"If he had a whiff of Islam about him, we thought people would be afraid to challenge him."-One of the producers of the brilliant "Da Ali G Show," quoted in the profile of creator Sacha Baron Cohen in last month's Vanity Fair.
Also in the piece- a story about how Cohen, while filming a segment as Kazakh filmmaker Borat, was caught pretending to masturbate in a tent and threatened with arrest by Arizona state police, and STILL never broke character. The current SNL cast members, who can't get through a feeble-minded five-minute sketch without giggling, could stand to learn a thing or two from his example.
Posted by Stephen Silver at August 9, 2004 12:16 AM