Sacha Baron Cohen apologized to Kazakhs for the first time for Borat Baron Cohen's most famous character, the Kazakh journalist Borat Sedayev, is terribly annoying to real Kazakhs. Even the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, criticized the first Borat film. There was really something to be angry about. Kazakhstan, as described by Baron Cohen, embodies all the Western stereotypes of an "uncivilized country". At the same time, there is nothing of the real Kazakhstan - no names, no first names, not even the most superficial elements of culture; In fact, this is a completely fictional country, which for some reason was named after a real country. In the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast, the late comedian apologized to the people of Kazakhstan and admitted: Borat has nothing to do with them. In fact, the character changed his name and nationality more than once when Baron Cohen played him for different shows on different networks. On Granada Talk TV he was from Moldova, on BBC Two he was from Albania. And it was only on Channel 4 that Borat Sadeev from Kazakhstan became. "I asked myself: what country does no one know anything about? Kazakhstan rose," recalls the comedian. In a speech to the people of Kazakhstan, Baron Cohen said that he respects their culture and asked "not to take everything personally". He also added that he doesn't know how to present a real Kazakh accent. “I don't know what your accent really is. You don't look like Borat. "This is how I say goodbye to you, tomorrow I will be replaced by guest presenter Mikhail Gerasimov. goodbye!