

BORAT star Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego. He approached the man and said: "I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it."But the bystander didn't see the joke. He took one look at Cohen and punched him in the face.The funnyman — known for his Borat catchphrase "Jagshemash!" — yelled for help but was slugged again and again. He was rescued by actor pal Hugh Laurie who had been on his way to a New York bar with Cohen.

Certain editors here at Gawker have been resistant to seeing the film because of its massive hype and ludicrous insistence that all press be done in character, but we would have paid full price plus the Fandango service fee to have watched this. Anonymous New Yorker, you're our new hero.

Borat spanked by angry Yank [Sun]

Earlier: Stop Quoting Borat, Or We Will Never Make Sexytime To You Again

Stop Quoting Borat, Or We Will Never Make Sexytime To You Again

Doree Shafrir — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:45:06 EST

Like many of you, we saw Borat on Friday evening. We enjoyed it. We even tolerated the man behind us who insisted on imitating every Borat-ism as it appeared on-screen, if only because we, too, were sharing in hilarious communion. And after the movie, we, ourselves, admittedly participated in a few "high five!"s. We might have even said "niiiiice" one or two times.

But as the weekend wore on, our patience began to wear thin. We made the mistake of venturing out to a bar on the Lower East Side Saturday night, where we couldn't go two feet without a leering "I liiiiike" or a bad-accented "sexytime." And it probably goes without saying that we have no interest in showing our vagine to anyone. We are not number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan!

More Borat ruminations, and a very important reader poll, after the jump.

It all reminded us of a few other terrible months in our lives. All those "clever" guys who wanted to welcome us to their underground lairs, even as they themselves were surrounded by frickin' idiots or men named Sh! Or people telling us they don't roll on Shabbos, or they have numchucks in their locker, or they want to talk to us about our TPS reports or where the fuck is their red stapler, or that that's the reason they now have a lazy eye. And no, we do not want to end the night with White Castle in our stomachs, okay?

We understand the urge to quote from funny movies. Really, we do. Funny movies are funny! And Borat is very funny. But Borat is Borat, and you, my friend, are not Borat. So please, shut the fuck up, and leave the Borat-ing to Sacha Baron Cohen. In the meantime, we need to know which Borat-ism has already made you wish you had never heard of a wizard sleeve.

Ali G

Gawker — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:00:31 EST

Ali G, the whiteboy wannabe gangsta who has taken over British television with his spoof interviews of public figures, lands this Friday on HBO with a US show. Ali G is actually Sacha Baron Cohen, a nice Jewish boy from North London, whom Gawker's publisher knew when he did a bad stand-up act at the House on the Hill in Hampstead.

Ali G mocks everyone: ludicrously macho black guys, the white kids who emulate them, and the old farts who haven't got a clue what's going on. The Ali G show works on all levels. I wasn't sure it would work in the US, but HBO is the perfect platform, race is an even more potent subject for comedy, the buzz is good, and, most important of all, American politicians are even more out of touch with youth and urban culture than their British counterparts. Ali G meets Brent Scowcroft: I can't wait.
HBO: Ali G [HBO]