[lbo-talk] Borat

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On 11/10/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is that true?  If it is, Hebrew as Kazakh could give a very
> interesting twist to Cohen's minstrelsy . . . provided the audience
> understood the language (though the point would be lost on me as I
> don't know Hebrew, alas).  Has any reviewer discussed this point?
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Yep. The regularly awesome Jody Rosen did here in Slate, locating Cohen in
the vaudeville tradition of ethnic/racial humor:

http://www.slate.com/id/2152773/

[Man I feel lonely when it comes to Cohen. He's just not that funny to me,
and I love some good cringe comedy. Worse, I feel like I'm not into it
because it's too broad, that everyone's in on the joke.]

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J T.
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