He portrays Oliver Hardy. We had no idea you were an American actor. As it happens, Davitian, who always yearned for the life of a Hollywood actor, grew up in East L. And then he made a disastrous business foray into Mexico, securing a waste management contract for a suburb of Mexico City.

Ken Davitian tricked the trickster. When the veteran character actor tried out for the role of television producer Azamat in the outrageous mockumentary, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit of Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," he pretended to be an immigrant speaking in a foreign accent throughout his audition. He handed the filmmakers a crumpled 8-by photograph of himself that he had folded and placed in his pocket, something a professional actor would never do but perfect for a guy trying to pass himself off as a clueless foreigner. In the process, he fooled "Borat" actor and creator Sacha Baron Cohen. Please give me a call if you like what I did. The audition handed Davitian the breakthrough role of his career. It didn't hurt that Davitian was willing to wrestle naked with Cohen in a hilarious and sometimes gross hotel room scene, one of the most uproarious parts of the box-office smash.

While teaching American humor to a gregarious and absurdly out-of-touch foreign journalist, Pat Haggerty realized something was off — who WAS this guy? Haggerty, a public speaking coach from Washington, D. Last year, Haggerty agreed to be filmed for what he thought was a benign documentary on his client's journey across America.

The satirical film, entitled "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan ," documented Borat's trek across America, the colorful people he meets during his travels, and his burning desire to meet "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson. Played by British actor Sacha Baron Cohen , who first introduced the character on his television series, "Da Ali G Show," Borat's anti-Semitic and sexist comments often tested his subjects' patience and exposed their prejudices. That was one of the amazing things about Borat: He had an uncanny way of getting people to talk about things that we we weren't hearing in public. All interviews have been condensed and combined for space and clarity.