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Sacha Baron Cohen: After Borat, what’s left for the savage satirist? – The Guardian
From Ali G to the latest outing for his monstrous Kazakh journalist, the comic has delighted and offended for 20 years
Thirteen years ago Sacha Baron Cohen announced that he was retiring the character of Borat Sagdiyev, the Kazakh journalist in the ill-fitting grey suit and Saddam moustache. It was a logical step in what is, as Baron Cohen has called it, a self-defeating line of work.
Borats satirical power was dependent on being unknown. But the global success of the 2006 mockumentary feature film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, for which Baron Cohen won a Golden…
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