"High five!" the American Film Institute congratulated 2006's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan as it bestowed an AFI Award for one of the 10 best films of that year on the transgressive comedy, adding, "The joy of the film is that no ivory tower is too tall for Borat.
He targets Christians and Jews, feminists and frat boys, and all the while offering a global catharsis; for if we can laugh together, we can live together." In retrospect, that now-we-can-all-get-along platitude certainly looks like wishful thinking, but there was no denying that the first Borat, in which prankster Sacha Baron Cohen donned a Groucho-esque mustache to travel across America in the character of Kazakhstan.
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