Sacha Baron Cohen Now
Cohen is best known for the fictional satirical characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard, and Admiral General Aladeen, which he created and portrayed. For his personas, he uses a variety of dialects and guises, and he interacts with unsuspecting people who are unaware that they have been set up. He received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2012 British Comedy Awards, which he accepted in character as Ali G. In 2013, he was honored with the BAFTA Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Comedy Excellence. He was rated one of the top 30 living comedians by The New York Times in 2018. He has also starred in dramatic films including Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011), Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables (2012), and Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).
Sacha Baron Cohen Now
Ben Stiller Then
Stiller wrote and performed as a featured artist on Saturday Night Live in 1989. He left after four episodes since the show didn’t want him to make any more short films. He then created Elvis Stories, a short film about a fictitious tabloid reporting on recent Elvis Presley sightings. Friends and co-stars John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Mike Myers, Andy Dick, and Jeff Kahn appeared in the picture. The film was a blockbuster, and he went on to make the MTV short film Going Back to Brooklyn, which was a music video starring comedian Colin Quinn that imitated LL Cool J’s recent hit “Going Back to Cali.”
Ben Stiller Then
