Thursday Night Video – Sacha Baron Cohen visits Jon Stewart as The Dictator

On Monday, Sacha Baron Cohen visited Jon Stewart in character, which is his traditional preference when doing a publicity tour. As he explained to Howard Stern later in the week, he figures that more people are drawn to see a project if they like his performance, rather than if they’re interested in his life. I’m a bit wary of The Dictator because I’m a fan of Cohen making disturbances in “real life” and wonder if he can have the same sort of satire with a scripted film, but I like what I saw on The Daily Show, which was mostly silly, but had some moments of subversive.