Listen: 1 Hour 40 Minute Marc Maron Talk With Sacha Baron Cohen About 'Grismby,' Confrontational Comedy, And More

Love him or loathe him: Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t going anywhere. His new film “The Brothers Grimsby,” which is set to open in the U.S. on March 11th, is not a scathing satirical mockumentary like “Borat” or “Bruno” —early reviews indicate that it is similar to 2012’s “The Dictator,” i.e. a broad, goofy farce possessing only faint flickers of socio-political commentary.

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As silly as many of his characters are, Cohen puts a lot of work into their creation, and often puts himself in physical danger. That’s just one of the many fascinating points that the comic visionary discusses in a new talk with Marc Maron for his “WTF” Podcast. He talks about the many setbacks he endured while making “Borat” (“The FBI started following us. They got so many calls saying there was a terrorist… in an ice cream van”), how his Jewish identity shaped his comedy, his time studying...