Dumb Lawsuits

Ever since his movie turned his alter ego into a household name and his character into an impression that co-workers with low self-esteem and poor personalities would try to imitate, Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as “Borat,” has remained relatively silent except when he’s wearing his 70’s porn star mustache, even while some of the poor saps who appeared in his movie were filing lawsuits against him like some kind of machines that file lawsuits (sorry folks, the simile mine has been picked clean today). But all that changed after he picked up the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy.

According to an interview with the Los Angeles Times,Cohen blasted the people who filed the lawsuits saying nothing was taken out of context and they weren’t tricked into appearing on camera.

“This wasn’t ‘Candid Camera,’ ” he says. “There were two large cameras in the room. I don’t buy the argument that, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t have acted so racist or anti-Semitic if I’d known this film was being shown in America.’ That’s no excuse.”

That’s right America. How dare you try to tell a foreigner that they don’t have the right to free expression, even if we saved their asses in WWII. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

He also claims that none of the footage from his TV show to his blockbuster movie were re-edited or taken out of context to make any of the people look racist or anti-Semitic. That was quite a surprise. I thought they hired Lucasfilm to digitally insert needless, overblown and obviously fake racial computer effects. Man, did he have me fooled.

Borat (dammit, I did it again, that wasn’t a forced joke, I actually accidentally called him Borat instead of Cohen), Cohen also talks about the incredible pain that comes with being Borat. He said he had to play the character night and day because the tiniest slip-up could ruin the reality of the character and, therefore, the movie. Boy, do I know what that’s like. It’s hard pretending to be an #(#hole 24-hours a day. Speaking of which, I need a nap.