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Sacha Baron Cohen
Born
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen

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

All three characters are featured in Da Ali G Show, a programme in which Cohen conducts interviews while dressed as one of his three characters. His interviewees believe that the ostensible interviews are sincere and legitimate.

His work has been recognized with several Emmy nominations, an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, a BAFTA award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in the feature film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Biography

Family

Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, London, England[1] to an Orthodox Jewish family.[2] "Baron" is not a title of nobility but the Jewish name "Baruch" adapted to the English language. Baron Cohen's cousin, British psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, uses a slightly different form. He is the youngest of three sons of parents Gerald Baron Cohen and Daniella Weiser. His father, originally from Wales,[3] owns a menswear shop in Piccadilly. His paternal grandfather was born in Pontypridd. His mother, who teaches a school of movement, was born in Israel.[4] His maternal grandmother, who now lives in Haifa, Israel,[5] was an acclaimed ballet dancer from Germany.[6][7][8] 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 with the song "O Kazakhstan" and others.

Education

The Baron Cohens enjoyed a comfortable standard of living. Sacha attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a private school in Elstree. The same school was also attended by fellow Jewish comedians Matt Lucas and David Baddiel. He also attended St Columba's College in St Albans. He then attended Christ's College at the University of Cambridge where he studied history under Niall Ferguson and wrote his thesis 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.[9]

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 as well as other shows (including singing the part of Guy Fawkes in the musical Gunpowder, Treason and Plot).

Israel and Judaism

Baron Cohen first acted in theatrical productions featuring the youth movement Habonim Dror.[10]

He spent a year in Israel at Kibbutz Rosh HaNikra as part of the Shnat Habonim Dror, before matriculating to university.[11] According to Baron Cohen, "I wouldn't say that I am a religious Jew, but I'm still proud to be Jewish."[12]. However, he keeps kosher and generally observes the Jewish Sabbath, refusing to answer the phone on Shabbat.[5][13][14]

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

Engagement

Baron Cohen is engaged to Australian actress Isla Fisher, and the pair plan to wed in a traditional Jewish ceremony. After several years of study, Fisher has converted to Judaism, and has received the approval of Baron Cohen's observant Jewish parents. [9] Currently, Isla is pregnant with the couple's first child. [10]

Career

Early career

In the early 1990s Baron Cohen was hosting a weekly program on Windsor cable television's local broadcasts alongside Carol Kirkwood, who has become the BBC anchor for weather broadcasts. He was fired by Windsor TV for broadcasting a lewd presentation for Valentines day. In 1995, Channel 4 was planning a replacement for its series The Word, and disseminated 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; during this period he made his first feature film appearance.

Ali G character

Baron Cohen as Ali G
Main article: Ali G

After a brief office-work career which included a stint as a quantitative analyst at investment bank Goldman Sachs[15], 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 Junglist, 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 film

Main article: 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.

Ali G interviews

Ali G's interviews with famous people (often politicians) gained notoriety partly because the subjects were not privy to the joke that Ali G, rather than being a real interviewer, was a comedic character played by Baron Cohen. According to Rolling Stone magazine, Cohen would always enter the interview area in character as Ali G, carrying equipment and appearing to be an insignificant crew-member. He would be with a suited man, who the interviewee naturally thought was the interviewer. Cohen, as Ali G, would sit down to begin conducting the interview by asking the interviewee some preliminary questions. The interviewee, however, would remain under the impression that the smartly-dressed director would be conducting the interview until short notice prior to cameras rolling: this would grant an advantage of surprise, whereby the interviewee would be less likely to opt out of the Ali interview prior to its commencement.

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:

Rooney was 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".

Another interview, with former White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater, grew so contentious that Fitzwater ended the interview and proclaimed about Ali G "The guy's an idiot."

Bruno character

Sacha Baron Cohen as 'Bruno'
Main article: Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen character)

Baron Cohen's second alter ego is 'Bruno' (sometimes written Brüno), a gay Austrian fashion show presenter, 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. Bruno asks the subjects to answer 'yes or no' questions with either "Vassap" (yes), or "Ich don't think so" (no), or sometimes "Ach, ja!" (oh yes!) or "Nicht, nicht" (not, not). In at least one segment on Da Ali G Show he encouraged his guest to answer questions with either "Keep them in the ghetto" or "Train to Auschwitz". Bruno's main comedic satire pertains to the vacuity and inanity of the fashion and clubbing world, so for instance the aforesaid indifference towards potentially upsetting Holocaust references is intended to reveal a certain insularity surrounding the cultural context of the interviewee.

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 "Brüno") does as well as "Borat", Baron Cohen stands to make approximately $30 million. [16]

Borat character

File:Boratmoi.jpg
Borat meets with the fictitious Kazakh Ministry of Information, which commissions him to make a documentary. This picture is from Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Main article: Borat

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, a feature film with "Borat" at the centre, 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 23, 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. The film is a mockumentary which 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 theatres averaging $31,600 per theatre, the third highest per-theatre 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 earned an estimated $20 million in 3,458 cinemas.

