It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Sacha Baron Cohen – the man that gave the world such beloved characters as your mate’s drunken impersonation of Ali G, your mate’s drunken impersonation of Borat, and your mate’s drunken scene-stealing turn as Thénardier in Les Miserables. OK, probably not that last one.
And no doubt you’ve been asking why, oh universe, why. Fortunately Twitter has the answer you seek in the form of this teaser from SBC himself. Short answer: he’s been working on a secret film for the last little while and… look, watch for yourself.
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) July 8, 2018
Yes, that’s Iraq invasion architect Dick Cheney there, signing a waterboarding kit. Fun fact: there’s apparently such a thing as a waterboarding kit, just in case you assumed that people engaged in entirely illegal torture of prisoners were forced to improvise with whatever they had to hand.
Now, it’s worth pointing out that getting the former Vice President and, in a perfect world, convicted war criminal to sign an object of torture would have seemed shocking a few years ago but now seems adorably quaint since international governments, including our own, have decided to take a pick-n-mix approach to what once seemed like binding international agreements on human rights.
Again, this seems a whole lot less ridiculous now.
But in any case, Cohen is clearly going to wake up bound and gagged in a CIA black site any old tick of the clock.
Hell, Cheney shot a 78 year man in the face, and that guy was a Republican donor and personal friend. God only knows what he does to upstart foreigners that mock him in public. God, and also Amnesty International.
To that end… um, you’re still a total babe-magnet, Dick. Sorry for that war criminal remark.