It will be near impossible to touch Borat as far as the genius he stumbled into while skewering an entire culture’s ingrained flaws, but at least Sascha Baron Cohen is finding time to confuse hummus with Hamas when interviewing victims for his latest outing as Bruno.
The British born, Cambridge-educated, 37-year-old actor, who took what Christopher Guest started with Spinal Tap to hysterically offensive, interactive new heights, managed to dupe a former Mossad (i.e. badass Israeli secret service) agent while masquerading as his gay, Austrian alter-ego.
“What’s the connection between a political movement and food,” Bruno asks at one point.
Universal ponied up some serious dough for Bruno based on Borat’s success – hopefully they get some headier satire in the process. (Unfair knock; Cohen’s below interview of hapless meatheads spring-breaking on Daytona Beach ranks up there with just about anything he ever pulled off as Borat).