Sacha Baron Cohen (Live)

The Last Laugh

The Daily Beast

Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Interviews, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Tv, Movies, Film

4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 59 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 on May 21, 2019.

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0:00.0	Happy New Year, everyone, and live from Los Angeles, it's Sasha Baron Cohen.
0:06.0	This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:10.0	For this New Year's week, we are listening back to a live conversation I had with Sasha Baron Cohen
0:16.0	at the SAG After Foundation earlier this year.
0:19.0	We mostly talked about his incredible Showtime series, Who is America?
0:23.5	But Sasha also mentioned that he had a new show coming out called The Spy.
0:27.9	Since then, that show has premiered on Netflix and earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
0:32.7	This episode also contains probably my favorite story any guest has ever told about the time Sasha tried
0:39.1	to interview Dr. Ben Carson and got chased out of his hotel by the Secret Service.
0:44.8	Now that 2019 is just about over, I would love to know who you want to hear on The Last
0:49.6	Laugh in 2020. Please let me know by leaving a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and I will do my
0:55.8	absolute best to get them in the studio soon.
0:59.3	All right.
1:00.1	Let's go to my live conversation with the man himself, Sasha Barron Cohen.
1:13.6	Good evening. Thank you for coming.
1:15.6	Thank you for coming.
1:17.6	My wife is here. She snuck in.
1:24.6	So, Sasha, the first time that we all caught wind of this show was only about a week before
1:32.8	it started airing.
1:33.8	I think it was around July 4th last year.
1:36.7	At that point, how long had you been working on this show?
1:40.8	It'd been close to two years. Wow. Actually.
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