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Satirising anti-Semitism

Are some subjects too absurd to be made fun of?

1 March 2014

9:00 AM

1 March 2014

9:00 AM

The scene: a redneck bar in Tuscon, Arizona. Sacha Baron Cohen, under the pseudonym of ‘Arote and his Cowboy Astana Band from Kazakhstan’, takes to the stage to perform a country and western song about ‘the problems in my country’. The first verse mentions the poor roads, with Baron Cohen singing an odd refrain: ‘throw the transport down the well.’

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