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Whether he is "our generation's Peter Sellers", as his friend and admirer Madonna put it, or merely a very gifted character comedian, there is no doubt that Sacha Baron Cohen has, through his alter ego Ali G, become one of the most famous and admired comedy actors of today.

He was born on 13th October 1971 in London, and attended Haberdasher's Aske's School, where he was a near-contemporary of the Little Britain star Matt Lucas. After reading History at Cambridge, he discovered that his niche was in comedy, and made his debut appearance in the Jack Dee and Jeremy Hardy show Jack and Jeremy's Police 4 (Channel 4, 1995).

However, his rise to fame was precisely linked with his creation of Ali G on The 11 O'Clock Show (Channel 4, 1998), where he would interview unsuspecting public figures in the guise of a streetwise (although not that streetwise), ethnically challenged young man, given to malapropisms along the lines of asking the former BBFC director James Ferman why