Behind the wigs, fake mustaches, and strap-ons is an aughties auteur.
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A Cambridge scholar and a bumbling oaf.
A satirist and a slapstick-ist.
After Cambridge, he went to Paris for prestigious French clown schooling at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier.
They are him, and they are of him.
Its like Hannah ArendtsBanality of Evil,with more jokes about hairy balls.
Ali G
So who was Ali G?
A white middle-class boy mangling London Black vernacular but nailing a frankly Depop-worthy Y2K rapper aesthetic.
In 2002, Baron Cohen gave the character a showcase in the movieAli G Indahouse.
The proto-Borat was a Moldovian character Baron Cohen performed on the showF2Fin 1996 named Alexi Krickler.
Fast-forward to filming the firstBoratmovie, which got Baron Cohen on an FBI watchlist.
You know, withBorat, I think they came about 45 times.
Sometimes it was the police, then the FBI were following us for a while.
And so we had the FBI and then we had the Secret Service.
What language does Borat speak?
The characters Kazakh language is a combination of Hebrew and Polish.
Isla Fisher
The two met in 2002, which would explain absoluteserveslike this.
They got married in 2010 after she converted to Judaism.
What do they have in common?
Theyboth went to clown school.
Fisher says she literally never uses her clowning skills.
Baron Cohen says he owes his whole career to them.
His Love of Musicals
BaronCohen says,Musicals are my embarrassing passion; they bring me joy.
Did we mention he plays the cello?
Public Figures Hes Fucked With
Sarah PalinRudy GiulianiRep.
On the basis of that, she cast him in her Music music video.
A little over ten years later, Phillips started pitching his idea forJoker.
The scriptedThe DictatorandGrimsbywere not the sensations that his improvisedBoratandBrunowere.
Honestly, these hold up:
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