Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen plans 'big' stunt for launch of new film The Dictator

 
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Alistair Foster11 May 2012

He is known for his outrageous stunts, and today the organisers of the world premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film The Dictator promised something "big".

The event takes place at Royal Festival Hall next Thursday when the comedian will be in character as his latest alter-ego,

The Dictator is the Cambridge-educated comedian’s fourth film, which he says will “tell the story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.”

A spokesman for the film said: “Even we haven’t been told what Sacha is planning but I’m sure it will be big – it always is.”

It comes as the BBC refused to have Cohen as a guest on a number of high-profile TV and radio shows. His character has been banned from programmes including The Graham Norton Show, The One Show, Newsnight and The Andrew Marr Show.

He said: “While I am a huge admirer of state-sponsored censorship, the BBC banning me from their meagre channels is an outrage. Why are they victimising little old me?”

A BBC spokesman replied: “Our chat shows thrive on the spontaneous banter between guests and the presenter, something you don’t get when people come on as characters. We’d love to have Sacha on as himself.”

The 40-year-old creator of Ali G, Borat and Bruno is famed for his outrageous antics. At this year’s Oscars he was escorted from the red carpet after he claimed to be pouring the ashes of dead Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il on a US TV host.

In 2009, he attended the MTV Video Music Awards as colourful style guru Bruno, to promote his film of the same name.

During the show he was lowered from the ceiling into the lap of Eminem, planting his bare backside in front of the US rap star’s horrified face. Eminem stormed out - although it was later reported he had been in on the joke.

In an apparent joke about his sexist character Borat, he attended his own 2006 premiere in a wagon pulled by four “wenches”.

And appearing as Ali G in a 2000 interview with former MP Neil Hamilton, Cohen offered what he claimed was cannabis to the politician.

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