After honing the difficult craft of creating laughs with characters embedded in situations where only he is in a comedy in Da Ali G Show, Borat and Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen turned his skill toward exposing highbrow politicians and hard line conservatives with a coterie of new characters in Who Is America? For his Showtime summer series, Baron Cohen just received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor In A TV Comedy Or Musical, for the six distinctively different characters he disappeared into over seven episodes. Baron Cohen duped numerous high and low level people — including famous politicians like Dick Cheney, Roy Moore, Sarah Palin and O.J. Simpson — and got them and conservative Trump supporters to behave outrageously and reveal racist, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and homophobic attitudes as his characters nudged subjects to scratch below surface civility. Often side-splittingly funny, the segments provided a glimpse into the divisions around America that...
- 12/19/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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