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'Very Nice!' - Kazakhstan taps new Borat movie to woo tourists

Andrew Osborn and Mariya Gordeyeva, Reuters
Posted at Oct 27 11:05 PM

Ridiculed once again in a film featuring fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, the ex-Soviet state of Kazakhstan has embraced the joke this time round and adopted Borat's catch phrase to try to attract tourists.   Read more »

Kazakhstan, reversing itself, embraces ‘Borat’ as very nice

Joel Stein, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 26 11:58 PM

“It’s a newer generation,” he said. “They’ve got Twitter, they’ve got Instagram, they’ve got Reddit, they know English, they know memes. They get it. They’re inside the media world. We’re looking at the same comedians, the same Kimmel show. Kazakhstan is globalized.”   Read more »

'Who is America?': Cohen splits critics with TV return

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 16 05:20 PM

Its splashy debut won most attention Sunday for hoodwinking Republican politicians into endorsing a made-up plan to train pre-schoolers how to fire a gun. Read more »

Star of 'Borat' and 'Bruno' returns satirical gaze to U.S.

Reuters
Updated as of Jul 10 01:54 PM

Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian who ridiculed Kazakhstan and Middle America in "Borat" and satirized the fashion industry in "Bruno," is heading back to television for the first time in a decade with a comedy series about the United States. Read more »