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* TallDarkAndSnarky: Well, "snarky" in the "[[StealthParody saying ridiculous things]] [[PoesLaw and getting people to take them completely seriously]]" sense. Cohen is 6'3, and frequently makes use of his impressive height to make his already cartoonish characters seem that much more larger-than-life, pun not intended.
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* TallDarkAndSnarky: Well, "snarky" in the "[[StealthParody saying ridiculous things]] [[PoesLaw and getting people to take them completely seriously]]" sense. Cohen is stands an impressive 6'3, and frequently makes use of his impressive substantial height to make his already cartoonish characters seem that much more larger-than-life, pun not intended.
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* StarMakingRole: Borat. However prior to that he was known for TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby to American audiences after breaking out on tv to U.K. audiences with DaAliGShow. His role as King Julien in WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} helped the movie get two sequels.
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* StarMakingRole: Borat. However prior to that he was known for TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby to American audiences after breaking out on tv to U.K. audiences with DaAliGShow.Series/DaAliGShow. His role as King Julien in WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} helped the movie get two sequels.
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* RefugeInAudacityReclusiveArtist: A necessity if you want to mess with total strangers and not have them recognize you.
* StarMakingRole: Borat. However prior to that he was known for TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby to American audiences after breaking out on tv to U.K. audiences with DaAliGShow. His role as King Julien in WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} helped the movie get two sequels.
* StarMakingRole: Borat. However prior to that he was known for TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby to American audiences after breaking out on tv to U.K. audiences with DaAliGShow. His role as King Julien in WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} helped the movie get two sequels.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: He is not afraid of writing incredibly offensive humor and play UnsymatheticComedyProtagonist 's but he apparently is a much nicer guy in real life.
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* NWordPrivileges: The only way that he could ever get away with a character like Borat, singing a song called "Throw the Jew down the Well..."
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* ManOfAThousandVoices: One of his trademarks. This guy can do accents to match his ethnic characters.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite his films not caring about who them shock or offend, Sasha himself is a much nicer guy in real life, unlike his UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist / VillainProtagonist.
* ReclusiveArtist: A necessity if you want to mess with total strangers and not have them recognize you.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite his films not caring about who them shock or offend, Sasha himself is a much nicer guy in real life, unlike his UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist / VillainProtagonist.
* ReclusiveArtist: A necessity if you want to mess with total strangers and not have them recognize you.
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* ManOfAThousandVoices: One of his trademarks. This guy can do accents to match his ethnic characters.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite his films not caring about who them shock or offend, Sasha himself''any'' accent, which is a much nicer guy helpful in real life, unlike his UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist / VillainProtagonist.
* ReclusiveArtist: A necessity if you want to mess with total strangers and not have them recognize you.playing a variety of characters all of different ethnicities.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite his films not caring about who them shock or offend, Sasha himself
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite his films not caring about who them shock or offend, Sasha himself is a much nicer guy in real life, unlike his UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist/VillainProtagonist.UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist / VillainProtagonist.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Despite his films not caring about who them shock or offend, Sasha himself is a much nicer guy in real life, unlike his UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist/VillainProtagonist.
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* ManOfAThousandVoices: One of his trademarks. This guy can do ''any'' accent!
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* ManOfAThousandVoices: One of his trademarks. This guy can do ''any'' accent!accents to match his ethnic characters.
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* {{Troll}}: Famously.
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* {{Troll}}: Famously. Virtually all his characters are outrageous caricatures meant to make fun of real people by either pushing their buttons or playing into their own biases, usually both at the same time.
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Sacha Baron Cohen is an English comedian, actor and [[TheGadfly gadfly]] extraordinaire best known for his fictional personas (including the gangsta-wannabe Ali G, racist and backward foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, gay Austrian fashonista Brüno, Gaddafi-like Arab dictator Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen) [[BlackLikeMe generally used]] [[{{Troll}} to provoke reactions]] [[PoesLaw from people who don't know they're fictional]] so as to expose their own bigotry and for ''really'' dark BlackComedy.
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Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English comedian, actor and [[TheGadfly gadfly]] extraordinaire best known for his fictional personas (including the gangsta-wannabe Ali G, racist and backward foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, gay Austrian fashonista Brüno, Gaddafi-like Arab dictator Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen) [[BlackLikeMe generally used]] [[{{Troll}} to provoke reactions]] [[PoesLaw from people who don't know they're fictional]] so as to expose their own bigotry and for ''really'' dark BlackComedy.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Arguably to AndyKaufman. The major difference is, while Kaufman was considered too weird to be financially or critically successful, Baron Cohen is a highly in-demand movie star who lets the viewer in on the jokes.
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* ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby,'' as TheRival.
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* ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass'' as Time
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* ''Film/{{Grimsby}}'' - Nobby Butcher
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!!Tropes related to Baron Cohen and his films:
* ManOfAThousandVoices: One of his trademarks. This guy can do ''any'' accent!
