Kazakhistani journalist BORAT IS DEAD at the young age of 36-years-old.  He was tragically killed by his creator Sacha Baron Cohen today in London.

Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he’s retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.

“When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them, so admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing,” the 36-year-old actor-comedian says in the British newspaper’s Friday edition.

“It is like saying goodbye to a loved one. It is hard, and the problem with success, although it’s fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I `get’ with Borat again, so it’s a kind of self-defeating form, really.”

This is very saddening to happen to such a budding and fine journalist.  I think a couple more years in America and he could have taken over for Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News (ok so he could have done that when he hopped off the boat and got better ratings than Katie).

No word yet if Pamela Anderson will be attending the funeral.

Remembering Borat 1971-2007