This is Cohen's first TV show in a decade
The British comedian first made a name for himself in the late 90s and early 2000s with his blinged-up character Ali G, who called himself the "voice of da yoof".
Some of Cohen's interviewees (/victims) at that time were former US speaker of the house Newt Gingrich, second-man-on-the-moon Buzz Aldrin, and then-businessman and current resident of the White House Donald Trump.
Two other characters from Da Ali G Show were Borat, the Kazakh journalist who later starred in the 2006 mockumentary of the same name and earned his creator a best actor Golden Globe, and Bruno, the Austrian fashionista who similarly had his own movie in 2009.
He's back performing as new characters
Sacha Baron Cohen as Erran Morad
PHOTO: Sacha Baron Cohen as Erran Morad (Showtime)
They are:
Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr, a conspiracy theorist and founder of alt-right website Truthbrary.org ("Obamacare came in, I was forced to see a doctor, and suddenly I had three diseases")
Dr Nira Cain-N'Degeocello, a liberal gender studies academic ("I'm a cisgender white heterosexual male, for which I apologise")
Ricky Sherman, a British ex-prisoner turning his life around as an artist ("I made one mistake, just 14 times")
Erran Morad, an Israeli anti-terror expert ("I am the terrorist terminator")
Cohen wears make-up, prosthetics and costumes to get in character, which is why, despite his infamy, his interview guests couldn't tell who they were dealing with.
The first episode of Who Is America? was released on July 15, with the other six to air week-by-week.
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YOUTUBE: Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?
Sacha Baron Cohen as Erran Morad
PHOTO: Sacha Baron Cohen as Erran Morad (Showtime)
They are:
Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr, a conspiracy theorist and founder of alt-right website Truthbrary.org ("Obamacare came in, I was forced to see a doctor, and suddenly I had three diseases")
Dr Nira Cain-N'Degeocello, a liberal gender studies academic ("I'm a cisgender white heterosexual male, for which I apologise")
Ricky Sherman, a British ex-prisoner turning his life around as an artist ("I made one mistake, just 14 times")
Erran Morad, an Israeli anti-terror expert ("I am the terrorist terminator")
Cohen wears make-up, prosthetics and costumes to get in character, which is why, despite his infamy, his interview guests couldn't tell who they were dealing with.
The first episode of Who Is America? was released on July 15, with the other six to air week-by-week.
Politicians support fake guns-for-kids program
YOUTUBE: Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?