A camel-cade fit for a dictator: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Dictator parades through the Big Apple on a hump-back

Mike Larkin Daily Mail 06/19/2011 21:28

ZZ Top man: Baron Cohen's beard drew admiring glances

They said a dictator would never march in America. But Sacha Baron Cohen proved them wrong when he paraded through the streets of New York on top of a camel yesterday. But there was no need for anyone to get the hump, as the funnyman was in character for his upcoming film The Dictator.

Hail: Sacha Baron Cohen salutes the crowd as he filmed upcoming movie The Dictator in New York yesterday

The 39-year-old comedian wore a Saddam Hussein-inspired costume and gave one-handed salutes as he rode.

An onlooker said: 'Even by the standards of New York, that is not something you see every day.

'The only thing more impressive than the camel was Baron Cohen’s ridiculous beard.

ZZ Top man: Baron Cohen's beard drew admiring glances

'The whole get up was hilarious, and we are all looking forward to seeing how the film turns out.’

The Dictator shares more than a few similarities with classic Charlie Chaplin 1940 movie The Great Dictator, which was a biting satire on Nazi Germany.

In Chaplin’s movie, a Jewish barber who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Hitler pastiche Phooey Hynkel, ends up being mistaken for the Fuhrer.

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