Sacha Baron Cohen retiring Borat and Ali G

[G. Sean Peters]

NEW YORK - Borat is dead.
 
Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G.

"When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them, so admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing," the 36-year-old actor-comedian says in the British newspaper's Friday edition.

"It is like saying goodbye to a loved one. It is hard, and the problem with success, although it's fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I `get' with Borat again, so it's a kind of self-defeating form, really."

Baron Cohen brought Borat Sagdiyev — an anti-Semitic buffoon in search of Pamela Anderson — to the masses last year with his smash comedy, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." He first introduced the character on "Da Ali G Show," which was carried in the U.S. on HBO.

"It's much easier for me to be in character and it's a lot more fun," he says. "If I'd done the entire promotional campaign for (the `Borat' movie) as myself it wouldn't have developed in the same way."

Baron Cohen — not Borat — can be seen as a singing barber in Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd," co-starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

His spokesman, Matt Labov, did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages by The Associated Press seeking comment on the "deaths" of Borat and Ali G.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071221/ap_en_tv/people_sacha_baron_cohen

[daWappla]

He will continue living on the dub. Borat where are you?!

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Damn...I thought there would for sure be a sequel with the success of the first.

[daWappla]

Doesn´t he plan on releasing a movie with that gay fashion designer character?

[Lunatic]

Doesn´t he plan on releasing a movie with that gay fashion designer character?

yea he is workin on it now
guess that's why it didn't say he's retiring bruno

[Machiavelli]

yeah well i mean borat and ali G wouldnt be the same since their household names, so it wouldnt trick anyone again(at least most people)...but those were classic characters, some of the funniest shit ive seen in my life. Cant wait for this Bruno film

[Lunatic]

^exactly the best part bout ali g and borat was the fact that ppl didn't know the character...not funny no more

[K.Dub]

Damn, that's a shame. Borat was fuckin funny movie!
I still laugh as much as I did the first time I saw it..

[MontrealCity's Most]

Is he doing a Bruno movie?

[Don Jacob]

even if he found a way to keep borat funny with people knowing the real story behind him.....the character would have to "die" eventually, just given the nature of the character and the unknown.

[K.Dub]

RIP Borat & Ali G

[Raphael]

RIP

[TRG]

lookin forward to bruno

"Nicht Nicht" lol

[MontrealCity's Most]

I ahted when the movie came out everyne was trying to do the voice. So fucking annoying.

[Lunatic]

Is he doing a Bruno movie?

yep