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Check out this VIDEO of Ali G interviewing C. Everett Koop. Koop seems to have NO sense of humor.

top Kazakh official has an invitation for the British comedian whose depiction of a homophobic, misogynistic, English-mangling Kazakh journalist has outraged the Central Asian nation: Come visit. Deputy Foreign Minister Rakhat Aliyev said in an interview that he understands why Kazakhs are unhappy about Sacha Baron Cohen's character, Borat. "I'd like to invite Cohen here," he said. "He can discover a lot of things. Women drive cars, wine is made of grapes, and Jews are free to go to synagogues." Though to some Cohen's antics are potentially more insulting to Americans, Kazakhs have long seethed at his popularity and his...

"Borat"Sacha Baron Cohen, creator of satirical Ali G character known to many, comes under ADL scrutiny. ADL fears many may not grasp 'farcical' nature of Cohen's anti-Semitic character 'Borat,' claiming it may serve to reinforce bigoted beliefs of some Popular entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen, more widely known as Ali G., has entertained audiences with his bombastic, push-the-envelope humor. However, his upcoming film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan based on one of his characters, Borat, has the Anti-Defamation League worried. Borat is a parody of an outlandish anti-semite in a series of laughably inappropriate...

by Mark Finkelstein September 30, 2006 - 08:31 If torturing analogies were a war crime, Maureen Dowd might soon find herself in the defendant's dock at the Hague. In her subscription-required New York Times column of this morning, Dowd desperately seeks to associate herself with Sacha Baron Cohen, the brilliant British comic who yesterday took DC by storm. First in his HBO series 'Ali G' and now on the big screen, Cohen has brought to life 'Borat,' his racist, anti-Semitic, misoygynistic, sex-mad alter ego from Kazakhstan. Borat's MO is to lure unsuspecting people into his bigotry, as when in an...

Borat, a fictional Kazakh TV reporter whose boorish antics have got under the skin of the Central Asian state's government, seems destined to remain largely unknown in his "homeland." Kazakhstan's largest chain of cinemas confirmed on Friday it had no plans to screen his forthcoming movie with its deliberately ungainly title "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." "We consider this movie offensive, a complete lie and nonsense," Ruslan Sultanov, distribution manager for Otau Cinema, told Reuters. "It's a shame that some Americans will probably believe what they see there." In the movie, Borat Sagdiyev,...

White House gates shut to 'Kazakh reporter' comic Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:46am ET Borat goes to Washington:PLAY VIDEOBy Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Borat, the fictional TV reporter from Kazakhstan, may have gotten under the skin of Kazakh officials but on Thursday he couldn't get past the gates of the White House. Secret Service agents turned away British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as the boorish, anti-Semitic journalist, when he tried to invite "Premier George Walter Bush" to a screening of his upcoming movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." Also invited...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- There are plenty of odd things about Kazakhstan, but making women ride on the outside of a bus and drinking fermented horse urine are not among them. These are both inventions of Borat Sagdiyev, a racist, sexist, boorish, and, crucially, fictional Kazakh television reporter dreamed up by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a satirical device to skewer his real-life interviewees. The problem for the real Kazakhstan is that Borat's fake Kazakhstan is threatening to become better known in the West. Now the two nations are meeting. Real-life Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev flies to the United States...

"The President of Kazakhstan is so enraged with the racist view of his country portrayed by the comic character Borat in a new film that his government is to pay for educational advertisements ahead of Nursultan Nazarbayev's trip to America this month. In Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator of Ali G, brings to the big screen the character who depicts Kazakhs as anti-Semitic, primitive, dirt-poor Communists. "

US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen, 35, creator of Ali G, has infuriated the Kazakhstan government with his portrayal of Borat, a bumbling Kazakh TV presenter. And now a movie of Borat's adventures in the US has caused a diplomatic incident. The opening scene, which shows Borat lustily kissing his sister goodbye and setting off for America in a car pulled by a horse, had audiences in stitches when it was first shown last week. But the film, which has just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, has prompted...

THERE’S NOTHING I like more than a Jewish joke. It’s the anti-Jewish ones I’m not so keen on. Wandering through the streets of Edinburgh during the world’s largest arts festival, you never know what sight or sound you will be bombarded with next. Half-naked men on 6ft stilts meander by, half-naked girls rush to sell you their show, troops of Japanese acrobats tumble past. But I wasn’t prepared for the verbal assault I got when I wandered into a comedy gig this week. There have always been anti- Semitic jokes. But you know times are changing when you go along...

JAGSHEMASH, America! Sacha Baron Cohen, the Cambridge-educated comedian who gave the world Ali G, the idiotic, tracksuited rapper from the West Staines Massive, is about to test America’s sense of humour to the limit. Baron Cohen has finished shooting his new film, which centres on a crazed journey across America in an ice-cream van by his moustachioed character Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh television reporter with the meaningless catchphrase. While some of the film is scripted, much of it sees Baron Cohen, 34, mercilessly baiting luckless Americans who fail to twig that he and his film crew are actors. Insiders...

