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Baron Cohen<ref>Baron is not a title of [[nobility]], but the first part of his compound [[surname]], an Anglicization of [[Baruch]]</ref> was born in [[Hammersmith]], [[London, England]]<ref name="birthname" /> to an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] family.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news | last = Mount | first = Harry | title = Kazakhstan launches propaganda campaign against Borat | publisher = Telegraph | date = [[2006-09-15]] | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/15/wborat15.xml | accessdate = 2006-11-06 }}</ref> He is the youngest of three sons of parents Gerald Baron Cohen and Daniella Weiser. His father, originally from [[Wales]]<ref name="wales1">{{cite news | last =| first =| coauthors=| title =Valley G's wicked Welsh rootz| pages=| publisher =BBC News| date =[[2002-03-28]] | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1898402.stm| accessdate =2006-11-22 }}</ref>, owns a menswear shop in [[Piccadilly]]. His paternal grandfather was born in [[Pontypridd]]. His mother,a [[Persian Jew]] <ref>http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1883923,00.html</ref><ref>http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1808442126/bio</ref><ref>http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=7568</ref><ref>http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2877/</ref> who teaches a school of movement, was born in [[Israel]]<ref name="nativeofisrael">{{cite news | last =Heller| first =Aron| coauthors=| title =Israelis dig 'Borat,' jokes in Hebrew| pages=| publisher =The Mercury News| date =[[2006-12-14]] | url =http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/gossip/16239832.htm| accessdate =2006-12-14 }}</ref> and is the daughter of an acclaimed ballet dancer from [[Germany]].<ref name="guardian1">{{cite news | last = Rayner | first = Jay | title = Mutha of invention | publisher = Guardian Unlimited | date = [[2002-02-24]] | url = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,656096,00.html | accessdate = 2006-11-06 }}</ref><ref name="comedygenius">{{cite news | last =Rollings| first =Grant| coauthors=| title =Comedy genius Sacha opens up| pages=| publisher =The Sun| date =[[2006-11-22]] | url =http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006540293,00.html| accessdate =2006-11-22 }}</ref> His brother [[Erran Baron Cohen]], a composer and trumpet player with [[Middle East]]ern influences and a founding member of the British [[electronica]] world-music group Zöhar, lent his talents to the Borat film.
Baron Cohen<ref>Baron is not a title of [[nobility]], but the first part of his compound [[surname]], an Anglicization of [[Baruch]]</ref> was born in [[Hammersmith]], [[London, England]]<ref name="birthname" /> to an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] family.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news | last = Mount | first = Harry | title = Kazakhstan launches propaganda campaign against Borat | publisher = Telegraph | date = [[2006-09-15]] | url = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/15/wborat15.xml | accessdate = 2006-11-06 }}</ref> He is the youngest of three sons of parents Gerald Baron Cohen and Daniella Weiser. His father, originally from [[Wales]]<ref name="wales1">{{cite news | last =| first =| coauthors=| title =Valley G's wicked Welsh rootz| pages=| publisher =BBC News| date =[[2002-03-28]] | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1898402.stm| accessdate =2006-11-22 }}</ref>, owns a menswear shop in [[Piccadilly]]. His paternal grandfather was born in [[Pontypridd]]. His mother, a [[Persian Jew]] <ref>http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1883923,00.html</ref><ref>http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1808442126/bio</ref><ref>http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=7568</ref><ref>http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2877/</ref> who teaches a school of movement, was born in [[Israel]]<ref name="nativeofisrael">{{cite news | last =Heller| first =Aron| coauthors=| title =Israelis dig 'Borat,' jokes in Hebrew| pages=| publisher =The Mercury News| date =[[2006-12-14]] | url =http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/gossip/16239832.htm| accessdate =2006-12-14 }}</ref> and is the daughter of an acclaimed ballet dancer from [[Germany]].<ref name="guardian1">{{cite news | last = Rayner | first = Jay | title = Mutha of invention | publisher = Guardian Unlimited | date = [[2002-02-24]] | url = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,656096,00.html | accessdate = 2006-11-06 }}</ref><ref name="comedygenius">{{cite news | last =Rollings| first =Grant| coauthors=| title =Comedy genius Sacha opens up| pages=| publisher =The Sun| date =[[2006-11-22]] | url =http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006540293,00.html| accessdate =2006-11-22 }}</ref> His brother [[Erran Baron Cohen]], a composer and trumpet player with [[Middle East]]ern influences and a founding member of the British [[electronica]] world-music group Zöhar, lent his talents to the Borat film.


