Borat

host Bill Simmons host Kyle Brandt producer Craig Horlbeck

What aged best: Local-news bloopers, pre-smartphone public pranks, the conference-run anecdote, and throwaway lines
Weakest link: The film’s short length
What aged worst: Overused Borat impressions, a racial slur, and group porn viewing

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Who won the movie Sacha Baron Cohen
Scorsese or Spielberg Martin Scorsese

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:00:58

Sacha Baron Cohen deserved a Best Actor nomination

Bill Simmons: Sacha Baron Cohen is proposed for the 2007 Best Actor field in place of Peter O’Toole

Kyle Brandt: A return to left-cheek, right-cheek greetings is proposed as a separate hot take

The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:18:52

“Do not let a woman ever make who you are”

Bill Simmons: The fraternity student’s warning not to let a woman define you is selected

The film

Borat (2006)

Directed by Larry Charles · Comedy

84 minutes

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Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Sacha Baron Cohen Borat Sagdiyev ( Kazakh / Russian

Ken Davitian Azamat Bagatov ( Kazakh / Russian

Luenell Luenell the prostitute; first seen when Borat calls her to come to the Southern dinner. She later returns with Borat to Kazakhstan and the two wed

Pamela Anderson herself; she plays a central role in the film as the reason for the journalist's cross country journey. She also appears in person at the end of the film, in a botched abduction attempt by Borat for marriage

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