A funny comedian

This week’s TIME magazine is featuring its annual topic “The Most Influential People in The World”. As I mentioned it in my past post “A Problem from Hell”, I have bought this feature every year, even looking forward to seeing who are in the list.

As one of my friends put it, it is true that the selection is completely based on American point of view, more specifically, American mainstream news media’s point of view. Who would say, except for American, that a couple of hopefuls for 2008 presidential campaign are the most influential people in THE WORLD? Who care the ace pitcher of New York Yankees? This guy named Chien-Ming Wang can’t be qualified, because, sure there are so many reasons for that, but first and foremost, Yankees couldn’t win what they dare to call “World Series” last year. Fair enough.

But it is also true that people on this list are nothing less than prominent figures in various fields, whether it is for good reason or for bad reason. (Let’s forget now about such a conundrum as “From whose point of views you can claim that it is good or bad”! I would just say, from the point of view of people with common sense, if I would be forced to say). Furthermore, I think that a variety of people on this lest, who are leading in respective genres to make a difference, could give you a glimpse of what kind of world we are living in now (see those who are listed such as Omar Hassan al-Bashir or Justin Timberlake), what kind of world we are heading for (see Steve Jobs or Al gore), and what kind of inspiring people we are still living with (see Michael J. Fox or Thierry Henry).

But, the most remarkable figure here among one hundred people is Sacha Baron Cohen. I am very happy that he could bask in such a world-wide attention, because he is tremendously funny. There won’t be any need to explain who he is if you are from Europe, America, or Australia, but he is not so famous here in Japan. So I will hope that people in Japan come to know this entertaining prodigy through either TIME magazine or my blog. He is an English comedian, noted for his comical impersonation of Ali G (a white rapper), or Borat (a sexist and anti-Semitic, but somehow lovable Kazakhstan reporter). But, a picture is worth a thousand words, so, Buyakasha!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNfSQA6ZRsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZlJiOvXsU