Series Review
The joke's on Sacha Baron Cohen in satirical series 'Who is America?'
The public's diminishing sense of shame leaves funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen little to play against in his new mockumentary series about Americans in the Trump era
It's been 14 years since Sacha Baron Cohen's last television prankster appearance in the final season of Da Ali G show, which introduced the US to the comedian's alter egos - rudeboy rapper Ali G, Kazakhstani cultural correspondent Borat and exuberantly camp fashionista Bruno.
After a successful feature outing for Borat in 2006 and a more mixed one for Brüno in 2009, Baron Cohen retreated from the real-life comedy that had made his name and produced two middling, irritatingly juvenile and determinedly lowest-common-denominator films, The Dictator (2013) and The Brothers Grimsby (2016).
In the 14 years since he retired Ali G, the world - and the US in particular - have become increasingly gobsmacking in their lack of shame or irony in public pronouncements and official actions.
WATCH | The teaser trailer forWho Is America?..
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