There’s an apocryphal quote attributed to the late, great George Carlin: “It’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.”
Over the last three decades, Cohen has permeated global pop culture with a range of original characters. In particular, Ali G, his faux-streetwise cultural appropriator from Staines-upon-Thames, and Borat, his blundering Kazakh journalist, have helped drive cultural conversation, even as the work has provoked backlash in equal measure to laughter.
Inclined up until recently to let his characters speak for themselves, Cohen has generally taken the public’s response in stride,
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