This is right. Borat & his "Kazakhstan" are a complicated sophisticate/rube comedy. We the sophisticates in audience know that Borat is absurd stereotype & comedy is at rubes he interacts with who take him literally.https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1320746978007986182 …
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I'd add that a lot of Borat's "Kazakhstan" belongs to a particular tradition of bittersweet Jewish comedy about memories of old country that was unvarnishedly human, rough, & at times oppressive. Al Capp's Lower Slobovia, Fiddler on the Roof, Seth Rogen's Schlupsk
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And in the first movie lots of hebrew!
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Replying to @MarkHolum @sadogre
In the new movie as well.
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