Baron Cohen won the 2007 Golden Globe in the "Best Actor - Musical or Comedy" category, his sixth such award. Although Borat was up for "Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy," the film lost to Dreamgirls. On 23 January 2007, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He shared his nomination with the film's co-writers, Ant Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, and Todd Phillips.

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 as such, not included in the film), Borat performs at a small-town USA bar singing an anti-Semitic song called 'In My Country There is Problem' (including lyrics such as "Throw the Jew down the well!", "You must grab [the Jew] by his horns" and "[The Jews are] always taking all your money, they never give it back to you"), with many in the bar singing along.[17]

Although the character Borat is Kazakh, he frequently begins segments with Polish expressions "Jak się masz?" (How are you?), "Dzień dobry" (Good day) and "Dziekuję" (Thank you). His use of "Boutrous" was used on BBC's The Fast Show sketches, and Mahir "I Kiss You" Çağrı publicly claims much of the Borat character was based on him. Borat's favorite singer is Korki Buchek. He sings the famous song "Bing Bang". In one scene of the film, Borat encounters some men from Atlanta, Georgia. When asked of his favorite music, he shares the name Korki Buchek and proceeds to sing a song, which causes the men from Atlanta to laugh at him.

Flying Dolphin Press announced on May 23, 2007 that Cohen would be publishing a travel guide as Borat, with dual titles: Borat: Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Borat: Touristic Guidings To Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. No release date has been announced.[18]

Other appearances

  • Baron Cohen as Ali G appeared as the limousine driver in Madonna's 2000 video "Music", directed by Jonas Akerlund who was also responsible for directing the titles for Da Ali G Show.
  • 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 Julian, in Dreamworks' family movie Madagascar (2005), and appeared as Will Ferrell's arch rival the French Formula 1 speed demon 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. During this speech, Ali G maintained his idiocy and hilarity, despite the venue, with continual references to one of the audience members as a female who had been featured in an adult movie that Ali G had watched in his hotel room the night before.
  • 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 football (soccer) player David Beckham and wife Victoria, for the benefit of the charity.
  • Baron Cohen will appear alongside Johnny Depp in the film Sweeney Todd as Signor Adolfo Pirelli.
  • Baron Cohen appeared out of character around the time of the launch of the Ali G show on HBO, in the United States. This appearance is often omitted or forgotten about, but is notable because he very rarely talks to any media outlets out of character and has become a household name now, but at that point he was almost completely unknown in the US.
  • Baron Cohen appeared out of character to present an award at the British Comedy Awards in December 2006. He said at that the time that Borat could not make it to the awards as 'he is at a conference in Iran at the moment,' referring to the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust. Cohen also referred to that same Iranian conference as a "holocaust denial conference", saying that Borat was the "guest of honour" and jokingly describing it as a "very important conference".
  • Baron Cohen also appeared out of character as part of the New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend 2007. After the screening of Borat at the Imaginasian Theater in Manhattan, Baron Cohen graced the audience with his presence, a Q&A session, and a period for autograph signing.

Controversies

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

  • Two residents of Glod, the Romanian village in which the opening scenes of Borat were filmed, hired US attorney Ed Fagan to sue the makers of Borat for $30 million. They allege the intent of the film was misrepresented to them, that the poorest members of their village were made to look like "savages", and that they were underpaid, particularly when their minute salaries were compared to the millions earned by the completed movie.[19] The lawsuit was dismissed in a New York hearing on the grounds that the allegations were too vague to stand up in court.[20]
  • 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.'[21]
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.[22] "Borat essentially works as a tool. By himself being anti-Semitic, he lets people lower their guard and expose their own prejudice," Baron Cohen explains. [5] Addressing the same topic in an NPR interview with Robert Siegel, Cohen says "...and I think that's quite an interesting thing with Borat, which is people really let down their guard with him because they're in a room with somebody who seems to have these outrageous opinions. They sometimes feel much more relaxed about letting their own outrageous, politically incorrect, prejudiced opinions come out."[23] 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."[5] 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."[5]
  • 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."[24] 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.'[25] 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.' [26]
  • Baron Cohen encountered another problem around his Borat character. Two of the three college students who appear in Borat sued the filmmakers, alleging that they were duped into signing release forms while drunk, and that false promises were made that the footage was for a documentary that would never be screened in the USA. On 11 December 2006, a Los Angeles judge denied the pair a restraining order to remove them from the film. [27] The lawsuit was dismissed in February 2007. [28]

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'.[29] 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) emphasizing that a Kazakhstani news reporter hosted the awards, while others (such as Index.hu) noticed and pointed out the error.[30]

TV, radio, and magazine appearances

As a general rule, Baron Cohen rarely does interviews out of character. However, in 2004, he did the talk show circuit appearing as himself on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Opie and Anthony Show, The Howard Stern Show[31], and others in order to promote the upcoming season of his show on HBO. He was also interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered.[32] He also did an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, published in November 2006, that the magazine labelled "his only interview as himself".[5] However, he recently appeared in an interview out of character with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air on 4 January 2007.[33]

"Borat" 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.[34] 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."[35]

It was reported online that Baron Cohen may play Freddie Mercury in a biographical film[36]. However, his publicist declares that Cohen will not be playing the part.[37]

