He was Borat before Borat, a household name in the U.S. in the 1980s and one of Ronald Reagan’s favorite comedians. Then the Soviet Union collapsed and his career crumbled. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/jan/22/-sp-can-king-cold-war-comedy-make-comeback-yakob-smirnoff