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Borat in 2020 (Patreon)

Published:
2020-12-03 00:32:41
Edited:
2020-12-03 00:36:26
Imported:
2021-02

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This is delayed because it's the rare sponsored video, and I'm still negotiating with Audible, so here is the Audible-free version, a Patreon exclusive for... however long it takes Audible to give me the go-ahead. Very nice.

Also I know that in the UK he's called "Baron Cohen" instead of just "Cohen" but I didn't want to rerecord all that, so oh well. Sorry SBC.

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Why Borat Works Better in 2020

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Comments

WJ ZAV

You know, I love the fact that I can never predict what topic you are gonna tackle next...

Anonymous

(insert overused gif of Borat saying VERY NICE)

Anonymous

I'm glad you did this one, I didn't think I could stomach watching what Borat was able to draw out of people this time and it was easier to handle it in this context.

Anonymous

“Borat is good because the world is bad”, hell of a conclusion.

Anonymous

Very nice!

Anonymous

Will we have to leave the same poignant comments on the release-ready video, too?

Anonymous

Thank you for making this Lindsay! I was very unsure of why a Borat film should even exist in 2020, and this helps

Anonymous

What a chilling movie, fantastic video Lindsay.

gridsleep

Borat was never my cup of tea. Have you ever watched "How To Murder Your Wife"? The original about pushing the button. That was 55 years ago.

Anonymous

Ok so Borat is Batman got it.

Anonymous

You could have made a 20+ minutes video of Cartman just being anti-Semitic

Anonymous

So... I have not seen the very nice subsequent film as of yet but if it anything like Sasha in "Who is America?" show, a very nice, satire show of politic, then I can realize why the critical people are loving the new subsequent film in the reviews.

Anonymous

Excellent Video! And I'm so glad to have been able to support the non-Audible version. I was reminded recently of Audible/Amazon using their monopoly power to squeeze authors on their royalty rates. It just one of those disheartening things that occasionally I'm happy to get away from. Looking forward to the next topic you tackle!

JackMagic

Hey Lindsay, I really appreciate that you release your episodes early on Patreon, but would it be better for you financially or for the algorithm if we watched them when they're uploaded to YouTube with the sponsor and everything? I just want to know what would give you the most support.

Nick S

Dang. I can see how hard it'd be to get a sponsor to jump in at the end of this! Excellent work again. I think you're right about Borat working so much better in 2020. I do have to say, though, I'm not sure it's warranted to ascribe the best intentions to Borat's depiction of foreigners. I never felt like it was an elaborate trap to show how Americans view others. I think it was telling how in that 2012 interview, Cohen said he wasn't that concerned with anti-semitism in Britain "but in Eastern Europe...". If 2016 taught us anything, it's that Occam's razor is the best tool to apply when judging whether racism is winking/ironic or not.

Anonymous

not sure if this is intentional or an oversight, but the office clip cuts off right before the actual bigotry. david brent is supposed to say, "oh no, it's the other one," because the joke is not that he thinks this guy can do ali g because of his race, but because he has him confused with another person of the same race who does do that impersonation around the office. anyway, great vid. i really appreciate the bit at the end highlighting how much gaslight the right is trying to get away with right now

Anonymous

Well done!

Anonymous

Excellent. I've never watched Borat other than in clips but I'm interested in different takes on this kind of 'humour'.

Anonymous

Great video! The part which always strikes me about Borat's skits is how he catches people going along with his disgusting comments when they're at work. One of the insidious traits he reveals over and over is that people will go along with all his ridiculous requests and rhetoric if they're selling him something. The lady writing "Jews Will Not Replace Us" on a cake is making a sale and giving the customer what they want, and you don't challenge a customer. I imagine most of us have worked jobs where you are expected to allow abusive behaviour from a customer because in capitalism the sale is everything.

Anonymous

Thank you for watching Borat so I don't have to! Seriously, I felt like I should watch it to stay culturally literate, but that sort of humor makes my skin crawl.

Anonymous

These were my thoughts exactly while watching “Subsequent Moviefilm”! I liked Borat just fine in 06 but the character is a revelation in 2020. I can only hope that he won’t be needed 15 years from now... but I’m not confident about that.

Anonymous

Thanks for this, Lindsay! I had really mixed feelings about this film and Borat in general, but this put a lot of things in perspective and made me feel a TAD better about everything. Hopefully he's not needed 10 years from now! Excellent work!

Anonymous

well this is an episode i will never watch again. it is interesting and insightful, but boy do i not enjoy borat or people being horrible in these amounts...

Anonymous

I loved this video but now I want there to be a supervillain named Doomscroll.

Don Bright

so he pretty much recreated the milgram experiment, which is considered unethical and could not be done today in a psychology experiment because it wouldnt pass ethical review, but he got away with it because it was for a comedic movie. i used to love this stuff, including tom green, .... the interesting thing about Michael Moore here is that before Farenheit 9/11 he was known for a TV show called TV Nation, but before that for Roger and Me.... which could almost be seen as a kind of proto-Borat. That iself had to have been influenced by Errol Morris documentaries like Gates of Heavan which blurred the line between exploitation and art. The thing is that i used to think these people were all amazing because they were disrupting the traditional media system with their edgy shows.

Don Bright
>>48873940

now i kind of wonder if their disruption of the media system also led to things like qanon spreading on facebook. like as if borat is examining the result of his own thesis, which was that traditional media is a joke and there should be no rules. expressed most clearly when he had the camera go straight down his dick-hole in the middle of Bruno... like i dont think there is a deep message behind that sequence. i kind of miss the rules. the good thing to come out of it is that i became interested in central asia. there is a fascinating book called Tehran Children about Jewish refugees from Poland who wound up in Iran because the Soviet Union evacuated them from Poland during WWII.

Anonymous
>>48848570

I often wonder how much pushback they get. Do they have to go to a dozen bakeries to get someone willing to write that? Do they have people say "Well Sacha, I mean, Mr. Borat, we know the cameras are rolling so I'll play along" and just cut those bits out? As many others here have said, Borat isn't my kind of humour but I'd love to see a documentary about the making of Borat.

Eli Bildirici

first rate stuff here. i wasn't gonna see the new one as i've never liked this kind of thing but now i'm intrigued. also, got a little thrown off by not seeing you at all in this, but it absolutely worked

Anonymous

This is great, and exactly what I pay my monthly pittance for. Not that you should be guided by that in any way.

Anonymous

video fantastic. Very nice.

Sideshow Bob Stepping On Rakes

I'm sure you've already caught it, but there's a typo in Problematic at 1:28 Was an awesome video, kind of felt I didn't need to watch the Borat sequel any more by the end!

Anonymous

Thank you for the video! Not so sure I agree with the bottom line though. About twenty something years ago, I used to work in a part-time job, and me along with some other workers made sort of comedy sketches on our free time, when one of my characters was basically a racist idiot. We kept the joke going for years when we kept in touch after college and real jobs, but then the politics around us slowly changed, and I noticed that what used to be a joke is now the reality in the congress with actual voters who believe these ideas (BTW, not from the US, but using these terms to make it easier) After that, I simply stopped because I didn't find it funny anymore. This is more or less what I think of Borat. Regardless of what I think of this comedy style in general, what used to be amusing because it exposed things we didn't know, I just don't think it works after 2016. It's like making a joke about a group of people with tiki torches chanting nazi slogans without any punchline other than that. South-Park did something similar in about their second season, but it just wouldn't work as a joke now. Too close to reality.

Anonymous

That was disturbing. By that I mean it reveals just how much we have become the enemies of democracy; just how much we have become the enemies of freedom. We have become a caricature. We can, and should, do better.

Anonymous

Very late to commenting on this upload but I think I have something you folks might find interesting regarding Maria Bakalova and her casting choice. In an interview she does with James Corden, she says that she send the audition video in convinced that it was a sex trafficking trap, and thus sent herself drunk and joking around at a party. Though it is like, incredibly disturbing and very realistic that a young Bulgarian actress sees everything urging her to come work in 'the west' as a sex trafficking trap, it also adds to the brilliance of her casting choice. Here is a woman who is not only already being viewed and prayed upon as a potential sex worker/ a body to be trafficked, but a woman who is aware of that perception. I think it gives her performance a certain amount of realism and humerus subversion.