Will the Real Borat please stand up

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Aboali.
Categories: Ramblings.

You’ve probably heard of Borat, the fictional kazakhistani reporter created by Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Ali G. What you probably didn’t know though, is that his latest movie “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” is a box office hit grossing in over 26 million dollars in the opening weekend!!!

Now, apparently a guy called Mahir Cagri wants to cash in on the action, claiming that Cohen stole the character by imitating him!!!

read here

Similarities include the quotes “I like sex” and “You can stay my home” , and the infamous tight red shorts .

Actually, this Cagri guy was quite a phenomenon on the net back in 1999 due to his hilarious (unintentionally) homepage and broken English. Infact, he’s become so famous that he’s got articles about him all over the net, look here for example:

wikipedia

about.com

“In the year 2000, the now-defunct etour.com paid Mahir a rumored-sum of $1m to tour the United States, appearing at promotional events. At the San Francisco appearance, Mahir was led through a meta-web of scenes from his webpage, posing for photos with an accordion, playing a very brief game of ping-pong, and so on.”

His website http://www.ikissyou.org is always closed due to high demand, check out the cache for it at Google.

I guess all of this proves that you can be a complete git and still make it big….
spot the similarity?

realborat.jpgborat.jpg

2 comments.

Smeghead
Comment on November 9th, 2006.

I have to say, I’ve never heard of this Mahir geezer. But is he perhaps that stupid or is it also an act. Sacha on the other hand is what one can call in Aleppean slang as “ibn 7aram sarf”. the things he comes up with, the things he does in public, the straight face he manages to pull and maintain, and the stuff he gets away with.. its gob-smacking.
I have had to resolve , after long and hard contemplation, that this guys is a bleedin genius.
He is certainly no one-hit wonder. We thought we’d seen the end of him after he killed off Ali G with that ridiculous movie (so absurd it was actually funny at times), but no, he came back with another installment of mockery and mental buggery. Best of all, he intentionally or unintentionally portrayed what mind frame middle america is in. The racism, prejudice and obscene narrow minded mental block these people are in. How could someone not see or sense something was fishy about this guy at any stage is beyond me. He might pull it off for a start and some people say that some of his victims were just too polite to do anything. Rubbish!!
There is polite and there is gullible, naive and stupid!!! Those pictures of him and his sister… come on!!!

Anyway, respect to Mr Cohen.

Mind you, i was inclined to read about his background the other day, and found out that he’s actually half Iranian, half welsh (mother Iranian Jew who became Israeli, and dad … just Welsh, perhaps sheep shagger, who knows. with a son like that, i wouldn’t surprised).
Cohen is no dump ass neither. He’s an Oxford graduate and is about to marry a very fit and petite Australian actress (from Neighbors).

I reckon Borat is gonna stick with us longer than Ali G did. And even when he’s gone, Sacha Cohen has another character which he plays, Bruno the gay Austrian fashion reporter. Quite funny. he took that character with him to the US and did some pranks on few Americans… the hilarity of it all. Blindin!

Sugar
Comment on November 29th, 2006.

i was checking youtube and found some videos for borat…
can’t beleive he is Ali G ,he looks totally diff…never liked him anyway

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