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Sacha Baron Cohen's Dictator Jokes About The Queen In Recent Trailer

The Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 26/04/2012 13:40 Updated: 26/04/2012 13:40

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial The Dictator is causing more of a stir as it directs jokes towards Queen Elizabeth.

In the film's most most recent trailer, Cohen - dressed as General Aladeen, leader of the fictional Republic of Wadiya - looks straight into the camera and addresses the Queen directly:

“I would like to congratulate your dictatoress Elizabeth on her blood diamond jubilee and I hope it is a smooth transition when her son Charles eventually kills her and seizes power.”

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Earlier this year Cohen caused controversy as he turned up at the Oscars dressed as General Aladeen flanked by two women in military dress. The star clutched an urn - which he claimed to hold the late Kim Jong-Il’s ashes - before spilling them over an unsuspecting Ryan Seacreast.

Anyone else think the star has taken things a little too far?

Watch Cohen spill 'ashes' over Ryan Seacreast at the Oscars


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Ben Wilson
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02:34 PM on 04/27/2012
Who's making this storm in a tea cup? We know next to nothing about this new character but we know enough to assume it's well within context. In the previous trailer we heard and saw the 'killing the person above you to get power joke' twice. More fool me for getting sucked into this story and provoked enough to reply! A publicity stunt perhaps?
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king53
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09:03 AM on 04/27/2012
Cheap, pathetic comments and publicity stunts are the mark of a bad comedian. He has to reinvent himself to cling onto his "celebrity" status. His Ali G character was just a modern version of Al Jolsen, who made his money doing a parody of a black man, now deemed offensive. He sums up all that is wrong with this country. It appears a lot of his followers are part of the tiresome, denigrate everything British alliance. People of his ilk should leave this country if they hate it so much. Good riddance.
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oneilleddieeddie
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07:47 PM on 04/28/2012
ooh.. get you.........is it cause' i black..lol
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oneilleddieeddie
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07:53 PM on 04/28/2012
Cheap, pathetic comments and not being able to spell al jolson are the mark of someone without a sense of humour.
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king53
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11:28 PM on 04/28/2012
Mine was a typing error, while you omitted capital letters for the start of the names. Touche ! ! ! !
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richfrompreston
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08:55 AM on 04/27/2012
do all Royal families not start out as dictators?
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RoboRon
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08:10 AM on 04/27/2012
British people in general couldn't give a monkeys about the queen or the royals, but we care even less about this geezer.
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Mac Howard
Thank god we got convicts, you got the puritans
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05:35 AM on 04/27/2012
I don't think many Brits who come to huffpost will be offended by this. You may find outrage at the Daily Telegraph maybe but not here.
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jonny dipstick
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03:21 AM on 04/27/2012
I loved Borat! I went to it with a few friends and got drunk in there. We were the only ones in the theater and I've never laughed so hard. Then my friend stepped in puke.
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Philip1win
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10:27 PM on 04/26/2012
Bet Prince Philip, Charles & Harry can't wait to see the premiere! Unlike, what that enema Simon Cowell comes up with from BGT!
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mmartini54
Roll on 2015!
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09:06 PM on 04/26/2012
No, not too far at all. I'm looking forward to seeing this, I hope it's as funny as Borat.
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Steve Lane
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07:21 PM on 04/26/2012
Both those comments from "General Aladeen" are almost traditional in many royal families.
Earlier British Royals Could have shown Saddam a trig or two in murderous ruthlessness.
Of court Q Liz is just a sweet old lady who wouldn't hurt a fly and Charles doesn't have it in him even if he wanted to off his dear old mum.
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katocat
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06:05 PM on 04/26/2012
"I hope it is a smooth transition when her son Charles eventually kills her and seizes power"

I thought it was funny.
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teknoblade3442
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04:09 PM on 04/26/2012
pretty much every comedian has made the same joke in one form or another
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Jonathan van der Berg
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04:00 PM on 04/26/2012
Its not a big deal. Its comedy. His funny rant at the Queen should be taken that way although I suspect people like Gaddafi actually thought of the Queen in that way. Or at least we thought he thought that way.
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lendmeanear
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02:53 PM on 04/26/2012
I guess he wont be getting knighted.
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ThinkCreeps
Seriously, it's time.
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09:46 AM on 04/27/2012
Is it because ee is black?
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alanps
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02:49 PM on 04/26/2012
Don't find him funny. I did back in the Ali G days, but personally find his films just go to the lowest possible denominator.
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trailerguy
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06:00 PM on 04/28/2012
i never saw th humour in Ali G. he seems to pick on stereotypes other than his own. he hs to porttray a jewish character, instead gay, ir middleeast etc. Althugh i did find some of his humour funny showing the prejudices of people, although some was later found out to be staged
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melanielpc
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02:46 PM on 04/26/2012
Love him.
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