17.01.2007, 11:35 3042

British comedian Sasha Cohen named best comedy actor

Almaty. January 17. Kazakhstan Today - The British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen has been named the best comedy actor of the year, the agency reports referring to foreign mass media.

Sasha Cohen became the holder of the premium in the field of cinema and TV the Gold Globe for the role in the film: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The award ceremony of the second prestigious after Oscar premium took place in the hotel Beverli Hilton in Los Angeles.

The character of Cohen' s comedy Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - the Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev comes to the USA to make the report on the country. There he falls in love with a known actress and makes all the efforts to marry her.

The image of the Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev earlier, after presentation of MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon (Portugal), caused controversial reaction in Kazakhstan as it represented the country in the negative light. At first the representatives of the Kazakhstan Ministry of Foreign Affairs were indignant, in particular, the Ambassador to the Great Britain Yerlan Idrisov named Cohen' s character "a pig of a man". Later the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev during his visit to London called to treat the British comedian performance with humor.

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