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Sacha Baron Cohen has filed a lawsuit against a cannabis company, Solar Therapeutics, alleging that it was using his Borat persona to promote its brand of medical marijuana in Massachusetts. TMZ reports that Baron Cohen is upset about a giant billboard that was next to the interstate and included the face of the fictional Kazakhstani journalist alongside the […]
The winners for the 25th Annual Webby Awards were announced on Tuesday. The 2021 ceremony, hosted by Jameela Jamil, was dedicated to those who found innovative ways to use the internet to help people stay connected amid a grueling pandemic year. In that spirit, it’s no surprise the Webby Person of the Year distinction went […]
While Sacha Baron Cohen has said he won’t be making a third Borat movie, fans will still get to see more of the character thanks to some previously unseen footage on the way. A multi-part special entitled Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved From Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine will be coming to Amazon Prime Video soon, and will feature both extended and […]
Sacha Baron Cohen has already suggested that Borat Subsequent Moviefilm will be the last time we see his beloved character, and now he’s explained why. In an interview with his Trial of the Chicago 7 co-stars Eddie Redmayne and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for ET, Cohen seemed to imply that the danger he puts himself in to film as Borat […]
2020 has filled out a lot of deeply strange spaces on that proverbial bingo card, but few outside of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s immediate orbit could have expected a new Borat movie a full 14 years after the original. According to a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cohen said that he revived the famous fictional Kazakhstani well before […]
In stark contrast to their reaction after the release of the first movie (which led to a nationwide ban and the threat of a lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen), the government of Kazakhstan is embracing Borat/accepting the way things are, to the point that they’ve adopted his “very nice!” catchphrase as a slogan. The New York […]
Donald Trump has made it clear he isn’t a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen. However, the feeling appears to be mutual. On Saturday afternoon, Cohen took to Twitter to respond to the president’s recent criticism of his comedic work, which he deemed unfunny. Trump made the comments on Friday night when a reporter asked about a controversial scene in Borat […]
Borat took to social media Thursday night to troll defend Rudy Giuliani. Less than an hour before the final 2020 presidential debate, the fictional character—played by Sacha Baron Cohen—addressed a highly publicized prank on the former New York mayor. The stunt in question appears in the upcoming flick Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, which shows Giuliani in a compromising position with Borat’s teenage daughter, played by 24-year-old actress Maria […]
Quite mercifully, this Friday brings the world the return of Borat with the Amazon Prime release of the concisely titled Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Ahead of the long-overdue sequel to the 2006 classic, star and creator Sacha Baron Cohen appeared in character on […]
Though Sacha Baron Cohen‘s contributions to the history of exposing political leaders as ethically bankrupt is well-documented, the vast majority of these instances have occurred while Cohen was in character in pursuit of reliably hilarious satire. In a new piece for Time magazine out Thursday, the comedian—whose Borat sequel soon hits Amazon—references moments in his career […]
