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Borat is attacked on street over joke
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has been punched in the face repeatedly after he tried one of his Borat jokes on a man walking down the street in New York.
According to reports, the actor approached a man walking down the street and said, in his character Boratâs accent: âI like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it.â
The man did not see the funny side of the remark and began to punch the comedian in the face repeatedly
A friend of the actor reportedly said: âSacha couldnât resist playing the fool as Borat, but picked on the wrong person.â
âI guess this guy thought he was being attacked by someone unstable and lashed out. Sacha is very lucky he didnât get a much worse beating.â
Cohen was walking to a bar with actor Hugh Laurie when the incident occurred.
Students are suing over Borat film
Two American college students who appear making racist and sexist comments in the box office hit âBorat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstanâ are suing the filmâs producers and movie giant 20th Century Fox claiming that they were duped into appearing in the movie.
In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Thursday, the students, named as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, say that they agreed to appear in the film after producers promised it would never be shown in the US.
The lawsuit says that the producers of the film interviewed the students at their frat house and then brought them to a drinking establishment. It says that after a period of âheavy drinkingâ the students were presented with consent forms, which they signed.
The lawsuit continues that the students were then brought to a motor home for filming of what they were told would be a âdocumentary-styleâ movie and âwere encouraged to continue drinking, which they didâ.
âBelieving the film would not be viewed in the United States and at the encouragement of (the filmmakers), plaintiffs engaged in behaviour they otherwise would not have engaged in,â the suit says.
The plaintiffs say they have suffered âhumiliation, mental anguish, emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the communityâ because of the film.
Olivier Tailleiu, lawyer for the plaintiffs, said that the film has cost one of the students a job at a major corporation and the other âa very prestigious internshipâ.
The third student who appears in the film did not take legal action; the lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages and a court order requiring the plaintiffs to be removed from the film.
A spokesman for the filmâs distributor, 20th Century Fox, said: âThe lawsuit has no merit.â