Sacha Baron Cohen

 
Sorry, Mel Gibson, you've lost another one.

In light of her impending wedding to uber Jew, Sacha Baron Cohen, actress Isla Fisher has officially converted to Judaism.

"He always makes me laugh. He's the funniest guy in the world!" Fisher said of the man who has made Borat a household, hilarious name.

To fans, Isla Fisher is probably best known for her crazed role in Wedding Crashers. Therefore, we can only assume that co-stars such as Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn join rabbis across the world in wishing this couple well.

While no date is set for the ceremony, a source says: "They will get married soon." Fisher has even learned to cook traditional Jewish meals, assuring she may grow as thin as Nicole Richie.

That was a bad-tasting-Jewish-food joke.

What's Sacha Baron Cohen to do? Is it his fault his alter ego, Borat, doesn't grasp American customs?

According to an etiquette teacher who appears in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, someone must pay for the faux journalist's hijinks. She's filed a complaint claiming she was fooled into appearing in the film.

In the movie, Cindy Streit, who owns the Birmingham, Ala.-based Etiquette Training Services, appears in a dinner party with Borat; at one point, he hands her a plastic bag supposedly filled with feces.

Streit says she was contacted by a production company about filming a segment with an "international guest from Belarus Television."

She said she arranged for Borat to attend a dinner party with her friends, which went smoothly until he asked to use the bathroom.

"I had taught him to excuse himself. He did that correctly and went upstairs," Streit said. "The next thing that happened is that he came down the stairs holding this plastic bag with whatever was in it."

It could be worse, Cindy. You could look like Owen Wilson.

Streit, who has hired Amber Frey attorney Gloria Allred, said she filed a complaint Thursday with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, requesting an investigation into possible violations of the California Unfair Trade Practices Act.

This suit sounds like it has as much merit as the existence of a Britney Spears sex tape. Sorry, David Hans Schmidt.

By now, Borat is a man, a myth and a legend.

He charms. He asks questions. He speaks his mind. He offends millions. He loves Pamela Anderson. He wants Madonna to raise his child!

He's also made up. Borat is the brain child of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. The creator recently sat down with Rolling Stone and gave his first interview out of character.

On becoming a matter of national controversy:
"I wish I would have been there at the briefing that Bush got about who I am, who Borat is. It would have had to be great."

On Kazakhstan's objections to being misrepresented in the film:
"I was surprised, because I always had faith in the audience that they would realize that this was a fictitious country and the mere purpose of it was to allow people to bring out their own prejudices … I think the joke is on people who can believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can exist."

** THG Note: Does anyone doubt Anna Nicole Smith would think that?

On anti-Semitism:
"Borat essentially works as a tool. By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice, whether it's anti-Semitism or an acceptance of anti-Semitism ... I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw.

And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic."

Now those are some Borat quotes worth listening to.

It's unlikely his movie will flop, but just in case, Borat has a back-up plan.

At Wednesday's London premiere of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the bumbling, faux journalist told reporters about his grand plan.

"I have come here with Bilak, my 11 year old son, his wife and their child, and we are hoping maybe to put some chocolate make-up on the child's face and sell him to Madonna. I am hoping that Madonna will be a very good father for it."

The Material Mother, meanwhile, was on Oprah Winfrey today, blaming the media for making such an issue out of her recent adoption. "

"Shame on you for discouraging other people from doing the same thing," she said.
Of course, if Mads doesn't want another child, Borat has other backup plans: Ice maker, gypsy catcher or animal sperm collector, specializing in camels.

The last of which, naturally, is how Linsday Lohan spends her Wednesday nights.

First, a press conference. Now, an interview with Entertainment Weekly. Borat is everywhere.

Let's hear what the personality created by Sacha Baron Cohen had to say recently:

Are your friends and family treating you differently now that you're a big Hollywood movie star?
BORAT: They has start to asking me for favours. My mother want a pretty hat, my 12 year old son, Hooeylewis, want eat beef jerky and my 11 year old son, Bilak, want to do a sexytime with Lindsay Lohans. Of course, these has not all be possible, but I am hope soon to find the hat for my mother.

