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November 15, 2005 at 3:53 PM | 0 Comments

Can you put a price on comedy? The government of Kazakhstan sure thinks so. They're threatening to sue British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (better known as Ali G.) because of the "unacceptable" and "derogatory" nature of his character Borat, who hails from Kazakhstan. In a statement to the press, Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev said:

"We view Mr. Cohen's behavior at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners which is completely incompatible with ethics and civilized behavior...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. We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind.

Guess the Kazakh government wasn't too pleased with Cohen's behavior at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon a few weeks ago. At the show, which he hosted as Borat, he entered in an Air Kazakh plane flown by a one-eyed pilot holding a bottle of vodka.

Is this the first time somebody has been sued by an entire country? That oughta help out the old Q rating.

No word on whether Cohen has actually been to Kazakhstan, but Borat may be working on a new version of an old song...

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