Some people hoped the satirist’s series would be the defining show of our age. Instead, it was just another Ali G – and never managed to worry anyone truly important
I have an apology to make. Last month, before a single episode had even aired, I went and claimed that Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? had “the potential to be nothing less than the defining television programme of our age”. And, now that the series is over, I would like to walk that statement back a little. Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America?, as if you needed to be told, was not the defining television programme of our age. Or any age.
Before we get to why, let me try to explain my weird breathlessness at the time. Although that line does read like the work of someone who really, really wants to be quoted on the back of a DVD box, I was so excited about Who Is America? when I first heard about it. Thanks to Baron Cohen’s initial announcement – a vaguely threatening video addressed to Donald Trump on Independence Day – I assumed that Who Is America? would be squarely targeted at the Trump administration.
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