![]() Judge Jessie has a new show a man waits for his job interview two ladies catch up over drinks the valets discuss Val Kilmer a retired military specialist is briefed on a new project a woman introduces her fiancé to her parents.Ī politician denies sending lewd photos a detective interrogates a rapper Cedric and Levi find lightning in a bottle two Southern gentlemen compliment women Jordan runs into an old friend a cop takes things literally. Neil deGrasse Tyson relaxes at home Keegan endures a job interview a tailor has a gassy client the valets discuss “Game of Thrones” a new strategy for telemarketing. Whether it's satirizing the President, spoofing Nazis, or ordering up some soul food, "Key & Peele" will showcase their chemistry, camaraderie and unique point of view, born from their shared background and experiences growing up biracial in a not quite post-racial world. In this new series these fresh, relevant comedic actor-writers, used to being on the outside looking in, will examine life in a provocative and irreverent way, through a combination of filmed sketches and live stage segments. We’ll see when “The Dictator” opens May 11, 2012.Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele present "Key & Peele," an original sketch-comedy show coming to Comedy Central in 2012. What do you think? Is Cohen’s comedy evolving? Or is it inevitable that he move on from this sort of thing because there’s only so many times he can pull this sort of thing off? Reilly, a hint of what we can expect from the Dictator himself, and that’s it. We get a little Ben Kingsley, a little John C. We also don’t see Anna Faris, who’s the female lead in the film. If I’m not mistaken, though, this is also a “Prince and the Pauper” riff, with Cohen playing a second role as a lowly goatherd who gets mistaken for the Dictator, and we don’t really see any of that in the trailer. But to be the guy who sort of nurtures the entire thing into fruition with a small team of collaborators… the stakes are much higher, and I think it’s important for that reason that this one really connect. If he’s an actor for hire, a guy who steps into projects and brings his undeniable talent to bear on the problem of bringing other people’s words to life, I’m sure he could make a very nice career of that. The question is whether this is what the public wants from him, and whether or not Cohen’s going to continue in the career of self-generating comedy character machine, which can be really difficult for any actor to pull off over time. The notion of playing an insane and terrifying dictator as the hero of a comedy is outrageous enough that I’m willing to bet Charles and Cohen and their co-writers Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer had plenty of material to choose from. ![]() I liked him a lot in “Hugo,” and I’m excited to see what he does with the character of Scotty in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.” The things I’ve heard about the work he’s been doing on the Freddie Mercury film he’s been trying to get made gives me real hope that it’s going to be something special.Īnd in the meantime, he’s back to big broad character comedy, and he’s working with Larry Charles again, and it seems like they’re moving away from the gotcha thing into a sort of bumping-up-against-reality situational comedy. Lately, he’s been taking roles in other people’s movies, and he’s doing very good work. What makes me respect Cohen’s work isn’t the “gotcha” element of springing something on an unsuspecting person, but rather the depth of character work he does in creating these comic personas. ![]() And while I think it’s a very funny film, I also think there’s only so far you can go in ambush comedy. With “Bruno,” there was an entirely different set of expectations placed on the film and its performance, and it was harder for Cohen to shoot because people were aware of him and aware of his techniques. They turned it into a moment where you had to see what it was, even if you didn’t want to, just so you could be part of the conversation. He’d been building up to that moment for a while, and 20th Century Fox did everything right in releasing the film. I have a feeling “The Dictator” is going to be an important movie for Sacha Baron Cohen.
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