Publishing, Comedy

Is very nice!

High-five, book world – CBC Online and Entertainment Weekly are reporting that British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, the madman behind the Borat character, has signed a book deal with the Random House/Doubleday imprint Flying Dolphin Press.

In the voice of the “Kazakhstani” “journalist,” Cohen will write a pair of books entitled Borat: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A and Borat: Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The former is billed as a guide to the U.S. for Kazakhstani travellers, and the latter will supposedly introduce Americans to Borat’s version of his home country (with a strong adherence to truth, reality, and decency, if the movie is any indication).

The website for Flying Dolphin says the publisher prints “a tightly focused list of high-quality non-fiction with occasional fiction titles. Great emphasis is placed on the quality of the writing as well as the subject matter which encompasses people and/or ideas central to contemporary culture.” Quillblog can see how the Borat titles will fit right in with that. As long as he can keep himself from talking about his sexytimes with Pamela Anderson.

2 Responses to “Is very nice!”

  1. Rob in Victoria says:

    Tick tick tick… that’s thirteen minutes and counting…

  2. Jonny the Monkey says:

    Jagshemash!

    My name a Jonny the Monkey, #1 most famous celebrity in all Kazakhstan. Good friend Borat still #4 most famous, even after great success movie film…

    Jonny hope to be include in guide for travel in my country, since me be most popular host of Kazakhstan childrens TV show and also star in many pornos film.

    Most recent movie (”Teletubbies Porno” which also star Borat son Bilak) break all box offices record!

    All seven of our theaters sold out quick and disappoint crowds cause four streets riot in capital city. That one more riotings than last year when woman caught sneak into voting booth!

    So thank you for make promotion of this book and please keep both eyeballs and testes satchel crossed that it be great success!

    Chenquieh.

    NOTE: This comment was ‘hand signed’ by Jonny the Monkey to his gypsy assistant Batyr, who then translated and typed those words here.

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