Episode 683 - Sacha Baron Cohen

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

You know Borat. You know Bruno. You know Ali G. But you probably don’t know much about Sacha Baron Cohen. The man himself sits down with Marc in the garage to talk about what goes into bringing such rich comedic characters to life, why he was drawn to comedy in the first place, and what’s next, with his new movie The Brothers Grimsby on the horizon.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.7	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears.
0:14.5	Welcome to the show.
0:15.5	I am Mark Marren.
0:16.8	This is WTF, my podcast.
0:19.3	Thank you for joining.
0:20.7	I appreciate it.
0:22.4	I am excited about today's show, as you should be as well.
0:28.2	It's a pretty special show, my friends.
0:32.2	A pretty special show because you will listen to a conversation I had with Sasha Barron
0:39.0	Cohen, who does not do many public conversations, not out of character, and usually those are
0:44.9	short, but we talked for a long time.
0:48.4	It seemed like he was ready to talk about some stuff.
0:51.8	And it was pretty fascinating, man.
0:55.2	It was pretty fascinating.
0:56.4	I really didn't know what was going to happen.
0:58.2	I'm glad I had the opportunity to do it.
1:00.7	Apparently he was sort of defied or requested to do it by a friend of his in England.
1:10.6	Because he goes out when he has a movie coming out, which he does.
1:14.6	He does some stuff, but he usually does it as a character of some sort, or he's got a
1:23.2	stick, and not this time, people.
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