Sacha Baron Cohen - star of HBO’s hit comedy “Da Ali G Show,” takes his outrageous Kazakstani reporter character Borat to the big screen. In this hilariously offensive movie, Borat travels from his primitive home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations. Trailer (1:33) Comedy Rating: R In Theatres: November 3rd, 2006 Larry Charles (dir.) Sacha Baron Cohen Click here to view trailer

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) Kazakhstan needs to chill out and leave Borat alone, an international media watchdog group says. Reporters Without Borders is criticizing Kazakhstan for going too far in its war over the words of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, best known in the U.S. as the title character of the satirical "Da Ali G Show." The leaders of the Central Asian ex-Soviet nation, fuming over Cohen's brutally satirical portrayal of an ignorant Kazakh journalist, pulled the plug this week on his Web-site use of a Kazakh Internet domain name. That move led the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders to issue...

The authorities in Kazakhstan, angered by a British comedian's satirical portrayal of a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh television reporter, have pulled the plug on his alter ego's Web site. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Borat in his "Da Ali G Show" and last month he used the character's Web site www.borat.kz to respond sarcastically to legal threats from the Central Asian state's Foreign Ministry. A government-appointed organization regulating Web sites that end in the .kz domain name for Kazakhstan confirmed on Tuesday it had suspended Cohen's site. "We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the .kz domain name,"...

ALMATY (Reuters) - The authorities in Kazakhstan, angered by a British comedian's satirical portrayal of a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh television reporter, have pulled the plug on his alter ego's Web site. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Borat in his "Da Ali G Show" and last month he used the character's Web site www.borat.kz to respond sarcastically to legal threats from the Central Asian state's Foreign Ministry. A government-appointed organization regulating Web sites that end in the .kz domain name for Kazakhstan confirmed on Tuesday it had suspended Cohen's site. "We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the...

ALMATY (Reuters) - The authorities in Kazakhstan, angered by a British comedian's satirical portrayal of a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh television reporter, have pulled the plug on his alter ego's Web site. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Borat in his "Da Ali G Show" and last month he used the character's Web site www.borat.kz to respond sarcastically to legal threats from the Central Asian state's Foreign Ministry. A government-appointed organization regulating Web sites that end in the .kz domain name for Kazakhstan confirmed on Tuesday it had suspended Cohen's site. "We've done this so he can't badmouth Kazakhstan under the...

NEW YORK As if responding to the escalating battle with famed TV personality Borat Sagdiyev, a character on HBO's "Da Ali G Show," the Kazakhstan government today published a four-page advertising section in The New York Times. The section, titled, "Kazakhstan in the 21st Century," carried testimonials to its oil production, its democracy, education system, and purported "power and influence" of women. The feud has been simmering for the past year, after Borat and his frank depictions of life in his homeland (where, he claims, gypsies are still hunted for sport and women rank somewhere below farm animals in the...

A Jewish British comedian who plays a boorish Kazakh character on television has satirically welcomed a legal threat from Almaty. Responding as his television personality "Borat Sagdiyev," Sacha Baron Cohen said today that he "fully supports my government's position to sue this Jew."

Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport. Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show", has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West. Baron Cohen appears to have drawn official Kazakh ire after he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month as Borat, who arrived in an Air...

Michael Collins' chronicle of South-East London looks for the roots of today's chav-bashing. The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working ClassMichael Collins Granta Books, 2004.South-East London has never enjoyed a good press. Guidebooks treat it as an afterthought, an appendix to the real business elsewhere in the capital. Historical Greenwich is mentioned, of course, and a handful of other tourist-friendly sights, but that's your lot. The days when the South Bank theatres were surrounded by syphilitic brothels and murderous backstreets are long gone, yet the stigma persists. This corner of the capital remains a world apart. In...

The director of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film has reportedly quit after a run-in with the comic. The row is thought to have been sparked after the Ali G creator nearly sparked a riot at a rodeo earlier this month.

ALI G, a k a Sasha Baron Cohen , has been plying his satirical trade in New York with mixed results. In character as Kazakhstan-born journalist "Borat," one of his personas on "Da Ali G Show," the British comic was on Park Avenue Sunday afternoon with a big map of the city turned upside down. He approached p.r. man Ronn Torossian and his wife and asked: "Where is Lexington Avenue? Is that where the Jews are?" Sadly, Torossian and 90 percent of the other New Yorkers he approached identified Cohen immediately. Luckily for us, some tourists were caught in his...

Marines learn how to fight for Allah Wait a minute. I thought we were supposed to believe that the jihadists were twisting the Qur'an. And now the American marines are studying the Qur'an in order to think like jihadists? What does that tell us? From the Times Online, with thanks to J. Lynch: AMERICAN marines and military intelligence analysts are studying the tactics of insurgents in Iraq — staging mock hostage takings, roadside bombings and suicide missions, as well as studying the Koran, praying to Allah and learning to think like jihadists. The Pentagon is struggling to adapt to an...

