Sacha Baron Cohen

The Dirtiest Joke On The Whole Golden Globes Telecast

No, it wasn't the not-coming out/coming-out speech, which did have some moving material in it. I'm talking about Sacha Baron Cohen's riff, which referenced Anne Hathaway's pooch-revealing wardrobe malfunction at the premiere of Les Miserables. That was a definite coming out, and caused many an eyeb ... More >>

Adam Lambert Slams Les Miserables

American Idol personality Adam Lambert feels the movie of Les Miserables is more than a near Mis. It made him crazy! Lambert tweeted: "Visually impressive with great Emotional performances. But the score suffered massively with great actors PRETENDING to be singers. It's an opera. Hollywood's mov ... More >>

The Ambassador: The Horror, the Horror

Prankish doc exposes the ol' heart of darkness

Culture Clash Yuks in Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator

This Week in the Voice: "Gary Jones" Wants Your Nudes

This week in the Voice, out today, Camille Dodero writes about the FBI's investigation of revenge porn entrepreneur Hunter Moore, noting: "as more unsuspecting subjects ended up on Is Anyone Up, more of them claimed that they'd been hacked -- that someone had actually gained access to their e-mail a ... More >>

The Dictator's Funniest Celebrity References

SPOILER ALERT! I'm going to give away some lines from Sacha Baron Cohen's new spoof, The Dictator, about a genocidal Wadiyan nitwit who learns some values in Brooklyn. You should see the movie--it's fun--so consider this giveaway a naughty little appetizer tray.

Sacha Cohen's The Dictator Character Endorses Mitt Romney

At a press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, General Aladeen--aka Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator--unsurprisingly backed Mitt Romney for Prez. Explained the General: "He'd make a great dictator. He's incredibly wealthy but pays no taxes. And it's not much of a leap from firing people ... More >>

General Aladeen Is Having A Press Conference

And I can't tell you where or when. But I'll be there, seeing as my presence was "cordially demanded" by Admiral General Aladeen, the Undemocratically Elected Leader and Beloved Oppressor of Wadiya, at a press conference to highlight the plight of dictatorships worldwide. The invite also gave us s ... More >>

Oscars 2012: Best Dresses With the Meh Factor

Dear Ladies of the Red Carpet: Where's the shock of the swan dress or the pizzazz of the goth showgirl of yesteryear? Come on, ladies, this is the Oscars, and it's 2012! Why are so many of you million dollar actresses playing the Grace Kelly card? We are fully aware that all of you can't pull off ... More >>

T-Minus Three Hours Until The Oscars: Some Hopes And Anticipations

via​Unless you've been living in a box, you're aware that the Oscars are tonight. While we won't be live-blogging the event like we did last year, we do have some hopes and anticipations for tonight's ceremony. So get in your gown (you do have one, don't you?), sit down in front of your laptop ... More >>

How to Succeed in Your Office Oscar Pool Without Really Trying

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Ambassador, and experimental methodology

​Mads Brugger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars Von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my Top 10 for 2010. In Chapel, Danish journalist Brugger posed as the di ... More >>

The Year in Film: 10 For 2012

A Boy, His Toy, and the History of Cinema in Hugo

The Red Chapel Crashes North Korea

Sacha Cohen Will Rock You As Freddie Mercury

​It was reported last week that Sacha Baron Cohen will play Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in a film musical, and I instantly started screeching out a joyful "Bohemian Rhapsody" as a result. First of all, Cohen has played gay more often than straight, so it's a very tight fit.

Formula Works in Get Him to the Greek

Sex, drugs, rock 'n' Apatow

Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, and Borat Sign On for Men in Black 3-D

The good news: After months of uncertainty from the Tommy Lee Jones half of Men in Black's brilliantly deadpan duo, Agent Kay is officially signed on for the third installment of what we're hoping will be the final film in the MIB trilogy. Will Smith has reportedly been on board for quite some time. ... More >>

The Acorn Tapes

Jerry Nadler, the nine-term congressman from Manhattan's West Side, stands up for the Constitution

Robert Frank's Real America

The photographer who changed the way we look at—and depict—ourselves.

KANSAS ON THE RIGHT

We're not in Borat anymore

Sacha Baron Cohen in Queerface for Brüno, Mumblecore Boys in Bed for Humpday

What kind of comedy is this?

Three Foreigners Who Made Baron Cohen's Brüno Possible

This Week's Voice: The Apollo's Salute to Michael Jackson, Maxwell, Sasha Baron Cohen's Bruno, Memoirs by Lydia Lunch and Reverend Jen, Bard's 'Consider the Lobster,' and More

Tina ChouIn this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla reports back live from the somewhat Michael Jackson-themed Amateur Night at the Apollo: "It is extraordinarily difficult to impersonate, mimic, or pay entirely reverent homage to Michael Jackson without coming across like you're makin ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: June 30 through July 7

Today in Unfortunate Tim Pawlenty Metaphors: Just Like Eminem, Republicans Need to Regroup

The album sales of Relapse may tell a different story, but these days, it seems like it's only the Republicans who really care what Eminem gets up to--from Bill O'Reilly's "feminist" outrage about the porning of Sarah Palin in "We Made You" to the amusing news (via Hotline on Call) that, at Friday n ... More >>

MTV Goes Back to the Eminem Gay Panic Well

Somehow it doesn't seem that likely that the MTV Movie Awards planning committee just happened to drop an in-character Sasha Baron Cohen (Bruno, coming soon!) balls-first onto an album-promoting, famously gay-hating Eminem, who, among other things, has only been one of the two or three most valuab ... More >>

Angels & Demons Has a Need for Speed

Anne Hathaway Fix Evaporates at Golden Globes

We weren't even going to mention the Golden Globes until we saw it on the front page of the New York Times -- who ever thought the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, once described as "100 stringers living off hors d'oeuvres," would gather such respect! -- but now we're duty-bound to mention tha ... More >>

Susan Orlean, David Remnick, Ethan Hawke, and Others Pick Their Favorite Obscure Books

On to Chapter Two! We ask another round of authors for recommendations.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Funniest of '08?

Perhaps, if you don't mind monkeying around

Nixonian Tumult Remembered in Chicago 10

The circus of the '60s, from the streets to the courtroom

'Color Me Kubrick'

'Nomad: The Warrior'

Let There Be Lite

Melt your winter heft with dosa, tea, and something nice 'n' stinky

Sarah Silverman Is My Kind of Cunt

Talking vaginas, retards, testicles, dicks, douchebags, and George W. Bush with the Comedy Central star

The Oscar Race Decoded!

Hoberman's Top 10

V For Violence

From Al Basrah to the AMC, 2006 meant war

Lee's Top 10

Only Disconnect

Places on the edge of language that the world can't strip away

Fallow Traveler

Pay attention to Sacha Baron Cohen's comic take on America. You might just something learn.

Toronto Confidential

Mob scenes and murders: An action-packed installment of an all-encompassing festival

Past Masters

A rich repertory selection saves the year for cinephiles

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

Exploring Secret Prisons

Journos Gone Wild

The newsroom mockumentary that dares to ask, 'How big are your testicles?'

Escape From Zoo York

The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie

NY Mirror

Bush Gone Wild