* ReclusiveArtist: A necessity if you want to mess with total strangers and not have them recognize you.
* RefugeInAudacity
* SpiritualSuccessor: Arguably to AndyKaufman. The major difference is, while Kaufman was considered too weird to be financially or critically successful, Baron Cohen is a highly in-demand movie star who lets the viewer in on the jokes.
* {{Troll}}: Famously.
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Sacha Baron Cohen is an English comedian, actor and [[TheGadfly gadfly]] extraordinaire best known for his fictional personas (including the gangsta-wannabe Ali G, racist and backward foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, gay Austrian fashonista Brüno, Gaddafi-like Arab dictator Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen) [[BlackLikeMe generally used]] [[{{Troll}} to provoke reactions]] [[PoesLaw from people who don't know they're fictional]] so as to expose their own bigotry and BlackComedy.
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Sacha Baron Cohen is an English comedian, actor and [[TheGadfly gadfly]] extraordinaire best known for his fictional personas (including the gangsta-wannabe Ali G, racist and backward foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, gay Austrian fashonista Brüno, Gaddafi-like Arab dictator Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen) [[BlackLikeMe generally used]] [[{{Troll}} to provoke reactions]] [[PoesLaw from people who don't know they're fictional]] so as to expose their own bigotry and for ''really'' dark BlackComedy.
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Sacha Baron Cohen is an English comedian and actor best known for his fictional personas (including the gangsta-wannabe Ali G, racist and backward foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, gay Austrian fashonista Brüno, Gaddafi-like Arab dictator Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen) [[BlackLikeMe generally used]] [[{{Troll}} to provoke reactions]] [[PoesLaw from people who don't know they're fictional]]... and BlackComedy.
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Sacha Baron Cohen is an English comedian and comedian, actor and [[TheGadfly gadfly]] extraordinaire best known for his fictional personas (including the gangsta-wannabe Ali G, racist and backward foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, gay Austrian fashonista Brüno, Gaddafi-like Arab dictator Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen) [[BlackLikeMe generally used]] [[{{Troll}} to provoke reactions]] [[PoesLaw from people who don't know they're fictional]]... fictional]] so as to expose their own bigotry and BlackComedy.
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* ''{{Madagascar}}'' series, as King Julien
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[[caption-width-right:180:He's thinking of some way to take the piss out of you as we speak.]]
Sacha Baron Cohen is an English comedian and actor best known for his fictional personas (including the gangsta-wannabe Ali G, racist and backward foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, gay Austrian fashonista Brüno, Gaddafi-like Arab dictator Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen) [[BlackLikeMe generally used]] [[{{Troll}} to provoke reactions]] [[PoesLaw from people who don't know they're fictional]]... and BlackComedy.
!!Works featuring Sacha Baron Cohen's characters include:
* ''Series/DaAliGShow'' - Ali G/Borat/Bruno
* ''AliGIndahouse'' - Ali G/Borat
* ''Film/{{Borat}}'' - [[{{Ruritania}} Borat]]
* ''Film/{{Bruno}}'' - [[CampGay Bruno]]
* ''Film/TheDictator'' - [[TheGeneralissimo Admiral]] [[PresidentForLife General]] [[{{Qurac}} Aladeen]]
!!Other works in which Sacha Baron Cohen has appeared include:
* ''{{Madagascar}}'' series, as King Julien
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', as Signor Adolfo Pirelli [[spoiler: (real name Davy Collins)]]
* ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby,'' as TheRival.
* ''Film/{{Hugo}}'' as the Station Inspector
* ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' as Thernadier
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' as Jakob
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[[caption-width-right:180:He's thinking of some way to take the piss out of you as we speak.]]
Sacha Baron Cohen is an English comedian and actor best known for his fictional personas (including the gangsta-wannabe Ali G, racist and backward foreign journalist Borat Sagdiyev, gay Austrian fashonista Brüno, Gaddafi-like Arab dictator Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen) [[BlackLikeMe generally used]] [[{{Troll}} to provoke reactions]] [[PoesLaw from people who don't know they're fictional]]... and BlackComedy.
!!Works featuring Sacha Baron Cohen's characters include:
* ''Series/DaAliGShow'' - Ali G/Borat/Bruno
* ''AliGIndahouse'' - Ali G/Borat
* ''Film/{{Borat}}'' - [[{{Ruritania}} Borat]]
* ''Film/{{Bruno}}'' - [[CampGay Bruno]]
* ''Film/TheDictator'' - [[TheGeneralissimo Admiral]] [[PresidentForLife General]] [[{{Qurac}} Aladeen]]
!!Other works in which Sacha Baron Cohen has appeared include:
* ''{{Madagascar}}'' series, as King Julien
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', as Signor Adolfo Pirelli [[spoiler: (real name Davy Collins)]]
* ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby,'' as TheRival.
* ''Film/{{Hugo}}'' as the Station Inspector
* ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' as Thernadier
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' as Jakob
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