Sacha Baron Cohen
- 53 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, producer, executive producer and comedian
Press clippings Page 20
Grimsby review
Sacha Baron Cohen's jokes aren't at the expense of his latest creation - the football obsessed, kebab-munching Nobby - but at the people who imagine the character really exists.
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph, 23rd February 2016Video: Will Baron Cohen go to Oscars as Nobby?
Actress Isla Fisher talks about appearing in her husband's latest film Grimsby and what it is like at home when he comes back in character.
The film sees Baron Cohen play his latest alter-ego Nobby, a hapless, beer drinking football fan who ends up having to save the world.
Fisher told BBC News that she and her husband were heading to the Oscars and that he might attend as 'Nobby'.
BBC News, 23rd February 2016Grimsby film review
Sacha Baron Cohen's joyous ride that takes the 'grim' out of Grimsby.
Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 23rd February 2016Sacha Baron Cohen jokes about Oscars racism scandal
The star didn't seem impressed with the Academy Awards bosses.
Nicola Agius, The Mirror, 22nd February 2016Grimsby: film review
Back in the late '90s, when Da Ali G Show pulled in big ratings and before the Kazakh clown Borat spun off with his own film, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was arguably the funniest man in Britain, if you didn't count Boris Johnson (the outgoing mayor of London). In the wake of the disappointment that was 2012's The Dictator, The Brothers Grimsby (which will be called just Grimsby when it opens in the U.K. on Feb. 24) provides further evidence that Baron Cohen, having embarked on a career as a straight actor, is perhaps going a bit soft in his middle age. And that's not something one says lightly about a film featuring jokes about pedophilia, AIDS and people being accidentally anally penetrated by all manner of strange objects.
Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter, 22nd February 2016Grimsby review - Sacha Baron Cohen's gags fall flat
The Ali G and Borat creator shows little of his anarchic brilliance in this tame comedy, which is just kept from flatlining by moments of high-impact grossout.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 22nd February 2016Film review: Grimsby
Sacha Baron Cohen sets his satirical sights back on the U.K. working classes -- with spottily crass, sometimes cruel results.
Guy Lodge, Variety, 22nd February 2016Dan Mazer interview
Sacha Baron Cohen's partner in crime on Dirty Grandpa and the new Bridget Jones film.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 27th January 2016Sacha Baron Cohen goes on another Hollywood 'wild ride'
"I miss it," he said. "Being in a wild situation when you're deep in character and nobody realizing you're not real -- that's the ultimate adrenaline. But listen, I'm too old for it."
Josh Rottenberg, LA Times, 8th January 2016Video: Borat says Donald Trump is fictional character
Borat appears on The Jimmy Kimmel Live show to promote Sacha Baron Cohen's new film. Cohen's character from Kazakhstan says Donald Trump must be a fictional person, because nobody would try to ban all Muslims from the US unless they have a brain 'the size of a female chicken'. Borat concludes that Trump must be another one of Cohen's 'offensive' characters.
Jimmy Kimmel, The Guardian, 10th December 2015