Holy crap!

I mentioned to Astro-Girl the other day, "It's just too bad. Ricky Bobby comes out, and everyone's talking about it. Then Borat comes along and blows off everyone's doors, and--have you noticed?--nobody's been talking about Ricky Bobby lately."

Wait: does anyone know that Frenchy the stock-car driver, aka Jean Girard, is played by none other than Sasha Baron Cohen?

When Talladega Nights first came out, Jim Emerson, filling in for the ill Roger Ebert, wrote this. Money quote:

And the way Sacha Baron Cohen, as Ricky Bobby's gay French nemesis Jean Girard, pronounces his name (something like "Yrikee Bubbee" may be the closest print equivalent) is, remarkably, funny every single time. If Cohen's Borat movie ("Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan") is anywhere near as amusing as this one, a movie star is born. Er, "boorn."

He says it there, it comes out here.

Spooky, bro.