Los Angeles (AFP)

Video-on-demand platform Amazon Prime has bought a sequel to British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's hit comedy "Borat" and is expected to air it ahead of the November 3 presidential election, AFP has learned. Tuesday from a source close to the agreement.

In 2006, the highly politically incorrect film, the full title of which is "Borat, Cultural Lessons on America to Benefit Glorious Nation Kazakhstan", caused a stir and pocketed more than $ 260 million.

He had even been selected for the Oscars in the category of best screenplay.

In this comedy mixing schoolboy humor below the belt and vitriolic criticism of American society, Sacha Baron Cohen pretended to be Borat, a Kazakh journalist, stupid and backward but a great admirer of the United States, who undertook to shoot a documentary on this country.

A journey as a pretext for incredible encounters with elected officials, students or very real cowboys, whose false journalist strove, without their knowledge, to bring out the faults and prejudices by playing his role of coarse and ignorant foreigner.

The sequel to "Borat" was shot this summer with a small crew as soon as restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic were relaxed in the United States and elsewhere, indicates the specialist site Deadline.

Since Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen has made a specialty of trapping anonymous or celebrities by endorsing different characters, from the alleged rapper Ali G through the Austrian homosexual host Brüno.

In 2018, he took up this concept in a scandalous show, "Who is America?"

("Who is America?") In which he embarrassed various political figures.

He had thus provoked the resignation of an elected representative of Georgia whom he had trapped by posing as an Israeli expert in the fight against terrorism, pushing him to utter racist insults and to bare buttocks to intimidate a hostage taker .

Sarah Palin, an unsuccessful candidate for the American vice-presidency and frequent media target, had also been the victim of his deceptions and had denounced the humor "evil and perverse" of the British comedian.

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of the main roles in the movie "The Chicago Seven", which hits Netflix in October.

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