Comedy and celebrity, sometimes, don't work well together. As soon as a
comedian gets on the TV then that's his/her act used up; the set is old jokes.
Before TV and a comedian could get one set to last over a year doing isolated
stand-up gigs. That's why many comedians' longevity has been scuppered after
they got 'famous'.
It is an even bigger problem for those candid comedians whose material comes
from undercover work: Dennis Pennis, Brass Eye and Trigger Happy TV are a few of
the casualties of popularity. Now Sacha Baron Cohen faces that problem with
Borat.
The humour derived from people not knowing Borat is a fictional character
loses its edge after an international box office hit film, two Golden Globes,
threats of violence and death, and a nation threatening legal action. So Cohen
is prepared to say farewell to the naïve reporter from Kazakhstan.
He said, “I think it will probably be impossible to do Borat again. I think
the days of me going undercover are probably over."
Well, they'll maybe be over after completion of the £22M film deal that will
feature his gay, Austrian fashion designer, Bruno. Get that hate mail ready,
steady, ...
