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12-21-2007, 04:52 PM
In a rare interview as himself, Sacha Baron Cohen tells John Hiscock about auditioning for Sondheim, the secret he kept from Tim Burton - and the pain of abandoning his comic creations.
He became a comedy sensation as the wannabe-gangsta-rapper Ali G by humiliating the people he interviewed. As Borat, the outrageously anti-Semitic, homophobic reporter from Kazakhstan he became a cultural icon while lampooning and offending virtually everyone he came across.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/12/21/bfborat121.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
He became a comedy sensation as the wannabe-gangsta-rapper Ali G by humiliating the people he interviewed. As Borat, the outrageously anti-Semitic, homophobic reporter from Kazakhstan he became a cultural icon while lampooning and offending virtually everyone he came across.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/12/21/bfborat121.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox