{"id":1185,"date":"2006-11-03T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T16:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/throw-the-jew-etc-etc\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T16:37:53","slug":"throw-the-jew-etc-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/throw-the-jew-etc-etc","title":{"rendered":"Throw the Jew, etc., etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Rosenbaum prefers the HBO-Borat to the movie version<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[T]o me the original Borat segments were more than stupid-funny; they were extremely smart-funny, occasionally even off-handedly profound, as the fake Kazakh newsman “personality” managed to tease out moments of appalling honesty from ordinary Americans with a light touch and brilliant comic timing that made it not about him, about Borat, being a clueless foreigner, but about us being clueless Americans. Not even clueless so much as naively blind to our own implicit smugness.<\/p>\n

While Borat One [the HBO version] gave you brilliant comic intelligence, Borat Two [the movie version] gives you ass-in-your-face (and I mean that literally) grossness from an aggressively, smugly dumb foreigner. Borat One had at least a touch of the sweetness of Andy Kaufman’s Latka, his “Foreign Man,” incarnation. Borat Two, alas, is more Yakov Smirnoff hammily exploiting his accent. They botched the joke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Rosenbaum prefers the HBO-Borat to the movie version: [T]o me the original Borat segments were more than stupid-funny; they were extremely smart-funny, occasionally even off-handedly profound, as the fake Kazakh newsman “personality” managed to tease out moments of appalling honesty from ordinary Americans with a light touch and brilliant comic timing that made it … <\/p>\n

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