Baron Cohen is the second cousin of [[University of Cambridge]] Professor of [[Developmental psychology|Developmental Psychopathology]] [[Simon Baron-Cohen]]<ref>[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001311.html Empathizing with Simon Baron-Cohen's cousin], August 04, 2004.</ref>.
Baron Cohen is the second cousin of [[University of Cambridge]] Professor of [[Developmental psychology|Developmental Psychopathology]] [[Simon Baron-Cohen]]<ref>[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001311.html Empathizing with Simon Baron-Cohen's cousin], August 04, 2004.</ref>.

Revision as of 03:47, 31 December 2006

This article is about the English comedian. For the figure skater, see Sasha Cohen.
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat at the London premiere of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Leicester Square, London, October 25, 2006
Height6 ft 3 in (1.91m)

Sacha Noam Baron Cohen[1] (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian and actor notable for his successful and controversial comic characters, including Ali G (a journalist from West Staines, England), Borat (a Kazakh reporter) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter).

All three characters are featured in Da Ali G Show, an often unscripted program in which Sacha Baron Cohen conducts interviews as one of his three characters with people who ostensibly believe that the interviews are sincere and legitimate.

His work has been recognized with a BAFTA award, and earned an Emmy nomination as well as a Golden Globe nomination.

Personal life

Family

Baron Cohen[2] was born in Hammersmith, London, England[1] to an Orthodox Jewish family.[3] He is the youngest of three sons of parents Gerald Baron Cohen and Daniella Weiser. His father, originally from Wales[4], owns a menswear shop in Piccadilly. His paternal grandfather was born in Pontypridd. His mother, a Persian Jew [5][6][7][8] who teaches a school of movement, was born in Israel[9] and is the daughter of an acclaimed ballet dancer from Germany.[10][11] His brother Erran Baron Cohen, a composer and trumpet player with Middle Eastern influences and a founding member of the British electronica world-music group Zöhar, lent his talents to the Borat film.

Baron Cohen is the second cousin of University of Cambridge Professor of Developmental Psychopathology Simon Baron-Cohen[12].

Education

The Baron Cohens lived a comfortable middle-class life. Sacha attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a private school in Elstree. He then attended Christ's College at the University of Cambridge where he studied history under Niall Ferguson and wrote his dissertation on Jewish involvement in the American Civil Rights movement, with emphasis on the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi.

At the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, Baron Cohen acted in plays such as Cyrano de Bergerac and Fiddler on the Roof, in which he played Tevye. His long-time collaborator Dan Mazer also attended the University of Cambridge and was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, and although Baron Cohen himself was not a member, he performed in at least one Footlights presentation.

Israel & Judaism

Baron Cohen was a member of the Jewish Socialist Zionist youth movement Habonim Dror[1], and in 1989 he acted in their presentation of Neil Simon's play Biloxi Blues. [2])

He spent a year in Israel at Kibbutz Rosh HaNikra as part of the Habonim Dror Shnat program before going to university.[3]

Baron Cohen keeps kosher and generally observes the Jewish Sabbath, refusing to answer the phone on Shabbat.[4][5][6]

As a jest, while playing the anti-semitic character Borat, Baron Cohen frequently speaks in Hebrew. He also sings the lyrics from an old Hebrew folk song in the Borat film, and identifies his country's greatest scientist, whom he says discovered that a woman's brain is the same size as that of a squirrel, as "Dr. Yarmulke."

