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It was only a matter of time before Sacha Baron Cohen would have to retire his style of guerrilla filmmaking. After the success of 2006's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and the relative non-success of ...  

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was so good at keeping his identity secret that nobody ever recognised him outside of his Ali G or Borat costumes, he revealed today. Speaking in his first ever broadcast interview as himself, the 40-year-old funnyman told how he ...  

SACHA Baron Cohen was banned from shooting scenes for his new film The Dictator at the United Nations because it might upset real-life despots, the comic has claimed.  

Of course, the show also gave us Borat and Bruno, and both characters were hilarious. Then came the Borat movie in 2006, which became the hottest thing in comedy since sliced bread primarily for its sheer outrageousness, and Cohen's willingness ...  

And that's saying plenty. But audiences are already tiring of Sacha Baron Cohen's signature shtick, if the anemic box office results from his new comedy, "The Dictator," are any indication. American audiences were mostly unfamiliar with Baron ...  

There isn't much actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen won't do for a laugh. Baron Cohen has splashed his face with toilet water as Borat, the clueless TV reporter from Kazakhstan, and taken his clothes off in front of Congressman Ron Paul as Bruno ...  

The stand-up comedian and star of In Living Color was recently nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Sporting Life in the opera Porgy and Bess. Also, actor and writer Sacha Baron Cohen on Borat, Bruno, Ali G., and his latest character, The Dictator.  

Sacha Baron Cohen is not a well-known man his alter egos on the other hand - Ali G Borat and most recently Admiral General Hafez Aladeen - are very well-known the world over Following the release of his latest picture The DICtator Baron Cohen has all...  

Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat deserves to be bracketed with Chaplin's masterpiece; The Dictator doesn'tOn the face of it, Sacha Baron Cohen might seem to be hoeing the same row this time round but by other means. Once more, a funny foreigner with unpalatable attitudes is let loose on the Land of the Free. Like Borat and Brüno before him, Aladeen parades bigotry to risque but comic effect. You might have thought that the shift from real-world...  

Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian famous for pranking unsuspecting Americans in the over-the-top mockumentaries “Brüno” and “Borat,” makes a much more conventional comedy with “The Dictator,” a satiric rip about a Middle Eastern...  

Comic provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen returns to theaters this week with "The Dictator," which, judging from the latest trailer, looks to blend the poke-in-the-eye performance art of "Borat" and "Bruno" with more traditional, scripted comedy. We know it will ...  

Sacha Baron Cohen has been forced to drop out of Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming Western Django Unchained, according to reports. The Ali G and Borat creator was set to take on his first role for the Pulp Fiction director in the revenge thriller but ...  

Sacha Baron Cohen, star of hit movies Borat and Bruno, and TV series Da Ali G Show, has stepped out of character and given a rare interview as himself to promote his latest comedy The Dictator. At the Cannes Film Festival, the actor abandoned ...  

Rating: **1/2 by Matt Brunson THE DICTATOR **1/2 DIRECTED BY Larry Charles STARS Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris Love it or hate it, Borat, the 2006 mockumentary that turned Sacha Baron Cohen from a minor cult figure into a bona fide star, pushed the envelope in new and unexpected ways.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

Sacha Baron Cohen has given a rare interview as himself, rather than in the guise of one of the famous characters he has created such as Ali G or Borat. He told the BBC he had previously protected his work by not giving interviews for fear of ...