SACHA BARON COHEN
LARRY CHARLES SAYS: ''I see Sacha as a sort of love child of Andy Kaufman and Charlie Chaplin, really. And maybe Alexis de Tocqueville, too. But then I see lots of traces of other satirists in him. Not that these are conscious imitations by Sacha, or that he's even aware of how many other comedic minds he seems to have absorbed and embraced.... He's like the synthesis of a lot of satirical strands. He's found a way to be scathing and lovable at the same time. He may wind up having the most pervasive influence on the culture of any comedian working now, because he disarms people and gets them to consider their beliefs before they know what's happening. That is how you change people's minds about things.''
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