If you've witnessed any episode of HBO's "Da Ali G Show," the 2006 film "Borat" or its upcoming spiritual follow-up "Brüno," then it'd be very easy to come to the conclusion that Sacha Baron Cohen is a comedic chameleon without equal. You would be wrong though. There also a not-so-little somebody that may or may not have gone by the name of Andy Kaufman.
Like Cohen, Kaufman's entire routine depended on the idea of deception: deceiving his co-stars and unwitting participants at times, but always shocking his audience in one form or another. The two entertainers had their own sets of characters but the alter-ego personas definitely share some common traits, if only in method and on a thematic level. Read More...
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Two Of A Kind: Sacha Baron Cohen And Andy Kaufman
Posted 7/9/09 2:00 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Commentary
Like Cohen, Kaufman's entire routine depended on the idea of deception: deceiving his co-stars and unwitting participants at times, but always shocking his audience in one form or another. The two entertainers had their own sets of characters but the alter-ego personas definitely share some common traits, if only in method and on a thematic level. Read More...
Tags Andy Kaufman, bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen