I laughed at Borat: Kazakh diplomat

Erlan Idrissov, the Kazakh ambassador to Britain, has admitted he laughed at many of the jokes in a film about Borat, the fictional reporter from Kazakhstan doing a tour of the United States.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has caused a stormy reaction from the Kazakh government - it has threatened legal action, and last month published a four-page supplement in The New York Times extolling the country's attractions.

"I sincerely laughed at many of the jokes, but at the same time couldn't get rid of a feeling of being a bit insulted," Idrissov told The Times newspaper, after it hosted a private screening of the film for him.

The newspaper said Idrissov laughed when Borat - British comic Sacha Baron Cohen - was depicted pursuing a live chicken through the carriage of a New York subway train, and again when a US government official agreed to eat cheese at the beginning of an interview, told it was a "Kazakh tradition", only to be told later that it was made from human breast milk.

The ambassador did not, however, laugh when the film suggested Kazakhs have a Spanish-style festival called "the running of the Jew", in which citizens flee while being chased by people wearing caricature masks, The Times said.

Baron Cohen, himself a Jew, also takes swipes at feminists, gays, blacks and US President George W Bush's "war of terror" in the film.

BB: Good to see the diplomat has a sense of humor. Maybe Kazakhs were the target because of their tolerance??

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