Borat Margaret Sagdiyev

### Appears in

Da Ali G Show (1997 - 2004)Ali G INDAHOUSE (2004)Borat's Television Programme (2004)Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazahkstan (2006)Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)The Rise and Fall of Gay Borat (2020)

### Debut

Da Ali G Show (2000 - 2004)

**Borat Margaret Sagdiyev i**s a Kazakh journalist and is the main protagonist of the documentary *Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2006) and its sequel *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2020).

## Biography and General Information

Borat was born and raised in the village of Kuzcek, Kazakh SSR to Maryam Tulyakbay and Boltok the Rapist (who is also stated to be his grandfather, uncle and former father-in-law until the demise of Oksana); he says his mother gave birth to him when she was nine years old. She is shown as a short old lady (revealed to be forty-three years old) in his 2006 film, where he gives the viewer a guided tour of his hometown. He has a (well-endowed) thirteen-year-old son named Hooeylewis, twelve-year-old twin boys named Bilak and Biram, and seventeen grandchildren. He has a sister, Natalya, whom at different times he has described as the "number four prostitute in the whole of Kazakhstan"; another sister who appears to be a very young teenage girl is shown at the beginning of *Borat's Guide to Britain*. It has been revealed in an interview with a general practitioner that he caught syphilis from one of his sisters during a Kazakh folk festival. He also has a younger brother, Bilo, who is intellectually disabled and kept locked in a cage. Bilo was not always disabled and was shown as an average early teenage boy in *Borat's Guide to Britain*; at some point Bilo suffered brain damage during an exorcism, when another brother of Borat's tried to release a demon from Bilo through the traditional Kazakh folk remedy of opening the skull and sticking the tooth of a red-haired woman in the brain.

Borat's neighbours are Nursultan Tulyakbay (whom Borat considers "a pain in my assholes") and Dr. Yamak, a scientist who works for the Kazakh government and claims to have proven that women have "brain the size of squirrel". In Borat's Guide to Britain, Borat and Yamak settle a dispute in the traditional Kazakh "civilised way" by beating each other's genitals with a leather glove until one gives in.

It is unknown how many times Borat has been married; he has had at least five wives, in Borat's Guide to Britain he admits to being a bigamist and has three additional lovers (two of whom he describes as his "mistress" and his "girlfriend" respectively, and the third he "has to pay money for"). One of his wives (Ludmilla) is said to have been shot by a hunter when he mistook her for a bear as she ploughed the fields. His former wife, Oksana (who was also his half-sister as they had the same biological father), is reported in the Borat film to have been attacked, "violated" and "broken" by a bear while taking his brother Bilo for a walk in the forest. Borat is not saddened by the tragedy; he thanks the man who brings him this "good news" by giving him a high five and celebrates his new-found freedom by pursuing Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and eventually reunites with and marries Luenell, an African-American prostitute he met whilst filming his documentary. In the sequel, Luenell is nowhere to be seen and can be assumed to have either left Borat or died in the fourteen years since the first film. Borat goes on to ask a professional babysitter late in the film to be his "second black wife", to which she declines.

According to various in-character interviews with Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat attended Astana University, where he studied English, journalism and plague research. He created five new plagues which "killed over five million goats in Uzbekistan."Prior to his plague research, Borat worked as an ice maker, gypsy catcher, animal puller (one who produces semen from animals) and computer maintenance engineer (specifically, removing dead birds which had nested in the vents in the computer's casing).He now works as a journalist and announcer on Kazakh television. This job "helps Borat and other Kazakhs express themselves in ways they otherwise would not have been able to do."

Borat usually speaks English during his reports; his alleged Kazakh language (or possibly intended to be Russian) during some scenes is in fact a mix of Hebrew and Polish. He usually introduces himself with the term "Jagshemash" ("Jak się masz?", meaning "How are you?" in Polish) and ends reports with "Chenqui" ("Dziękuję", meaning "Thank you" in Polish). He often uses the phrase "Wa wa wee wa", an expression for wow, derived from a skit by Dov Glickman on the popular comedy Zehu Ze! show and is often heard in Israel. Don't tell him his catchphrase is from a jew, he would be heartbroken.

Although nominally pagan most of his life in a primarily Muslim (albeit secular) country, sometimes remarking that he "follow[s] the hawk", during his trip to America he attends a Pentecostal church service and later converts his entire village to Christianity, Borat's version of which involves crucifying Jews. Borat is a keen admirer of Joseph Stalin, and claims that both he and Stalin are strong men with powerful "chrum" (genitals). He is strongly opposed to women's rights and was quite aghast upon learning that in Britain and America women can vote while horses cannot. He frequently comments that allowing women to vote is like allowing "a monkey to drive a car". In his spare time, he enjoys playing ping pong, sunbathing while clad in a lime-green "mankini", disco dancing, spitting, sitting on comfortable chairs, shooting dogs, and taking pictures of women while they "make a toilet". He also enjoys hunting Jews in his homeland. He is fond of "sexy time", particularly "mouth-party" and "hand-party". Borat also states that he "very much like Korki Butchek" (a fictional Kazakh musician). However, he has great respect for Muslims, even criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump on his immigration policies regarding majority Muslim countries.

## Fate

Some time before the events of The Rise and Fall of Gay Borat, Sagdiyev was to take an M.R.I. scan. As he was getting older and beginning to forget he was tolerable to Jewish people, he swallowed all of the coins in his wallet to prevent the doctors from stealing from him, believing them to be Jewish. The coins in Borat's stomach caused the scan to malfunction, exploding the machine. Borat died from the explosion.