When David Nevins called Sacha Baron Cohen “the premier provocateur of our time” in announcing the new Who Is America? series, the Showtime boss was certainly honest to a fault. Full of mild shock, zero awe and a lot of recycled scenarios, the flabby, seven-episode dupe-the-dimwits endeavor from the once blighting satirist certainly provokes a great inducement to change the cable channel.
Or to paraphrase a true great provocateur, Johnny Rotten: Boring, Sasha, boring
Debuting tonight on streaming, online, and On Demand – and on Showtime proper tomorrow at 7 Pm Pt – the spoof series starts off with a quickly irritated Sen. Bernie Sanders being mildly grilled by a prosthetically enhanced Cohen, who is not that well-disguised as motorized scooter-bound, Alex Jones wannabe Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr. of Truthbrary.org.
Though Ali G was genius and Borat was brilliant, the subsequent offerings leading to Who Is America? intimate that the decline and...
Or to paraphrase a true great provocateur, Johnny Rotten: Boring, Sasha, boring
Debuting tonight on streaming, online, and On Demand – and on Showtime proper tomorrow at 7 Pm Pt – the spoof series starts off with a quickly irritated Sen. Bernie Sanders being mildly grilled by a prosthetically enhanced Cohen, who is not that well-disguised as motorized scooter-bound, Alex Jones wannabe Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr. of Truthbrary.org.
Though Ali G was genius and Borat was brilliant, the subsequent offerings leading to Who Is America? intimate that the decline and...
- 7/15/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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