Sacha Baron Cohen talks about playing Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7, going to clown school and the birth of Ali G and Borat.
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sacha has "resting axe-murderer face," but when he talks, and especially when he smiles, he's breathtakingly gorgeous. :)
Um.. ya nailed it.
"put on the grey suit again" sounds like the opening to a Batman movie... Boratman?
Sacha Baron Cohen is such a dream of a man... he's so reflected and smart... has such a beautiful big heart... his work helps so much in exposing the ridiculousness of all that infantile hate and greed... all that weird ignorance about seemingly obvious things... and he puts so much into his work... and on top of that he's so(!) funny and if that wasn't all enough he's also sexy. damn....
It always amazes me how nice he seems, totally against the characters he plays.
@@boomslangCA I've seen a couple of LA restaurant waiters on TV say that he's one of the nicest celebrity customers.
Sacha is a legend.
I partied with Abbie Hoffman in 1979 on welsley island in the st Lawrence seaway
“I never really wanted to do another Borat movie and then Donald T***p came along...” When T***p is the reason to bring back a character you didn’t want to revive, it says something!
Wouldn't it be better if instead of 'T***p' you wrote 'Turd'? I think it fits Donald much much better. 'Donald Turd' ... what a fitting name!
As soon as I saw the title, I was like "I bet he studied with Phillipe Gaulier"
Yup! Bang that drum.
Same!
Nope, must be a clown thing.
I thought exactly the same and BINGO!!! It was. 🤣
Of course he did.
As an Atheist, I don't believe in any deity! but if I did, one of the first things I would thank god for would be for Sacha Baron Cohen and his genius!!
thank entropy for Sacha Baron Cohen!
He never had to go out of his way to do what he thinks is right to do.He could have been far more selfish, given his privately-educated background.He is a great and talented performer.His books , the Ali G and Borat ones, are hilarious still.
I live in MS now and made the mistake of watching the Abbie Hoffman film in the presence of locals so I missed half of the dialogue while listening to conservative-blowhard-y rhetoric, but Sasha's characterisation was incredible! There's method AND madness behind his work--sort of a modern Peter Sellers.
FIrst time I've heard the Peter Sellers comparison, but it sounds about right. $0.02 cheers Ingrid.
you can stream it online with headphones and catch all of Aaron Sorkin's brilliant screenplay! 😸😺
@@MatthewHarrold Hey, thanks. Not sure it ever occurred to me before today, but I'm sorta surprised it hadn't. I think people think of Sellers as cheerful and sweet if they only know him from 'roles', but he was a rabble-rouser with a 'confrontational' streak much like Sasha Baron Cohen :)
@@hahah9650 I absolutely should! Thanks for the reminder :)
Spot on. One of the first things I thought of after watching the latest Borat movie, is that I got a Peter Sellers vibe, from it. The man is a genius.
Watch his Netflix series 'Spy'
'Intense Clown School' was the band that played at my prom.
i thought it was Seth's improv team.
Must have been these guys! :) kzhead.info/sun/aauhkZ2wqX9nY68/bejne.html
ICP is suing them for copyright infringement...
Sounds like a non-copyright-infringing version of Insane Clown Posse.
I also went to clown school. It was really in tents! Clown schools are more in tents than most people realize. The in tents training is grueling and is obviously rain or shine mostly dealing with short bursts of water from oversized fake lapel flowers and a bop on the head but in tents none the less! Clowns who graduate may go on to enjoy a larger more in tents career but most will likely drop out and go on to boxing.
Why not in buildings?
You know what else is in tents? Homeless sex.
That was pretty clever.
The old Ali G show was legendary. They also released a lot of highlight DVDs, I should pull them out of storage for a revisit!
Such an amazing actor and so hilarious!
We have this show in my country dancing cat and dog.. it’s very good we make the floor hot so they dance.. still gives me the giggles 20 years later
This film was incredible. Watch it.
Thank you, Seth and Sacha!
Sacha is so so 🔥🔥🔥 I can't
Legend
Most talented, SBC✌️💙
Man, Sacha is such a treat to listen to...not only does he have crazy stories from his life, but he also takes delight in his experiences like no other.
Those eyebrows!
I am impressed that a young one like Seth knows about Abbie Hoffman, one of my heroes. Read Revolution for The Hell of It. Yippee!
Also Steal this book. But that movie unfortunately is a disgrace to Abbies name...
Looks bad on you considering he is a very political person, and has a news comedy show, and is clearly educated. ..
@@raywilliams212 yeah, Vincent D'Onofrio makes almost every character he plays come off as an egomaniacal a-hole, but I'm a good 8 years younger than Seth and that film at least lead me to his writing and biography 🤷🏻♀️
I'm impressed that a young one like you knows about da Vinci, or Caesar, or Jesus...... fairly certain abbie hoffman wouldn't have approved at how elitist and pretentious you sound while bringing up his name.....
