Sacha Baron Cohen Appears As The Dictator On Australian Morning TV (VIDEO)

Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 3/05/2012 11:20 Updated: 3/05/2012 11:43

Just in case you hadn't realised - despite his all-guns-blazing marketing campaign and unfortunate accident with Kim Jong-il's ashes and Ryan Seacrest - Sacha Baron Cohen is back with another highly controversial comedy film, The Dictator.

In it, the man who would be Borat, Bruno and Ali G plays the ruthless, sexist, racist, incredibly rich ruler of the fictional country of Wadiya in north east Africa, who goes on a trip to New York where things, as they often do, go horribly wrong.

You can check out the trailer for the film here, but before you do, you've got to watch this incredibly awkward interview he carried out with Australian morning TV show Today, which no doubt had dozens of Aussie grannies spitting out their cereal spoons as Admiral General Aladeen propositions host Lisa Wilkinson over and over and over.

As Baron Cohen says himself in the clip above - while still in character, of course - "Breakfast TV - what did you have me on?"

To be honest, we were wondering the same thing, though perhaps not quite with the same syntax. Still, if you fancy some more Baron Cohen-based silliness, here's our video gallery of his finest comic moments below.

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Just in case you hadn't realised - despite his all-guns-blazing marketing campaign and unfortunate accident with Kim Jong-il's ashes and Ryan Seacrest - Sacha Baron Cohen is back with another highly c...
Just in case you hadn't realised - despite his all-guns-blazing marketing campaign and unfortunate accident with Kim Jong-il's ashes and Ryan Seacrest - Sacha Baron Cohen is back with another highly c...
 
 
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trweste144
never one for moderation...
11:41 PM on 05/04/2012
Andy Kaufman's ghost finally found someone worthy to carry his torch. The hosts were good sports. You can't be too sensitive--it's obvious he's being ironic, especially since he has Jewish background.
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George McAulay
Delighted to meet you
07:31 PM on 05/04/2012
I disliked him intensely until I understood his humour

A very, very talented and funny man
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vividrick
I came, I saw...I had a cup of tea!
02:33 PM on 05/03/2012
Lol, I bet Mel Gibson would love to be 'head of race relations' right now.
02:15 PM on 05/03/2012
Just like Brand?. Not funny at all.
01:59 PM on 05/03/2012
Love it!
Gonna see the film, if only for the audiences reaction to what will no doubtedly be near-the-knuckle (and knuckle-breaking) jokes.... worse than what has appeared in his interviews!
Same sense of humour we have in the military! Classic!
01:58 PM on 05/03/2012
This isn't humour... it's crass rubbish.
Whatever happened to family comedy... good clean fun?
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trweste144
never one for moderation...
11:38 PM on 05/04/2012
Why does everything have to be just that? Carlin wasn't. Pryor wasn't. Cohen is playing a villain. The Dictator is the Wario to Borat's Mario. I think that he targets the Geo-political theme of psychotic dictators in a poignant albeit crass way. He's doing the same thing Andy Kaufman did. You can't fault his quick wit.
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edmurfin
Old man, on Bonus Time:-)
06:50 AM on 05/05/2012
Indeed, trweste. Bill Hicks would have loved him!