Sacha Baron Cohen told The Hollywood Reporter this week that his new movie, "Ali G: Who Iz I?," is the last guerrilla comedy he will ever make. No more Borat. No more Bruno. No more Ali G.
He has said this before. He said it before the 2020 Borat sequel, and he said it louder after. At this point the retirement announcement is the franchise, and it gets renewed more often than Grey's Anatomy.
This one comes with a medical chart. Cohen described the film's finale as "an eight-hour continuous scene that takes place over 12 locations," shot as one continuous take in the desert. "There's gunfire in it. There's a medical procedure. There are drones, there are explosions," he said.
That's not a comedy ending. That's a Fast and Furious sequel that forgot to hire a stunt double.
He did it in a prosthetic head and a fat suit. On the way to the shoot, he said, a veteran stuntman warned him he would be "so dehydrated you'll be in hospital for two weeks." Most of us get that warning from a group chat before a bachelor party in Scottsdale. Cohen got it from a professional and kept driving.
So he hired help. Not a writer, not a script doctor. He hired "an endurance specialist who does the Tour de France" to stand next to him during filming. Hollywood has officially reached the point where a fart-joke movie needs the same support staff as a 2,000-mile bike race, and the bike race has better catering.
It didn't fully work. Cohen told the outlet "a number of people went to the hospital for dehydration." Somewhere a crew member is explaining to an ER nurse that he's in for heat exhaustion from a movie where a gadget fires bullets out of a man's rear end, and the nurse is nodding like that's the third one today.
Cohen also gave the deep reason for coming back. He said he made the film because he is "terrified of where our society is headed," and wanted to "show the extremism on both sides of the political spectrum." He added that he also "wanted to make the funniest film that's ever been made."
So the mission statement is save democracy, mock both parties, and cure dehydration, in 90 minutes, with a rapper character from 2000. That's not a movie pitch. That's a Bachelor contestant saying she's here for the right reasons while packing three suitcases of hair extensions.
And because it's 2026, the film arrived with its own outrage tour. THR reports a boycott campaign is already underway, complete with accusations of an outdated caricature and cultural appropriation, which happens to be the actual plot of the movie. The internet got cast as the villain and showed up without reading the script. Method acting, but free.
Cohen insists he "will never do a scene if I think I'm actually going to die." Good news for his family. Mild news for the bodyguards.
The film opened in theaters Oct. 23 and heads to Amazon Prime Video after that, which means millions of Americans will soon watch the most physically dangerous comedy ever made from a couch, eating chips, completely hydrated.
So enjoy the farewell tour, everyone. It's the final season, again, and this time he has the IV bags to prove it.
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