His failure to emulate Jamaican culture is part of the joke! His whole schtick is misunderstanding the world around him. It's funny that he's trying his hardest to cosplay a character from a show he's clearly never seen

Borat, on the other hand, is just racist.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which also is kind of the point. Borat is a commentary on people.

I guess "throw the Jew down the well" is kinda funny just for the unhinged nature of the lyrics, but the real substance/funny (by absurdity) part is that he gets regular people to sing and go along with it.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I won't deny that I laughed my ass off when I saw Borat. I loved how it skewered conservatives.

But still, picking a real country was a mistake. And lying about a documentary on poverty to a poor village is incredibly scummy, no way to sugarcoat it

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I thought of that when I said it. The set up is overtly racist, and it walks a line where I COULD try to argue that it's establishing Borat as a character, but it does definitely seem to lean more on shock value while character building as a fringe benefit.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

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