Baron Cohen's maternal grandmother, who is ninety-one, lives in Haifa, Israel. [7]

Engagement

Baron Cohen is engaged to Australian actress Isla Fisher, and the pair plan to wed in a traditional Jewish ceremony. Fisher has converted to Judaism, and has received the approval of Baron Cohen's observant Jewish parents.[13]

Career

Early career

In 1995, Channel 4 was planning a replacement for its series The Word, and put out an open call for new television presenters. Baron Cohen sent in a tape of himself in the character of Kristo, a fictional television reporter from Albania (who developed into the Kazakhstani Borat), which caught the attention of a producer. Baron Cohen bided his time by working for a Swindon-based television company, and his first feature film appearance occurred during this period.

Ali G, and rise to celebrity

Cohen as Ali G

After brief stints at prestigious investment banks Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, Baron Cohen went back into acting, appearing during 2-minute sketches as his fashion reporter Bruno on The Paramount Comedy Channel during 1998. He shot to fame when his comic character Ali G, an idiotic wannabe gangsta rapper, started appearing on The Eleven O'Clock Show on Channel 4, which first went to air September 8 1998.

Da Ali G Show began in 2000, and won the BAFTA for best comedy series in the following year. Also in 2000, Ali G appeared in Madonna's music video "Music."

Ali G Indahouse

In 2002, Ali G was the central character in the feature film Ali G Indahouse, in which he is elected to the British Parliament and foils a plot to bulldoze a community centre in his hometown, Staines. His television show was brought to the United States in 2003 (with new episodes set in America) for HBO.

Interviews

Ali G's interviews with famous people (often politicians) gained notoriety partly because the subjects were not privy to the joke that Baron Cohen was playing a comedic character. On at least one occasion, the interviewee was merely told that Ali G had a popular show on MTV that kids watched. The resulting willingness of Ali G's targets to answer his frequently risqué questions often created surprising conversations. Notable interviewees have included astronaut Buzz Aldrin, perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader, writer Gore Vidal, real estate mogul Donald Trump, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, Egyptian millionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, former US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, political commentator Pat Buchanan, Professor Noam Chomsky, soccer player David Beckham, former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali (whom Baron Cohen, in his Ali G character, referred to as 'Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali'), British ex-Conservative MP Neil Hamilton, and journalist Andy Rooney -- this last being one of the few personalities who grew extremely frustrated and abruptly ended the interview, prompting Ali G to ask "is it 'cos I is black?," and to accuse Rooney of being "racialist."

Bruno

Sacha Baron Cohen as 'Brüno'

Baron Cohen's second alter ego is 'Brüno', a gay Austrian fashion show presenter with a Nazi streak, who often lures his subjects into unwittingly making provocative statements and engaging in embarrassing behavior, as well as leading them to contradict themselves, often in the same interview. Brüno asks the subjects to answer 'yes or no' questions with either "Vassap" for yes, or "Ich Don't Think So" for no, or on their opinions '"Ach, ja!," oder, "Nicht, nicht"' (Yes, of course! or Absolutely not!).

Plans are underway for Baron Cohen to bring Bruno to the big screen, and after an intense bidding war that included such Hollywood powerhouses as DreamWorks, Sony, and 20th Century Fox; Universal Pictures paid a reported $42.5 million for the rights to the movie. According to insiders, Baron Cohen himself is getting paid $13 million upfront, and will also receive 15% of the box office take. That means if the film (tentatively titled Bruno) does as well as Borat, Baron Cohen stands to make approximately $30 million. [14]

Borat

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, a feature film with 'Borat' at the center, was screened at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and released in the United Kingdom November 2, 2006, in the United States on November 3, 2006 and Australia November 23rd 2006. The film is about a journey across the United States in an ice cream van, in which the main character is obsessed with the idea of marrying Pamela Anderson. It is said to be an unscripted mockumentary, but includes interviews (with various American citizens) that poke fun at the hobgoblins of American culture, including sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and jingoism.

