So Borat expanded to more than 3,000 screens this past week, and in doing so pulled in another $29 million, up from a 837-theater/1,100-screen, $26.5 million bow last week, and good for the top spot at the box office. Thank goodness for the timing in one respect, releasing after Halloween. But it struck me last night upon exiting a restaurant that Borat will be — if not already — the new Austin Powers, by which I mean a funny character being co-opted by unfunny people for unfunny impressions. It already makes me kind of queasy, the mangled idioms, malapropisms and awkward Jew-baiting that middle-aged, WASPy bankers and insurance company middle-managers not savvy enough to get the original joke will be peddling. On the plus side, you know Steve Carrell’s Michael Scott on The Office will be perfecting an imitation… so we have that going for us, which is nice.