Sacha Baron Cohen
It was always going to be tough for Sacha Baron Cohen's new show to live up to the advance hype and for much of the first episode it didn't. When it didn't it was still fun in a Dom Joly/Dennis Pennis way, and when it was good it was up there with the best of Brass Eye. Albeit maybe a little too close stylistically to Brass Eye. Though maybe this is aimed more at American viewers, who may not be that familiar with Chris Morris.
Sacha Baron Cohen has already caused outrage before his new series Who Is America? has even been aired.
According to reports one of the people he has pranked for the show is politician Sarah Palin. Baron Cohen is reported to have posed as a wheelchair-using military veteran when he interviewd her.
Sacha Baron Cohen's new Showtime show is coming to Channel 4. Famous for creating a roster of iconic moments and incendiary characters, Baron Cohen returns to series television for the first time in more than a decade, writing and directing WHO IS AMERICA?
The work of the creator of Ali G is to be the subject of an in-depth study in Spring, 2015. A Symposium on the Comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen will take place on March 11 next year at Brunel University in Uxbridge, Middlesex.
Kurt Braunohler usually comes to the UK with queen of kookery Kristen Schaal. This time round he is doing solo shows. I hope he will still be working with Schaal though, as some of their two-handers have felt really special and unlike any other double acts I've ever seen. By contrast this was a gig that was never dull and had penty of laughs, but somehow lacked the USP of the twosome's bizarro banter.
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