Borat is dead.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:45 pm

Borat is dead

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Report: Baron Cohen Offing Borat, Ali G
Friday, December 21st, 2007 at 7:05pm EST

NEW YORK

Borat is dead. Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.

"When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them, so admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing," the 36-year-old actor-comedian says in the British newspaper's Friday edition.

"It is like saying goodbye to a loved one. It is hard, and the problem with success, although it's fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I `get' with Borat again, so it's a kind of self-defeating form, really."

Baron Cohen brought Borat Sagdiyev _ an anti-Semitic buffoon in search of Pamela Anderson _ to the masses last year with his smash comedy, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." He first introduced the character on "Da Ali G Show," which was carried in the U.S. on HBO.

"It's much easier for me to be in character and it's a lot more fun," he says. "If I'd done the entire promotional campaign for (the `Borat' movie) as myself it wouldn't have developed in the same way."

Baron Cohen _ not Borat _ can be seen as a singing barber in Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd," co-starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

His spokesman, Matt Labov, did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages by The Associated Press seeking comment on the "deaths" of Borat and Ali G.

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oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:27 pm

Why can't he just be himself ?

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:18 pm

I guess he won't be doing the "The Running of the Jews" at the burn next year.

Quite frankly, I thought his character was stupid and demeaning to both Jews and Muslims. borat won't b missed

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:33 pm

I don't know who the fuck borat is but I suppose he could just stay in character and live forever in reruns.

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:04 am

and those residual keep coming and coming and...

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:22 am

And he could marry the energizer bunny!

ALICEtheGOON · Post by **ALICEtheGOON** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:53 am

Box Burner wrote:And he could marry the energizer bunny!

hahah nutball