Borat does this bit where he's talking to a random person and starts describing aspects of a stereotypical Jew. He gestures a big nose, mentions "they hev a lot of money", and waits to see if the person correctly identifies who he's talking about. Usually, the mark gets it right. Now, does this demonstrate the bigotry of the person and/or Americans in general, as is implied by the satirical nature of the interview? I don't think so. It simply demonstrates that the person is aware of the stereotype, not necessarily that he agrees with it. Most Americans tend to be...

August 23, 2004 -- HBO's hottest comic, Sacha Baron Cohen — best known as the goofy rapper Ali G. — is in hot water for a gag-song he sang on TV that groups are calling anti-Semitic. The British version of the FCC and the U.K.'s Jewish Board of Deputies are investigating Cohen for a phony Country-Western song called "Throw the Jew Down the Well" that he performed at a rural bar in Arizona for his show. In the U.S., the sketch has also drawn fire from the Anti-Defamation League. Cohen, who is Jewish, sang the song under the guise of...

August 25, 2004 -- ATTENTION assistants of high-profile network news stars: You and your bosses are simple prey for Sacha Baron Cohen — better known as goofy British rapper/TV host Ali G. The latest newsman to fall victim to Ali G's inane questions is "60 Minutes" curmudgeon Andy Rooney, who lost his temper and tossed Ali G from his office while the rapper (who is white) accused him of being a racist — a sensitive subject with Rooney. The surreal segment aired during the end credits on last Sunday's episode on HBO. To land Rooney for the show, "Ali G"...

Right now, as you read these words, I am helping to kill something I love. Although I had heard often about this quandary in the country-western songs that blared out of my mother's car stereo while I was growing up, I never really faced it myself until last week, when Da Ali G Show: The Complete First Season DVD showed up in my mailbox. For the uninitiated, Da Ali G Show is a spoof reality show in which British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen travels America in one of three guises — Ali G, a "hip-hop journalist" clad in a yellow...

<p>May 14, 2003 -- THE bad blood between HBO and feminist author Naomi Wolf continues to boil. Some months ago, faux-black British satirist Ali G interviewed Wolf for his "Da Ali G Show," in which he rankled the former Al Gore image consultant by bragging that he called his girlfriend "bitch" in bed, among other feminist-flustering remarks. In a subsequent interview with New York magazine, the comic branded Wolf the "world's most famous lesbian" (Wolf is in fact married with kids). The humorless Wolf later wrote an op-ed piece in the London Sunday Times saying she had called an HBO lawyer to complain of Ali G's "racist humor" and implied that she got the interview shelved in the U.S. But an HBO spokeswoman insists the "decision to not use the Naomi Wolf piece was made prior to her phone call to HBO." Wolf isn't the first unsuspecting celebrity ambushed by Ali G (alter-ego of Cambridge-educated Sacha Cohen): Newt Gingrich, James Baker, Brent Scowcroft and Marlin Fitzwater have all grown exasperated by Ali G's lame-brained line of questioning.</p>

Feminist writer consults lawyers over Ali G Feminist writer Naomi Wolf has reportedly called in lawyers after being the victim of a spoof interview with Ali G. She claims she was used for racist humour, after the comic accosted her at a hotel in New York for his new US chat show. It is thought Wolf was furious when Ali - alias Sacha Baron Cohen - boasted to her that he called his girlfriend, Julie, bitch in bed. And he got her to rap: "Yo, yo, don't be sexist, I'll let you ride in my Lexus." He then asked the...

Is You Wicked? By MAUREEN DOWD ames Baker, the former secretary of state who helped make two Bushes president, the first by sniping at Massachusetts, the second by snatching away Florida, is an extremely careful man. A dignified diplomat with a deep fear of ridicule, Mr. Baker always keeps his suit jacket and his public utterances buttoned. That is why I was dumbfounded one recent night to see him being interviewed on HBO by a hip-hop guy wearing fatigues, shades, a skullcap and bling-bling and talking like a British gangsta/Rasta rapper. The young man was asking a skeptical and increasingly...

Sacha Baron Cohen is a white, British-Jewish comedian who has made a nice living by dressing up as a "hip-hop journalist" (lurid yellow running suit, wraparound sunglasses, knitted hat) named Ali G. In this persona, Cohen dupes important people into appearing on TV with him in an interview format, where he asks them silly questions phrased in low street slang. This act has been so successful in Britain that celebrities there are no longer taken in by Cohen's requests for "interviews." He has therefore brought it to the U.S.A., where it began airing on HBO this February. Among those reeled...

Ali G and his film crew have been forced to flee a mob of neo-Nazis while working in the US. Sacha Baron Cohen was playing a camp Austrian fashion reporter called Bruno when he angered white supremacists at a rally in Georgia. A cameraman was attacked after the comic wound up one of the mob by admiring the racists' look - and asking if they used moisturiser. Producer Dan Mazer told the New York Times: "I can't remember what the trigger question was, but all of a sudden the guy we were interviewing exploded. "He started physically attacking the cameraman...