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Sacha Baron Cohen (Showtime's Who Is America?) is taking a break from flaming close-minded political and societal big-wigs for his next project, the upcoming Netflix limited series The Spy. Written and directed by Emmy-winner Gideon Raff (Homeland, Tyrant) and set to premiere on September 6, the project is based on the life of legendary former […]

Actor/satirist Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Da Ali G Show) is riding into 2019's Primetime Emmy Awards with three nominations for his groundbreaking Showtime series Who Is America?: Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, as well as nods for directing and editing. Cohen and his series made more than a few headlines when the series first aired, with Cohen accused of not playing nice […]

Actor/satirist Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Da Ali G Show) is riding into 2019 as a Golden Globes nominee for "Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy" from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for his groundbreaking Showtime series Who Is America?. Cohen and his series have made a few headlines over the last several months, with Cohen accused of […]

Actor/satirist Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Da Ali G Show) picked up a 2019 Golden Globes nomination nod for "Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy" from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Thursday morning for his groundbreaking Showtime series Who Is America?. And in typical Baron Cohen fashion, he makes it a point […]

Direct from our home office in Austin, Texas, it's a look back at the week that was in late-night we call affectionately enough… BC's Late-Night Rewind! Election coverage and politics dominated this week, with our list reflecting that. Here's hoping this upcoming week will be back to our usual celebrity interviews, Jimmy Fallon playing children's […]

So the midterm elections of 2018 are kinda'-sorta' behind us (barring recounts, slow counts, etc.), and there are some positive and negative takeaways from what felt like two years of constant campaigning. The Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, while the GOP solidified their control of the Senate. Some see the elections as […]

Looks like someone really wasn't in on the joke… Controversial Alabama judge Roy Moore may have walked out of an interview/purported pedophile detector demonstration with Sacha Baron Cohen; but if Moore has his way, he'll be seeing the actor/satirist again – in court – to the tune of $95 million in damages. Moore has filed a lawsuit […]

Whatever Showtime spent to advertise and promote the Sunday night premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy/satire series Who Is America?, they need to get some of their money back. "Interviewees" Judge Roy Moore, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, and former vice president Dick Cheney have been […]

With Sacha Baron Cohen staring down the premiere of his new Showtime comedy series Who Is America? in less than four days, you would think he'd have his hands full promoting Sunday night's start. But the writer/director of the seven-episode series found time to respond to U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Facebook accusation that she was […]

Netflix has tapped actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Les Misérables) to bring the story of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen to life in their six-episode limited series The Spy. Written and directed by Gideon Raff (Prisoners of War), the series will debut globally on the streaming service outside of France; and on OCS in France. Legende Films and Alain Goldman […]

Repeating a novelty I last saw with Borat, Sony have pressed their DVD copies of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo to look like bootlegs burned onto DV-R. I thought Lisbeth would be such a digital fringe outlier that she'd more likely have some sort of handicam pirate copy torrented and stored on a USB […]

John Ford's the Iron Horse is coming soon to Masters of Cinema DVD and Blu-ray in a release befitting of such a cinema milestone, and bringing with it evidence that one of Wayne and Garth's most popular jokes has been around since at least 1924. Here are a series of stills and intertitles from the […]

I've had more than one conversation with Kazakhs who have point blank refused to believe Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat was anything other than a cruel and baseless their country. To my eye, the film's satire and irony is more than obvious, but it doesn't seem to have translated very well. Kazakh director Erkin Rakishev is planning an […]