@@chriswright8114 fairly certain how clueless you are just trolling along about things you know nothing about. I'd like to know if either of them, or you, know anything about Herbert Marcuse.
✊🏻"Shutting down things" (Guliani, shows, and even tv channels) seems to be the modus operandi of Sasha Baron Cohen 😅👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
He "stole" my secret crush, Isla, damn you Borat!
Damn Bro same here! I actually asked her for a date in 1997 and she turned me down so sweetly with, "I'd love to but I'm not in the area very long". So closer than most, but still a million miles away. Damn you Borat!
Isla stole my secret crush. Sasha Baron Cohen is was mine 😻
That was a pretty cool interview. I only know about foxhunts in England because some children's film I'd seen as a kid had one in it. If I had seen them in real life, I might have put on a fake moustache and talked with a Kazikstani accent too.
The clown teacher sounds like a sadist.... A sadistic clown; what a concept!!
He's very talented. Despite his raunchy humor. I laughed so hard at Borat naked fight. He did a good job playing Abbie Hoffman.
King Julien in the house!!!👑🥭
I had such a genuine mindfuck _years_ later when I realized that Sacha voiced king Julien.
Loved the damn lemur!
@@Alexander-uk4fw King Julien was my favorite; but after finding out it was Sacha that voiced him i couldn’t get enough of him and his crazy antics. Very funny 🤣😂🤣
Cohen is the reincarnation of Andy Kaufmann - nobody has been that kind of provocateur since Andy did his schtick of the joke being on the audience.
I love Borat. You are htalented and very funny. Don't let Borat die
Love the man, couldn’t stomach any of the Borats.
SBC is a maverick.
Read Hoffman's "Steal This Book"
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sacha baron cohen greatest living comedian
Please watch his interview on Jimmy Kimmel. The BEST interview ever. Hilarious 😄
Yes it was funny! Him and his wife. Both beautiful people. Love their relationship. I’m jealous. She took my secret crush lol 😂
If he wins that Oscar I soooo look forward to what he'd have to say in his acceptance speech.
I really can't believe he got away with another Borat film....Ace.
It's amazing to see this guy grow in his skills. I remember when I would watch HBO as a kid in the early 2000s and AliG was just some weird wannabe lookin gangster guy. Now look where he is.
if you think you're a class clown, now this is the dude who literally goes to a clown school, all class clown around the world should pray to him for a good funny day
Dreamy
This is the first time I’ve ever heard Sacha’s natural voice as an adult. My teenage self is confused now.
Gaulier
I DID NOT KNOW SACHA HAS A BRITISH ACCENT
That's everybody's story in the US.
Please, please a follow up to The Dictator. It was such a precursor to Trump ( yet worked well for Bush ).
I wished sacha baron Cohen could have done the voice for julien in the shows also?
bring on the clowns...
I thought all schools were clown schools hmmmmm confused now
Frank Zappa would have loved Sacha.
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Too bad he didn't do a skit like he did on Jimmy kimmel
That was hilarious 😂
@@francelinamommyof3204 ya lol
I wish Sacha Baron Cohen would do to the current Australian government what he did to the Trump government. Scott Morrison & Co are virtually an identikit image of the Trump admin.
I enjoy Cohen's work but there is a certain mean-spiritedness that informs some of it. Many of the 'normal' folks who got caught up in the web of his latest movie weren't any more responsible for the mess in this country than he would claim to be. Guiliani earned the scorn he's getting, however he has a lot of power and unchecked privilege.
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buncha fawning fans in the comment section.
It's not that I blame Cohen for choosing to stop portraying Borat over safety concerns... but unfortunately, he's just not that funny or interesting when he's not making real-life people extremely uncomfortable. That's the secret of his comedy. It might be the "right decision," but R.I.P. Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy career.
Trump being president exposed a lot of snowflakes. Borat is one of them which is sad..
You’re aware Borat isn’t real aren’t you?
@@lazytitan9987 I refer to him as borat. He'll always be borat to me.. and the guy from talladega nights. Sasha baron something.
The first movie had major criticisms of Bush and the same bigots and ignoramuses who supported Trump. Borat didn't change.
@@ArchibaldClumpy the vast majority of Trump supporters are not fans of the Bush administration. We're anti war. Bush was pro war. In fact we've been criticizing you liberals for acting like Bush and Cheney were good people. They weren't..
@@11Nosferatu11 I fear the only snowflakes exposed were on the right, people who watch a video with the actor’s name on it and claim they’re not confused about reality, but can’t remember his name. For example.