Sasha Baron Cohen The Dictator General Aladden Borat Bruno satire The unheralded genius of comedy

Happy Birthday Sasha

One of the most undisputed genius of modern satire in the film industry, Sasha Baron Cohen is best known for characters such as General Aladeen in The Dictator, Bruno Gehard in Bruno and Borat Sagdiyev in Borat. Unlike any other film industry comedians, Sasha Baron Cohen’s work transcend the box of the television or air-conditioned cinema hall. His unique blend of societal issues and sarcasm projecting as a comedy is beyond laudatory and has sometimes landed him in the scrutiny of indignant diplomats. A British born actor, comedian, screenwriter, a film producer with the shield of Achilles, Sasha’s brazen and abrasive approach causing exploitive response only acts to how impactful his work is in incorporating social issues in his comedic routines. Using his wit and flair to every character, Sasha Baron Cohen will have you fooling from being a Middle Eastern man to an Australian to a cartoon character because accents come to him naturally. While this comedic genius turns 47 today, we look at some of his most humourous characters.

King Jullien xiii

King Jullien xiii (Madacasgar)- ‘I like to move it move it, I like to move it move it. The grey ring-tailed lemur with yellow eyes with a lazy, stubborn arrogant, hyper character is none other than Sasha Baron Cohen. Fool’d you, didn’t he? That is just how versatile a character he can morph into.

General Aladden

General Aladden (The Dictator)- This one is quite obvious, everyone loves him or love to hate this character. Regardless of the divided opinions, you got to admit no one can pull off The Dictator of Wadiya which he so lovingly did better than the Man himself.

Bruno Gehard

Bruno Gehard (Bruno)- A flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter, Bruno Gehard is a satirical fictional character who sugar-coats and lures his unsuspecting subjects into making provocative statements, to be caught up in embarrassing situation as well as well as leading them to negative the positive and the vice versa. His character in the same interview as Sasha intended pointed to the void and frivolousness of the fashion industry. And many have questioned as to how impossibly this genius could stay so stoically in his character like he was Bruno in real life.

Ali G

Ali G (Ali G IndaHouse)- Another satirical, fictional character taking on the role of an uneducated, boorish junglist which Sasha took beyond just the movie. Appearing Ali G himself in many late-night shows and going about interviewing celebrities, including Donald Trump, Ali G will have you scratching your head like, Is he Sasha Baron as Ali G or Ali G himself.

Borat Sagdiyev

Borat Sagdiyev (Borat)- One of the characters that dubbed him the term ‘Genius’, Borat also won him the Golden Globe Awards and even Academy award nomination. Playing as Borat, a buffon-like journalist from Kazakhstan who journeys across the US in an ice-cream truck to marry Pamela Anderson, Sasha uses racist, sexist, homo-phobic, and anti-Semist jokes as a bait to confirm the already social predicament people carry themselves with. The movie is adroitly absurd, outrageous, insightful and an unsustainable satiric-masterpiece.