Get a Life

Or, more properly, get a sense of humor:

The creators of the hit film "Borat" were sued again on Tuesday, this time by a driving instructor seen in the comedy admonishing the fake Kazakh reporter for yelling insults at other drivers...

...Psenicska said he was paid $500 in cash to give Borat a driving lesson. He described the experience as "surreal," saying Cohen drove erratically down residential streets, drank alcohol and yelled to a female pedestrian he would pay her $10 for "sexy time."

The lawsuit seeks $400,000 in actual damages and additional punitive damages for misleading Psenicska and for emotional harm he continues to suffer. Psenicska said if he had known the true nature of the film, he never would have participated.

The only way to comprehend Psenicska's sour grapes lawsuit is that he wants to be compensated at something higher than a SAG dayplayer rate, and $500 is clearly way too low. Maybe he thinks he should get points on the picture, which has grossed something like $330 million in theatrical and DVD sales. Maybe it's not enough for him that he's got a great-to-tell-the-grandchildren role in an iconic cultural movie. Maybe he's just hoping for some out of court settlement dough, bigger presents for the family at Xmas.

I'm not sure if any of the other Borat lawsuits have paid off at all, and at least one was thrown out of court. There's the society Alabamans embarrassed at the racism Sacha Baron Cohen revealed with his highwire act. There's the two drunken fratboys who also revealed their, yep, racism. There's the nation of Kazakhstan.

Bonafide pranksters are only successful when their prank reveals something otherwise hidden or let pass unquestioned by society. Alan Abel is the demigod of this, with a lifetime of socially revealing pranks on his resume. But he never had a simple performance as extended as Cohen's -- or, for that matter, Stephen Colbert's. With Colbert, by now, everyone knows it's a put on, but his genius is doing it night-after-night, to the point where you're double-thinking his performance in the interviews.

Cohen's blatant success is surely the reason why he's getting the record number of lawsuits.

But to everyone trying to get paid or even clear this self-sullied names, the comedian took his final bow, the curtain has closed and the audience has left the theater.

Get a life.