Borat returns to America, quarantines with Trumpers in the trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s sequel

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat, much like Dave Chappelle’s “I’m Rick James, bitch!” was undone slightly by a populace perhaps too taken with its lead character’s funny voice. Baron Cohen’s sweeping satire of American culture—the original film touched on everything from post-9/11 xenophobia to frat culture to celebrity worship—was, in the years following its release, reduced to grating cries of “My wife!” and “Very nice!” As Simpsons writer George Meyer said upon watching it for the first time, “I feel like someone just played me Sgt. Pepper’s for the first time.”

It was something of a shock, then, when leaked photos suggested Baron Cohen was resurrecting the character, shooting footage in the same under-the-radar manner with which he shot 2018’s Who Is America? All of this was confirmed recently when Deadline reported that Baron Cohen was indeed making a Borat sequel and that Amazon Prime had already scooped up the rights. Today the streamer dropped the first trailer for the sequel, which is officially called Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery Of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan.