ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -- Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport. Sacha 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, on British and U.S. channels. 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 Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle. "We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way," Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing. "We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind." He declined to elaborate.
Yeah, I read that...I think it's hilarious. So what's next, Austria suing him for the gay reporter skit? England suing him for the Ali G character? Ali G rules.
It's funny, because I was going to post that most Americans probably never even heard of Kazachstan before Ali G, but then I thought this could have been considered rude .
The most important thing we need to know about this country is . . . . . . . . . . . [/bush bashing insert to reaffirm my liberal status after my un-pc remark]
I didn't know what Kazakhstannis did for a living, but they sure know how to put women in their place after a good goat buggerin.
I think it's been said by Clutch a million times by now. Post links to the articles if you're going to post the article guys and gals.
