Sunday, November 19, 2006 |
12:34 - Such a nice boy
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Hee. Looks like Christopher Hitchens had pretty much the same reaction to Borat that I did.
Incidentally, it strikes me that there's an inherent shelf life to a schtick such as Borat, or any of its guerrilla-comedy forebears like Dave Attell's "Insomniac": if it gets too popular, well, suddenly you find yourself running into more people who react to you by saying "Hey, I saw you on Comedy Central!" than who give you any good usable material. Attell had to keep moving on to more and more obscure and far-flung locales to keep people from recognizing him, but eventually he just became too well-known for the series to continue. I'm pretty sure the "Borat" phenomenon is just about to have the same thing happen: it's so successful it kills itself.
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