It debuted at the # 1 spot in the US, taking in an estimated $26.4 million in just 837 theaters averaging $31,600 per theater, the third highest per-theater average of all-time for movies opening wide (500 screens or more) behind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Spider-Man. It easily outdistanced the expected # 1 movie of the weekend Disney's The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, which landed at the # 2 spot, earning an estimated $20 million in 3,458 cinemas. He garnered a Golden Globe nomination, as well as the film itself for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Aside from the comic elements of his characters, Baron Cohen's performances are interpreted by some as reflecting uncomfortable truths about his audience. He juxtaposes his own Jewish lineage with the anti-Semitism of his character Borat. In one sketch from the TV show and not included actually in the film, Borat goes to a bar singing an anti-Semitic song called 'Throw the Jew Down the Well', with many in the bar singing along.[15]

Baron Cohen garnered much attention at the premiere in Toronto when he arrived as Borat on the red carpet in a carriage pulled by six 'peasant' women, while he and his horse rode effortlessly. [8]

Other appearances

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Cohen in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Baron Cohen guest-starred in the finale of the fifth season Curb Your Enthusiasm, with Dustin Hoffman as a guide to Heaven. He also provided the voice of the lemur king, King Julien, in Dreamworks' children's movie Madagascar (2005), and appeared as Will Ferrell's archrival Jean Girard in the 2006 hit Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Baron Cohen has twice presented the MTV Europe Music Awards, first as Ali G on November 8, 2001, in Frankfurt, Germany, and then as Borat on November 3, 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal.

He also delivered the 2004 Class Day address at Harvard University as Ali G, the day before the graduation ceremony.

At the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, Borat introduced Gnarls Barkley's performance of "Crazy," where he made various crude sexist remarks about Jessica Simpson, and Borat's appearance was cut from subsequent rebroadcasts.

Baron Cohen is a supporter of Comic Relief, and (as Ali G) has hosted interviews with, among others, soccer player David Beckham and wife Victoria, for the benefit of the charity.

Baron Cohen will appear alongside Johnny Depp in the film version of the musical Sweeney Todd as Signor Adolfo Pirelli.

Controversies

Baron Cohen has encountered several controversies regarding some of his comic characters.

  • Two residents of Glod, (which means "mud" in Romanian), the Romanian village in which the opening scenes of Borat were filmed, hired US attourney Ed Fagan to sue the makers of Borat for $30 million. They assert the intent of the film was misrepresented to them, and that the poorest members of their village were made to look like "savages".[16] The lawsuit was dismissed in a New York hearing on the grounds that the allegations were too vague to stand up in court.[17] The lawyer plans to refile.
  • In an interview with Neil Hamilton in 2000, Ali G offered Hamilton what was allegedly marijuana, which Hamilton accepted and smoked, creating some minor controversy in the British media.
  • Baron Cohen has had some troubles because of racist or prejudiced comments his characters have made (see Da Ali G Show). HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer has replied to the criticisms: 'Through his alter-egos, he delivers an obvious satire that exposes people's ignorance and prejudice in much the same way All in the Family did years ago.' [9]

Regarding his portrayal as the anti-Semitic Borat, Baron Cohen says the segments are a "dramatic demonstration of how racism feeds on dumb conformity, as much as rabid bigotry," rather than a display of racism by Baron Cohen himself.[10] "Borat essentially works a tool. By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice," Baron Cohen explains. [18] Cohen, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, says he also wishes in particular to expose the role of indifference in that genocide. "When I was in university, there was this major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, who said, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic." [18] Regarding the enthusiastic response to his song "In My Country There is Problem", he says, "Did it reveal that they were anti-Semitic? Perhaps. But maybe it just revealed that they were indifferent to anti-Semitism." [18]

