What's your favorite scene from the movie Borat?

[red dog 1]

So many hilarious scenes to choose from.

When he calls a black hooker & invites her to dinner at the segregationists' home

When he sings the Kazakhstan National Anthem to the tune of the U.S National Anthem, angering a stadium-full of redneck rodeo enthusiasts

When he meets with Congressman Bob Barr, offers him some homemade cheese, and then tells him that it was made with his wife's breast milk.

When he chases Pamela Anderson out from behind her book signing table & into the parking lot.


But I guess my favorite scene is right after he lands in New York.
He goes on the subway, attempts to kiss several men on the cheek, and then accidentally lets his pet chicken out of his suitcase & chases the chicken around the subway car.

[bigwillq]

1. That movie was classic

I thought it was hysterical.

[Initech]

2. Easily got to be the rodeo scene.

One of the funniest scenes in any movie.

[red dog 1]

4. I hope that girl on the horse holding the flag wasn't hurt when she fell off..

..when the horse bucked because he was frightened by all the people booing at Borat.

and I hope the horse is okay too.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

3. The rodeo scene

I also liked the dinner scene and when they interrupted the meeting in the hotel conference room.

[NightWatcher]

5. I couldn't stand that movie.

I'm no elitist, in fact I love low brow humor, but Borat (and Cohen) seemed to be trying way to hard to be funny and abrasive.

To be fair, I've never liked anything he's done.

[Xyzse]

14. Same here actually.

Good god, at least it wasn't Bruno.

[Populist_Prole]

16. Didn't do anything for me either; I thought it was just me

Several people highly recommended it to me, using all manner of superlatives and gestures describing it and all but insisted I see it. I could manage scarcely even a weak chuckle. The humor was too forced and obvious, and low-brow for the sake of being low-brow. I thought it would build as the movie went on. It didn't.

As with you, I can appreciate low-brow humor too. The movie 'Clerks' for example, is raunchier and lower brow than 'Borat' but the dialogue was clever and snappy from beginning to end.

[LynneSin]

6. The one right after I turn off the TV

I tried watching that movie but I just didn't like it

[PasadenaTrudy]

7. The hotel scene

When Borat comes out of the bathroom and (I forget the character's name) is beating off to a pic of Pamela Anderson. The hilarity that follows....

[red dog 1]

8. Then the fat guy ran out of the hotel room naked & Borat, also naked, chased him

..into the elevator (the faces on those women) and then through the lobby and into a convention of Realtors, who finally subdued them.

Great scene!

[PasadenaTrudy]

11. Yes, that's it!

Classic! I had tears I was laughing so hard.

[Enrique]

9. the comedy lessons

and the etiquette lessons.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. The scene at the guest dinner table

in a house on Secession Drive, where he mistakes a retired man for a "retard" because of the southern accent and brings a black hooker causing the guests to disperse.

[LeftinOH]

12. When he proudly displays a picture of his "son"...

and brags about the length of his >>>>&gt

[cemaphonic]

13. I thought the movie was much like those SNL character movies.

Take a great concept for a 5 minute sketch, and stretch it out to movie length, killing all the humor in the process. Nothing in the movie was anywhere near as good as the "throw the Jews down the well" bit from the Ali G show, or the time he went door-to-door with a political candidate, offering helpful slogans like "he will be strong, like Stalin" or "if you do not vote for him, he will seize power."

Plus, I'm not convinced that the show was as unstaged as it's made out to be, but a lot of the scenes in the movie were definitely staged, which totally changes the nature of the jokes (for the worse). And yeah, the rodeo and hooker bits were the best parts of the movie, because they were executed just like the tv show.

[red dog 1]

17. "Throw the Jew down the well, So my country will be free,

Grab him by the horns, Then we'll have a big party"

Cohen, as Bruno, got an entire bar full of people to sing along with him on that one.

[Brother Buzz]

15. When Borat runs out of the ladies strip club in his underwear....

with his testicles hanging to his knees, like a bell clapper letting freedom ring.

That wasn't Borat?

Never mind!

[Initech]

19. That sounds more like Bad Grandpa.

Another equally hilarious movie.

[Brother Buzz]

20. In my perfect world they would be paired for a double feature down at the Bijou Theatre

[Initech]

18. "This is my neighbor Yusuf Von Bagtite. He is pain in my assholes. "

"I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step. I get clock radio... he cannot afford. Great success!"