anybody who can get people laughing across continents, in these troubled times especially, will get me to buy a movie ticket.
I don't get the comparison to Kaufman, though, because Kaufman was respected outside the entertainment field, through his contributions to the sport of inter-gender wrestling.
Borat, however, has painted himself into a corner. Where does he go from here? He won't be able to fool people any longer to make the fake documentaries. I predict that he degrades into a "Mr. Bean" type character, reduced to making scripted movies in the future.