Thursday Theeling – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Borat, Saturday the 22nd of March, Sky Movies Comedy, 8pm
Seeing as it’s the Easter weekend, we’ve had to pitch our votes a day early as we’ve got the Friday off – and so, until the next time there’s a Bank Holiday, we present the Thursday Theeling instead.
When the votes were cast the organised proletariat spoke as one voice, and elected faux Kazakhstani documentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan to the top spot for this week. The film follows Sacha Baron Cohen around his supposed homeland and the “US and A”, the “Greatest Country in the World,” where he gets into scrapes with a string of misogynist, homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic comments – none of which are as shocking or offensive as some of the responses he inadvertently extracts from his interviewees.
Not at all PC, Borat isn’t for everybody, but worth watching for the ‘Kazahk’ slang employed throughout, the ‘marriage proposal’ to Pamela Anderson, and the singing of ‘Throw the Jew Down the Well‘ to the tune of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ at a rodeo.
Borat is broadcast at 8pm on Sky Movies Comedy.
