Plus, you know, sexy time explosions
So Sacha Baron Cohen, the genius(?) behind Borat, is in the new Will Ferrell movie. The CBC has a decent review up, but it's really worth it for the best concise description of Baron Cohen's talents I've read, emphasis mine:
[He's] a marvel, a brave comedian who doesn’t mind extinguishing his own persona and even his face — what does he look like, really? — for the joke; he may be more like Peter Sellers than any other actor of his generation. He also plays with sexuality in a way that American comedians rarely dare. His gay characters aren’t just lisping and limp-wrested, inviting you to laugh from the outside; they are wholly confrontational. Girard uses actual sex talk — many, maybe too many, erection mentions — and yet lands on this side of funny, as opposed to juvenile, because he is so casual, so understated. If Ferrell seems audacious for exposing his lumpy body to comic effect, Cohen ups him by erasing his body altogether.
[He's] a marvel, a brave comedian who doesn’t mind extinguishing his own persona and even his face — what does he look like, really? — for the joke; he may be more like Peter Sellers than any other actor of his generation. He also plays with sexuality in a way that American comedians rarely dare. His gay characters aren’t just lisping and limp-wrested, inviting you to laugh from the outside; they are wholly confrontational. Girard uses actual sex talk — many, maybe too many, erection mentions — and yet lands on this side of funny, as opposed to juvenile, because he is so casual, so understated. If Ferrell seems audacious for exposing his lumpy body to comic effect, Cohen ups him by erasing his body altogether.
