Just saw Borat with my daughters (the youngest of which is 7 (quite surprisingly Belgium is the only country in Europe which rated the film ‘suitable for all ages’)). My girls loved it and so did I. Satire at its best, the joke is on the U.S.. Borat goes after Pamela Anderson but finds his true love. Hilarious. Every time Borat thinks of Pamela we get hear “Ederlezi” (and a live version here) of Time of the Gypsies, one of my fave tracks.

In search of a precedent for the Borat character we arrive at Paul Kaye’s Dennis Pennis, of whomI was a huge fan in the mid nineties. I remember one of Pennis’s line in an interview with Pierce Brosnan. “When I went to see GoldenEye, I was glued to my seat…….otherwise I would have left.”

Some Dennis at Youtube.