All "Borat" All the Time

A reader points to the August 13, 2004 article in The Forward by Nathaniel Popper about the notorious "Throw the Jew Down the Well" sing-along scene:

A very different picture, though, emerged from a conversation with the treasurer of the company that owns the bar, Carol Pierce, who said that she herself is Jewish. Pierce could be seen during the segment on HBO, laughing heartily behind her goateed husband.

In explaining her light-hearted take on Borat, she pointed out that what television viewers saw was only a few minutes of the two-and-a-half-hour performance that Borat gave when he came to Tucson, Ariz., in April. The rest of Borat’s performance, in which he sang about throwing his wife and family down the well, made it perfectly clear to Pierce that the man performing was a comedian in disguise — who was very funny.

“You could tell by the way they presented him. They brought him in and said he was an up-and-coming country music star,” Pierce recalled. “You could tell right away it was a wig he was wearing, and a fake mustache. I would say 99% of the people in here saw that, too.”

Well, actually it's his own hair. In fact, I used to have hair and a mustache just like Borat, about 1985. Good times, good times ...

What's annoying about the critics' hyping of ""Borat" is that they just can't let it be a funny movie, like "Dumb and Dumber." It has to be drafted into the Great American Status War. Look, it's not "Schindler's List." It's an expertly-done string of Polish Jokes. Why isn't that enough?

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