Kazakhstan threatens to sue Da Ali G Show

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ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -- Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/1...reut/index.html

[Guest Vitamin X]

An entire country suing one person?

 

Well, I guess it's only Kazakhstan.

[Slayer 0]

How do you file an international civil suit?

[2GOLD 0]

How do you file an international civil suit?

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And then how do you divide the money up after?

[Downhome 0]

Why is this news now and not a year or two ago?

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I think the bigger story here is that Kazakhstan has a Foreign Ministry...

[razazteca 0]

Why is this news now and not a year or two ago?

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Because the Ali G season 1 & 2 and the movie are now available for sale, silly. Sasha Cohn will not profit from belittling the peoples of the 'stan states!

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Brazil tried to do the same thing to The Simpsons after they portrayed Rio de Janeiro as being full of angry monkeys.

 

The Simpsons pretty much said "Fuck off," and in an episode the next season, Brazil was brought up and Homer responded, "I heard the monkey problem has gotten even worse."

[AboveAverage484 0]

Brazil tried to do the same thing to The Simpsons after they portrayed Rio de Janeiro as being full of angry monkeys.

 

The Simpsons pretty much said "Fuck off," and in an episode the next season, Brazil was brought up and Homer responded, "I heard the monkey problem has gotten even worse."

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I think the city of New Orleans also got pissed off at the Simpsons one time, from their portrayal of New Orleans in "A Streetcar Named Marge" I believe.

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Because the lyrics of the song were leaked before the episode aired. Taken alone, the song is bad, but when the New Orleans people realized that it was a crappy small town play on a fictional show and not the writers actually saying and meaning these things, it was dropped.

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ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -- Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/1...reut/index.html

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The only thing better would be if this was Tom Green instead of Ali G.

 

Both are annoying fucktards...

[Guest Vitamin X]

Because the lyrics of the song were leaked before the episode aired. Taken alone, the song is bad, but when the New Orleans people realized that it was a crappy small town play on a fictional show and not the writers actually saying and meaning these things, it was dropped.

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Cast:  New Orleeeans...

        Home of pirates, drunks, and whores!

        New Orleeeans...

        Tacky, overpriced, souvenir stores!

        If you want to go to Hell, you should make that trip

        to the Sodom and Gomorrah on the Mississipp'!

 

        New Orleeeans...

        Stinking, rotten, vomiting, vile!

        New Orleaaans...

        Putrid, brackish, maggoty, foul!

        New Orleeeans...

        Crummy, lousy, rancid, and rank!

 

        New Orleeeans!

 

Well, if it didn't apply then, it sure does now..

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Borat's at a country club, holding his fork like a shovel at a fancy dinner.

 

Borat: My sister... she is, how you say, prostitute?

 

Lady at table: That's horrible, why is she a prostitute?

 

Borat: Because she likes to make-a moneeeey! High five!

 

 

Shut your fucking mouth comparing Ali G to Tom Green.

[razazteca 0]

Ali G stole his act from Yakoff Smiroff while Tom Green is just another one of those crazy stoner skater boys doing shit to piss off his parents.

[Dangerous A 0]

Tom Green was a hack. Ali G is worlds better.

 

 

Ali G's movie also smoked Tom Green's movie. (which isn't saying much)

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Plus you have to give Cohen a ton of credit for maintaining character and thinking on his feet (though many of his jokes are essentially scripted, as in 'what is legal, what is illegal, what is Barely Legal')

Bruno's just getting more and more creepy, though. He was hilarious when he actually interviewed fashionistas, but funnily enough, i think the fashion community caught on a lot quicker than the politicians.

 

Tom Green never came out during the curtain call of a fashion show like he was the star, and did the worm.

[razazteca 0]

What would happen if John Waters directed a movie featuring both Cohn and Green?