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Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is doing a bit of an about face on Donald Trump, giving the president praise as a man of "brilliance" while noting that the left too quickly dismissed Trump as a "nincompoop." The post Sacha Baron Cohen Says Trump Has ‘Elements of Brilliance’: It’s a Mistake to ‘Dismiss Him as a Nincompoop’ appeared first on Breitbart .

Exclusive: Joshua Loudermilk says suspicions first raised during filming by gun shaped like wearable plastic bottom: ‘You’re gonna put a butt on top of a butt? You can’t run in that’ • This article contains spoilers for Ali G: Who Iz I? Joshua Loudermilk, one of two men apparently discredited by the new Ali G movie Ali G: Who Iz I?, has said that he was in on the joke, but that the film-makers didn’t realise this. Loudermilk, a 54-year-old aspiring actor from North Carolina, has told the Guardian he recognised star Sacha Baron Cohen early in the shoot but continued pretending to be a hard-right Maga sympathiser prepared to defend the US border at all costs. Continue reading...

Sacha Baron Cohen reveals why "Ali G: Who Iz I?" will be his last over-the-top comedy, citing dangerous stunts and severe dehydration on set.

Sacha Baron Cohen is back as his comedic alter-ego Ali G in the mockumentary "Ali G: Who Iz I?," but not every Rotten Tomatoes critic is welcoming his return.

Exclusive: Michael Aboud, whose actions in what he believed to be a documentary are likely to come under considerable scrutiny, has expressed anger at the film-maker • This article contains spoilers for Ali G: Who Iz I? The chair of the El Paso County Republican Party has said he intends to sue Sacha Baron Cohen over footage of the local politician used in new satircal comedy Ali G: Who Iz I? In the film, Michael Aboud is shown taking part in a training programme with another Cohen character, ex-Mossad terrorist expert Col Erran Morad, who instructs Aboud and fellow Maga sympathisers in self-defence techniques including the wearing, over clothes, of protective plastic buttocks. He also schools them in how to fire bullets from the middle of these buttocks by the repeated up and down manipulation of a rubber penis. Continue reading...

Baron Cohen’s live-ammo prankster is back, 20 years on, but has to battle with his own irrelevance in search of big laughs and the approval of a new generation • Exclusive: Republican leader embarrassed by film says he plays to sue Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘A liar and a pervert’ If you liked Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G the first time around, you’ll like this less; if you disliked it, you’ll dislike this more; if you suspected it was racist, you’ll be more emboldened to say so – especially as Baron Cohen has dreamed up a whole new character apparently to pre-empt and mock precisely that objection. Broad and crass as it often is – in fact always is – this Ali G sequel is sometimes funny: the athletic vigour of our hero’s pranking and punking is like the umpteenth Jackass film at which you might find yourself laughing, and Baron Cohen blunders with the semi-intentional force of an XL bully into the issue of whether jokes are still allowed. Unlike the first film, Ali G in Da House from 2002, this is not a full written-through narrative. It is basically another live-ammo series of hoaxes with some spectacular bad taste perpetrated upon the deserving and less deserving; it satirises the shamelessness of anti-woke free speech martyrs, punching up and down with grossout cringe, and the targets include some big names who shouldn’t be revealed here. There are two other subordinate characters: Erran Morad, a sinister Mossad/IDF officer turned US security consultant (who appeared in Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? TV series ), and a new figure: Dr Nira Cain-N’Degrocello, a grotesquely supercilious white liberal who is the self-appointed scourge of cultural appropriation. The dupes are built into a big silly climax fabricated with body doubles and (presumably) covert reshooting. Continue reading...

The actor defended his new film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, saying his aim is to bring people ‘face-to-face with the danger of fanaticism and conspiracy theories’ Sacha Baron Cohen has launched an impassioned defence of satire, the right to offend, and his Ali G character on in a lengthy article for Time magazine . On the eve of the release of his new film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, Baron Cohen described satire as “more important than ever”, adding that “along the way, some people, instead of laughing, wince or worse, take offence.” Continue reading...

Sacha Baron Cohen, who starred in hits like "Borat" and "The Dictator," joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about reviving his character Ali G for his new movie, "Ali G: Who Iz I?"

Sacha Baron Cohen on the power of comedy in a serious time