Awards & nominations

  • 1999 - Won British Comedy Award, Best Male Comedy Newcomer for: "The 11 O'Clock Show" (1998)
  • 2000 - Nominated BAFTA TV Award, Best Entertainment Performance for: "The 11 O'Clock Show" (1998)
  • 2000 - Nominated National Television Award, UK, Most Popular Comedy Performer for: "Da Ali G Show" (2000)
  • 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 Ronnie Barker Award [38]
  • 2007 - Won MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss: alongside Will Ferrell in Talledega Nights

"Borat" film awards and nominations

  • 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)
  • 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 - Won Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical for Borat and Nominated for 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)
  • 2007 - Nominated for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (2006)
  • 2007 - Won the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance

Miscellaneous

  • Sports Illustrated's November 6 2006 issue contains a column called "Skater vs. Instigator", which illustrates various amusing "parallels" between Sacha Baron Cohen and figure skater Sasha Cohen, ranging from their mutually held personal significance of the number 4 [11], to their mutual romantic interests in redheads.
  • Baron Cohen featured in the Time 100 list for 2007.[39]

Filmography

Year Title Role Other notes
2008 Dinner for Schmucks unknown unknown (in production - scripting)
2008 Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill Curly Oxide unknown (in production - scripting)
2008 Madagascar 2 Julien (voice) computer-animated film (in production - filming)
2008 Bruno The Movie Bruno film (in development)
2007 Sweeney Todd Signor Adolfo Pirelli film (in production - post)
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 film

http://Borat.tv http://www.BoratOnline.co.uk

2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Jean Girard film
2005 Curb Your Enthusiasm (season 5 episode 10 "The End") Larry's Guide #2 (guest star) TV series
2005 Madagascar Julien (voice) computer-animated film
2003-2004 Da Ali G Show Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Bruno TV series
2003 Spyz James Bond (Ali G) short film
2002 Ali G Indahouse Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev film
2000 The Jolly Boys' Last Stand Vinnie film
2000 Da Ali G Show Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Bruno TV series
1998-1999 The 11 O'Clock Show Ali G TV series
1998 Live from the Lighthouse Ali G TV special
1996 Punch unnamed 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. ^ Mount, Harry (2006-09-15). "Kazakhstan launches propaganda campaign against Borat". Telegraph. Retrieved 2006-11-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "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)
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ a b c d e f Strauss, Neil. "Sacha Baron Cohen - The Real Borat - Finally Speaks". Rolling Stone Magazine.
  6. ^ White, Roland (2007-01-21). "Borat's easy ... being me is odd". Times Online. Retrieved 2007-06-18. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. ^ Rayner, Jay (2002-02-24). "Mutha of invention". Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 2006-11-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ 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)
  9. ^ [1]
  10. ^ Scott, Kirsty (September 29, 2006). "'He becomes the character, certainly with Ali G and Borat. He has a mix of Sellers's acting and Rod Hull's bottle'". Features. The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-01-16. First acted with the Habonim Dror Jewish youth group and at Cambridge in plays such as Cyrano de Bergerac and Fiddler on the Roof. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ [2]
  12. ^ [3], Fresh Air, January 4, 2007 (advance to 21:10 in the interview)
  13. ^ [4]
  14. ^ [5]
  15. ^ "Baron Cohen comes out of character to defend Borat". Forbes. 17 November 2006. Retrieved 10 April 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "Borat is Rich...NOT". Forbes. 2006-11-13. Retrieved 2006-11-21. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ Borat: Throw The Jew Down The Well
  18. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070524/en_nm/books_borat_dc,
  19. ^ "Borat film 'tricked' poor village actors", Daily Mail, November 11, 2006.
  20. ^ "New York judge questions viability of villagers' 'Borat' lawsuit" IHT, December 5, 2006
  21. ^ TheJewishWeek.com article
  22. ^ "Borat" satire turns to farce at Toronto festival
  23. ^ NPR story
  24. ^ "British comic responds to legal threat against 'Borat'", CBC, 25 November 2005.
  25. ^ "Daughter of Kazakhstan's president defends Borat", CBC, 21 April 2006.
  26. ^ "Kazakh invite for Borat creator", BBC News, 19 October 2006.
  27. ^ "L.A. judge sides with 'Borat' against frat boys", 11 December 2006, Reuters
  28. ^ Borat Frat Boys Lawsuit Dismissed By Judge Who Secretly Knows Sacha Baron Cohen's Golden Globes Speech By Heart
  29. ^ MTI reporting from MTV Europe Music Awards
  30. ^ Index.hu article
  31. ^ [6]
  32. ^ [7]
  33. ^ [8]
  34. ^ Newsweek article
  35. ^ Newsweek article
  36. ^ http://www.spin.com/features/news/2007/05/070504_queen/
  37. ^ Sacha Baron Cohen Won't Play Freddie Mercury In Queen Biopic
  38. ^ "Sacha Leaves Borat Behind Hello Magazine, 2006/12/14
  39. ^ Barr, Roseanne (2007-05-04). "Sacha Baron Cohen, Time 100". Time magazine. Retrieved 2007-05-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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