BORAT WRITER: DO THIS TO GET NOTICED | Dan Mazer | Ali G | Sacha Baron Cohen | Comedy Writing Tips

'Sacha Baron Cohen and I started doing Ali G and Borat and there was nothing like it at the time.

We did something that broke through because it was different. It made a noise and felt radical.

That's what helps you get noticed.

Writing a thing that's a bit like the thing that was just popular is a fool's errand, I think.' - Dan Mazer (Ali G, Borat, Bridget Jones's Baby)

Dan's latest directing credit is The Exchange (2021), about an awkward teenager Tim (Ed Oxenbould), who hopes to find friendship with a French exchange student Stéphane (played by Avan Jogia). He discovers that the student is not as sophisticated and cultured as he assumed.

Written by Tim Long ("The Simpsons," "Late Show with David Letterman").

THE EXCHANGE is out in theaters and on VOD and on Digital July 30, 2021.

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