Borat and Ali G will be no more
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:16 am
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It's a sad day.
Sacha Baron Cohen says he's killing off alter egos Borat, the clueless Kazakh journalist, and aspiring rapper Ali G.
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"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 told the Daily Telegraph, a London newspaper.
"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."
The entertainer 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 United States on HBO.
This is what they are telling the public. Some believe Borat has gone underground and has joined a group known only as "vynsan". No lawsuits have been filed as of yet.