  • The government of Kazakhstan threatened Baron Cohen with legal action after the MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony in Lisbon, and the authority in charge of the country's country-code top-level domain name removed the website that he had created for his character Borat (previously: http://www.borat.kz currently: http://www.borat.tv/) for alleged violation of the law — specifically, registering for the domain under a false name. The New York Times, (among others), has reported that Baron Cohen, (in character as Borat), replied: "I'd like to state that I have no connection with Mr. Cohen" [sic] "and fully support my government decision to sue this Jew."[19] He was, however, recently defended by Dariga Nazarbayeva, a politician and the daughter of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who stated 'We should not be afraid of humour and we shouldn't try to control everything, I think.'[20] The deputy foreign minister of Kazakhstan has recently invited Baron Cohen to visit the country, stating that he could learn that 'women drive cars, wine is made of grapes, and Jews are free to go to synagogues.' [21]
  • Baron Cohen encountered another problem around his Borat character. Two of the three college students who appear in Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, are suing the filmmakers, asserting that they were duped into declaring racial slurs in the film. They say they were given drinks prior to signing a legal agreement consenting to appear in the film, and were told that the film would not be shown in America. On December 11 2006, an L.A. Judge denied the pair a restraining order to remove them from the film. [22]

Performer vs. characters

Baron Cohen has often been confused with the identity of one of his characters. When he posed as Borat to host the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon, the central Hungarian news wire agency MTI reported that the host was 'Borat Sagdiyev'.[23] As most Hungarian newspapers and television networks take MTI as their official source, the misinterpretation of the character spread rapidly in Hungary, with some sources (such as TV2) emphasising that a Kazakhstani news reporter hosted the awards, while others (such as Index.hu) noticed and pointed out the error.[24]

TV, radio, and magazine appearances

Baron Cohen rarely does interviews out of character. However, in 2004, he did the talk show circuit appearing as himself on The Daily Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Howard Stern Show [11], and others. He was also interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered [12]. He also did an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, published in November 2006, that the magazine labeled "his only interview as himself."[18]

Director Larry Charles explains that Baron Cohen generally appears in character partly to "protect the product," by focusing public interest on his characters rather than himself.[13] His other reason, Newsweek claims, is that Baron Cohen is fiercely private: "...according to the UK press, his publicists denied not only that he attended a party for "Borat"'s recent London premiere, but also that a party even occurred." [14]

Awards & nominations

  • 2000 - Nominated BAFTA TV Award, Best Entertainment Performance for: "The 11 O'Clock Show" (1998)
  • 2000 - Won TV Quick Award, TV Personality of the Year for: "Da Ali G Show" (2000)
  • 2001 - Won BAFTA TV Award, Best Comedy (Programme or Series) for: "Da Ali G Show" (2000) (shared)
  • 2001 - Won BAFTA TV Award, Best Comedy Performance for: "Da Ali G Show" (2000)
  • 2003 - Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Non-Fiction Program (Alternative) for: "Da Ali G Show" (2003) (shared)
  • 2003 - Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing for Non-Fiction Programming for: "Da Ali G Show" (2003) (shared)
  • 2004 - Nominated Golden Satellite Award, Best Performance by an Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical for: "Da Ali G Show" (2003)
  • 2005 - Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series for: "Da Ali G Show" (2003) (shared)
  • 2005 - Nominated Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for: "Da Ali G Show" (2003) (shared)
  • 2006 - Won Los Angeles Films Critics Association Award for Best Actor for: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (2006) (tied with Forest Whitaker)
  • 2006 - Won Ronnie Barker Award [25]
  • 2006 - Won San Francisco Films Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (2006)
  • 2006 Winner Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (2006)
  • 2006 - Won Deutscher Comedypreis (german comedy award) for Best International Comedy for: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (2006)
  • 2007 - Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical for Borat and Best Picture Comedy/Musical for Borat as well.
  • 2007 - Nominated for London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actor of the Year for: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (2006)

