19 July 2005
BORAT IS BIBLE BELTED
By Victoria Ward
CHEEKY Ali G star Sacha Baron Cohen has upset a family in America's Deep South by asking them joke questions about Jews, gay rights and slavery.function newPrintableWindow(objectid,path) { popUpWindow = window.open(path+'?objectid='+objectid+'&siteid=94762', 'Article', 'width=450,height=500,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,menubar=yes'); popUpWindow.focus(); }
The TV prankster, in his guise as Kazakh reporter Borat, also introduced them to a black woman, claimed she was a prostitute and then snogged her.
But the unamused Marshall clan threw the comedian out of their Mississippi home in the US bible belt. So Borat banged on the door and screamed: "I do not understand your customs!"
Film maker Heather Marshall was furious. She said: "Our ancestors have been in this house for 152 years.
"This turned out to be the first unpleasant episode we have experienced since the Civil War."
Cohen's Ali G Show pranks have made him a cult hit in the US.
So Borat banged on the door and screamed: "I do not understand your customs!" ...
