Sacha Baron Cohen

Justin Timberlake Lands Role of His Lifetime: Yogi's Sidekick Boo Boo [Trade Round Up]

source: Gawker

• Moving on from his Ali G stable of characters, Sacha Baron Cohen has formed a production company to develop new material. Four by Two Films has already signed its first deal to shoot Accidentes for Universal, based on the ambulance chasing attorney famed in LA for his side-of-the-bus ads....

Published Thu, Nov 5

Baron Cohen faces threats over Bruno

source: RTE.ie

Sacha Baron Cohen has been threatened by a militant Palestinian group angered at its portrayal in his latest movie Bruno.

Published Wed, Jul 29

The Kings Of Squirm Inducing Comedy

source: Film School Rejects

1. Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat, Ali G, Bruno Make no mistake, Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t top of this list just because Bruno came out last week. He’s top because he gives awkward comedy captured with real people. So he not only puts his shame on the line, instead possibly his life. Take for example Brun...

Published Fri, Jul 17

Would Brüno Be Possible Without Borat?

source: Gawker

Both characters were from Baron Cohen's wildly funny Da Ali G Show, so either could have been made into a movie at any time. But we're just not sure that Brüno would be feasible as a market-ready comedy character had Borat not come and paved the pseudo-real, envelope-pushing path for him. Bor...

Published Fri, Jul 10

'Bruno' Bestows His Top Ten Upon America

source: Gawker

One last thing re: Bruno/Sacha Baron Cohen. We were chatting with a show business "insider" earlier today who offered an interesting tidbit as to why Cohen appeared on Letterman out of character earlier in the week—Word is that Bruno isn't tracking well in middle America where "viewers m...

Published Thu, Jul 9

Perez Hilton, Brüno, And "The Gay-Panic Offense"

source: Jezebel

Slate's Dennis Lim basically comes down on the pro-Brüno side. He writes that Hollywood has been offering up "square-jawed," humorless portrayals of gays for so long that it's refreshing and even subversive for Baron Cohen to portray a funny, no-holds-barred "sissy" — and an oversexed...

Published Thu, Jul 9

Review: Bruno

source: Film School Rejects

Sacha Baron Cohen is, without doubt, a comedian with balls. In Bruno, his latest feature-length adaptation of one of his three characters from The Ali G Show, the Peter Sellers of the 21st century puts himself in such absurd and sometimes unbelievably real situations that result in him, a...

Published Thu, Jul 9

Why Wasn't Sacha Baron Cohen In Character on Letterman Last Night?

source: Gawker

Though he'd previously done his shtick for Conan O'Brien and arrived at the show as Bruno, Cohen trotted out to the couches as himself. Maybe the story he told—about meeting a real-life terrorist while preening as the outrageously gay Austrian fashion reporter Bruno—was just too good an...

Published Wed, Jul 8