Sacha Baron Cohen Exposes America
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Comedy legend Sacha Baron Cohen goes deep on all of the crazy things that happened during the filming of his Showtime series ‘Who Is America?’—including truly incredible stories about his interactions with Sarah Palin, O.J. Simpson, Ben Carson and more. He also talks about interviewing Donald Trump as Ali G. and reveals some big secrets behind his classic film ‘Borat.’
This episode was recorded in front live audience as part of the SAG Conversations series at the SAG-Aftra Foundation in Los Angeles.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrek Tsahir, my name, Colonel Eran Morad. |
| 0:03.5 | I am the terrorist terminator. |
| 0:06.0 | In America, there is big problem of shootings in schools. |
| 0:11.0 | The NRA want to arm the teachers. |
| 0:15.0 | This is crazy. |
| 0:17.0 | They should be arming the children. |
| 0:19.0 | Yala, let go. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:30.1 | We have a very special treat for all of you on today's show. |
| 0:34.5 | A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from someone on Sasha Baron Cohen's team, |
| 0:42.2 | asking me if I was interested in interviewing him in front of a live audience as part of the SAG Conversation series at the Screen Actors Guild Foundation in LA. |
| 0:46.8 | I'd been trying to get an interview with Sasha since his Showtime series Who's America premiered last July, so I jumped at the opportunity to ask him as many questions as I could |
| 0:51.8 | about what it was like to put together one of my favorite |
| 0:54.5 | shows of the past year. I wasn't sure what to expect since Sasha almost never does interviews |
| 0:59.5 | as himself and rarely makes public appearances like this one. But as you'll hear in this interview, |
| 1:04.3 | he arrived amped up and ready to get into all of it. He was getting up out of his chair to act |
| 1:09.5 | things out that happened during filming, |
| 1:11.6 | doing character voices, and playing hard with the crowd, which included his wife, Ila Fisher, |
| 1:16.3 | who sat in the front row laughing and or shaking her head for much of our conversation. |
| 1:20.7 | This one is a little different than our regular episodes in The Last Laugh, but it was so much |
| 1:24.7 | fun that I really wanted to share it with you guys. So now let's listen to my conversation with Sasha Baron Cohen in front of a very lively |
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