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Nothing new* in the Telegraph article about Borat, except this. Sascha Baron Cohen was a member of Footlights, the drama club at Cambridge. The link will take you to the complete list of members, but the gods of British comedy were all there, not to mention they met at Footlights and began their brillant careers together there: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, the Monty Pythoners, Douglas Adams, Emma Thompson.

The Wikkipedia entry on Cohen claims:

Contrary to popular myth, Sacha Baron Cohen never appeared in a Cambridge Footlights Review.

However, the Footlights website lists him in their blurb as one of their famous alumnae. However apparently he wasn’t involved in the summer shows. Look at the deep investigative reporting KZBlog is willing to go to to get to the heart of controversial issues in Kazakhstan today.

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* Sean Roberts has already covered the way it’s being spun as if Nazarbayev and Bush are meeting specifically to discuss Borat, which I thought was the funnest development thus far