What are the best perks that have come with fame so far?
There has been many perk of be in this moviefilm - example I can now get table at Almaty McDonalds with as little as 2 month notice. The wait time is normal 4 years. Also, along with OJ Simpsons and our glorious leader, Premier Nazarbayev, I was one of judge on hit TV show, 'Kazakhstan's Next Top Prostitute'. I give decision for 'Best Grip of Small Hole' round. Hi-Five!

What is the first thing you plan to buy once the big checks start coming in?
I am hope very much to make purchase of latest recordings from chocolate face Michael Jackson, 'Beat It,' on brand new format, compact cassette.

Which Hollywood star have you met who you were most excited about? Who would you most like to meet?
I recent meet beautiful popular musicstar, Madonna, in Hollywood outside Chinese Theatre. She let me take photograph for 5 US dollar and say that for another ten she would give me mouth party in parking lot across street.

The Kazakh government has shut down your website and threatened to sue Sacha Baron Cohen for defaming the people of Kazakhstan. What do you say in response?
Firstly I am respectable, professional journalist and I will not be drawn into mudslingings with anyone - especially not a Jew. Second, I would like thank the glorious Premier of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, for recent travel to Washingtons to support me and promote this moviefilm.

How is Kazakh humor different from American humor?
In Kazakhstan we still find very funny actor Robin Williams. Especial his new movie 'Womanman Doubtfires'.

What do you say to people who charge that your movie is particularly offensive to Jews?
Yes. Is a good observations. Thank you very much.

Borat sure knows how to make Mel Gibson proud, doesn't he?

Borat is at it again.

No, he wasn't kicked off White House grounds this time. He was holding a press conference in Paris that began: "Good afternoon gentlemen and prostitutes. How much? I have dollars."

As Lindsay Lohan probably sat back and did the math in her head, the alter ego of Sacha Baron Cohen, was across the ocean to promote his new film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In it, he takes shots at Uzbekistan, President Bush and American women in general.

Having just toured America, the fictional TV reporter told the press:

"We in Kazakhstan admire very much Premier Bush. He is very wise man but not only this, he is very strong," said Borat . "Although perhaps not as strong as his father, Barbara. Tough guy. Like John Waynes."

Or Justin Timberlake in this picture.

The character has been butting heads with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev and causing criticism with his racist and sexist remarks - more of which he made yesterday.

"My best memories is the very nice peoples I meet, but also some of the shocking things I see in America," said Borat, "For example, womens is allowed, in America, to drive a car. It is crazy. We say in my country to let a woman drive a car is like to let a monkey fly a plane. Very dangerous, yes?"

Right. You also could've gone with the "give a mirror to Anna Nicole Smith" metaphor, but yours works, as well.

We don't know if President Bush was too busy admiring Matt Lauer again, but he didn't make time for Borat.

Yes, the faux-TV-reporter from Kazakhstan and alter-ego of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen went all the way to the gates of the White House yesterday to invite the "Mighty Warlord Premier Bush" to a screening of his upcoming movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Sadly, the bushy-moustachioed Borat was turned away by Secret Service agents as he tried to hand a paper invitation through the White House gates to a security guard.

Indeed, he was turned away faster than Bam Margera at a meeting for people who did not have sex with Jessica Simpson.

Earlier, Borat - to the amusement of the press - "blasted" the "mythmaking "of the rival Uzbek government and their assertions that Kazakhs "do not drink fermented horse urine, give death penalty for baking bagels, or export over 300 tonnes of human pubis per year."

If Bush does end up accepting Borat's invitation, he'll be in unique company; the supposed reporter said that he invited other "American dignitaries" like O.J. Simpson and "Mel Gibsons." to talk with thim.