Mahir To Borat, I Sue You!

An anonymous reader writes "The mockumentary Borat bears more than a passing resemblance to late '90s net celeb Mahir Cagri of ikissyou.org, and he's not amused. Steven Leckart of Wired magazine gives him the third degree."

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

[celerityfm]

This Wired article has already been debunked [electronic...etwork.com], with more sources then you can shake a stick at. The bottom line is that The earliest date we can determine for Mahir Cagri's website is 1998 and the earliest known mention of Sacha Cohen's Borat character is 1994.

So. Thanks Wired for reminding us of Mahir, gotta love him, and for stirring up more press about Borat. But please don't blemish Sacha Baron Cohen like this. On the DVD commentary for the first season Sacha Baron Cohen said his character was based off of a doctor he met in Russia- it's based on someone else, not Mahir. If anything that Russian has a chance to sue Cohen I suppose :P

In any case, any publicity is good publicity, rite?

Also, first post bitches!

neither is new

[NNland]

I would also mention that playing a character from a foreign country to mock the US was done in the 70's by Andy Kaufman, which makes both of these guys (no matter how funny or relevant) "style biters".

Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong!

[eldepeche]

Kazakhstan is not a middle eastern country.

Monty Python have alreay done that one.

[BeerCat]

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