March 01, 2007

Slander, Booyakasha!

One of the last known humans to have not yet sued Sacha Baron Cohen has done just that, as a young woman named Heddi Cundle is taking the comedian to court for defamation. Cohen and Cundle knew each other as kids, and when Cohen grew up to become Ali G, he used her name in a sketch on "Da Ali G Show." In the bit, the hip-hop journalist was interviewing Gore Vidal, when he said:

Ain't it better sometimes, to get rid of the whole thing rather than amend [the Constitution] cos like me used to go out with this bitch called Heddi Cundle, and she used to always trying amend herself. Y'know, get her hair done in highlights, get like tattoo done on her batty crease, y'know have the whole thing shaved—very nice but it didn't make any more difference. She was still a minger, and so, y'know, me had enough, and once me got her pregnant me said, "Alright, laters, that is it." Ain't it the same with the Constitution?
Yea, I can see how she may have a problem with that.

When I was in my own comedy troupe in college, we once ran into a similar problem. My senior year, some of my fellow members had written a sketch about a stereotypical, princess-y, gold-digging Jewish Brandeis girl, and they gave her the name "Sarah Glickstein." The people who wrote it were freshmen and seemingly pulled the name out of thin air, but I had to let them know that there had in fact been a Brandeis girl, who had graduated the year before, whose name really was Sarah Glickstein, and that they'd better change it.

(From what I remember, the real Sarah Glickstein was actually pretty cool and exhibited none of the stereotypes of her fictional namesake. So Sarah, if you self-googled and are reading this, I did you a previously undisclosed solid back in '99.)

Posted by Stephen Silver at March 1, 2007 05:03 PM
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dude! is this your first boris-related post?

Posted by: LilB at March 2, 2007 11:42 PM

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