Who Is America? - New Sacha Baron Cohen Series

[Debaser]

Sacha Baron Cohen has been working on a new series. Starts next Monday on Channel 4.



https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/...

[Debaser]

He disguised himself as a disabled war veteran to dupe Sarah Palin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-4478...


Getting Dick Cheney to sign a Waterboard Kit sounds rather amusing!

Edited by Debaser on Wednesday 11th July 09:05

[anonymous-user]

Ali G was great when it first started, I also liked borat, but not really the movies.

Hopefully enough time has passed for a new character to succeed.

[Some Gump]

The amount of social media butthurt implies that he's managed it quite well. We will see!

[soad]

El stovey said:

Ali G was great when it first started, I also liked borat, but not really the movies.

Hopefully enough time has passed for a new character to succeed.

[Debaser]

One of his characters, Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., has demanded an apology from Sarah Palin.

I'm really looking forward to this!

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/...

[Camelot1971]

I really don't understand why humiliating other people is funny, regardless of whether they "deserve it" or not.

[SpeedBash]

First look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk

[Shuvi McTupya]

Bloody hell, and these are the people that run the show..

Amazing!

[anonymous-user]

Camelot1971 said:

I really don't understand why humiliating other people is funny, regardless of whether they "deserve it" or not.

Any humiliation is self-inflicted.

[anonymous-user]

Roman Rhodes said:

Camelot1971 said:

I really don't understand why humiliating other people is funny, regardless of whether they "deserve it" or not.

Any humiliation is self-inflicted.

I think in most, if not all Ali g or borat interviews, it wasn’t about humiliating the person being interviewed at all.

I don’t remember (m)any where the joke was on the interviewer, it was humorous because of the situation.


I thought all the people being interviewed came out of it pretty well. Perhaps the borat in America films were different but I can’t remember.

[soad]

Old episodes (Da Ali G Box Sets) are available on All 4...

[kowalski655]

That YT clip is fking hilarious!!!
Hopefully as good as tge rest of his stuff

[Gameface]

Cohen shouldn't mock the afflicted.

[anonymous-user]

I take it back, that clip is clearly taking the piss out of the NRA bloke.

[LeadFarmer]

I love all of his characters, they were incredibly funny until they became known world wide and then they had to be killed off. Really looking forward to this new series.

[AnotherClarkey]

I think his next project will be to remain unmurdered by some domestic terrorist.

[Driver101]

ash73 said:

SpeedBash said:

First look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk

The uzicorn

I liked the fat old guy reading out his bit with all the music acts. I can't believe people still fall for it. It is too obvious.

Although the makeup is different SBC doesn't really change the character much. The humour is very much Borat and Bruno.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

SpeedBash said:

First look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk

OK...I know they're Americans and probably stupid...but they must be just going along with the joke surely - I mean nobody is that stupid, right?

[Halb]

El stovey said:

Ali G was great when it first started, I also liked borat, but not really the movies.

Hopefully enough time has passed for a new character to succeed.

it's just the same format, over and over and over.

ALi G was funny when I was a student, but one trick gets tiresome after a while