Miscellaneous

  • Sports Illustrated's November 6 2006 issue contains is a column called "Skater vs. Instigator," which draws various amusing "parallels" between Sacha Baron Cohen and figure skater Sasha Cohen, ranging from the significance of the number 4 to both of them, to interest shown in them by various redheads.
  • He returned to Israel in 2005 to coach the Machon Frisbee team in a play-off match at Kibbutz Revivim. Machon came back to to win after being down 2-8, and Baron Cohen was awarded the kibbutz's highest honour for his efforts.[15]

Filmography

Year Title Role Other notes
2008 Dinner for Schmucks in-development
2008 Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill Curly Oxide scripting
2008 Madagascar 2 Julien voice only, filming
2008 Bruno The Movie Bruno http://www.BrunoMovie.tv / http://www.boratonline.co.uk
2007 Sweeney Todd Signor Adolfo Pirelli confirmed, pre-production
2006 Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Event for Autism Education Borat Sagdiyev TV special
2006 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Borat Sagdiyev Blockbusterings Moviefilm
2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Jean Girard
2005 Curb Your Enthusiasm Larry's Guide #2 TV series, guest star in episode "The End"
2005 Madagascar Julien voice only
2003-2004 Da Ali G Show Ali G / Borat Sagdiyev / Bruno TV series
2003 Spyz Ali G short film
2002 Ali G Indahouse Ali G / Borat Sagdiyev
2000 The Jolly Boys' Last Stand Vinnie
2000 Da Ali G Show Ali G / Borat Sagdiyev TV series
1998-1999 The 11 O'Clock Show Ali G TV series
1998 Live from the Lighthouse Ali G TV special
1996 Punch short film
1995 Jack and Jeremy's Police 4 Various TV special

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "COHEN, Sacha Baron". BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved 2006-11-06. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ Baron is not a title of nobility, but the first part of his compound surname, an Anglicization of Baruch
  3. ^ Mount, Harry (2006-09-15). "Kazakhstan launches propaganda campaign against Borat". Telegraph. Retrieved 2006-11-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Valley G's wicked Welsh rootz". BBC News. 2002-03-28. Retrieved 2006-11-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1883923,00.html
  6. ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1808442126/bio
  7. ^ http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=7568
  8. ^ http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2877/
  9. ^ Heller, Aron (2006-12-14). "Israelis dig 'Borat,' jokes in Hebrew". The Mercury News. Retrieved 2006-12-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  10. ^ Rayner, Jay (2002-02-24). "Mutha of invention". Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 2006-11-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Rollings, Grant (2006-11-22). "Comedy genius Sacha opens up". The Sun. Retrieved 2006-11-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  12. ^ Empathizing with Simon Baron-Cohen's cousin, August 04, 2004.
  13. ^ http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-9474353-details/%27I+is+marrying+me+Julie%27/article.do
  14. ^ "Borat is Rich...NOT". Forbes. 2006-11-13. Retrieved 2006-11-21. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ Borat: Throw The Jew Down The Well
  16. ^ "Borat film 'tricked' poor village actors", Daily Mail, November 11, 2006.
  17. ^ "New York judge questions viability of villagers' 'Borat' lawsuit" IHT, December 5, 2006
  18. ^ a b c d Strauss, Neil. "Sacha Baron Cohen - The Real Borat - Finally Speaks". Rolling Stone Magazine.
  19. ^ "British comic responds to legal threat against 'Borat'", CBC, Friday, Nov. 25, 2005.
  20. ^ "Daughter of Kazakhstan's president defends Borat", CBC, Friday, April 21, 2006.
  21. ^ "Kazakh invite for Borat creator", BBC News, Thursday, October 19, 2006.
  22. ^ "L.A. judge sides with 'Borat' against frat boys" Dec 11 2006, Reuters
  23. ^ MTI reporting from MTV Europe Music Awards
  24. ^ Index.hu article on the reporting error
  25. ^ "Sacha Leaves Borat Behind Hello Magazine, 2006/12/14


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