01 / Characters · 05 of 07
Erran Morad
An Israeli anti-terror expert who got American lawmakers to endorse the absurd on camera.
2018
02 / Who he is
Colonel Erran Morad is an Israeli anti-terrorism expert, square-jawed and deadpan, who speaks with total authority about weapons and believes small children should be armed. He was made for Who Is America?, the 2018 Showtime series that returned Sacha to hidden-camera work a decade after Brüno, this time behind prosthetics thick enough to fool people who had seen every film. Morad is played entirely straight. He claims to have been in the Mossad and insists, every time, that he was not. The comedy, and the consequences, came from how far the people across the table were prepared to follow him.
Character file
- Full name
- Erran Morad
- Nationality
- Israeli
- Occupation
- Israeli anti-terrorism/security expert
- Marital status
- Married (wife unnamed)
- Clearance
- Redacted
- Handler
- Redacted
03 / The reel
Best of Erran Morad
How far some elected officials would go on camera when they believed they were talking to a security expert, including endorsing a fictional programme to arm young children.
Clip, 2018, SHOWTIME
Kinder Guardians (Erran Morad)
Serving and former congressmen endorse Kinder Guardians, a programme to arm children from the age of three.
Clip, 2018, SHOWTIME
Erran Morad with Jason Spencer
Georgia state representative Jason Spencer takes an anti-terror training that ended his career.
Clip, 2018, SHOWTIME
Erran Morad interviews Roy Moore
Roy Moore is shown a device that Morad says can detect sex offenders.
- On YouTube, fromSacha Baron Cohen
Clip, 2018, Sacha Baron Cohen
Erran Morad teaches Daniel Roberts how to survive a beheading
A beheading-survival lesson, from Sacha's own channel.
04 / Where he appeared
Where he appeared
- 2018Who Is America?Showtime, seven episodes
05 / On the record
Notable moments
Trent Lott, Joe Wilson, Dana Rohrabacher and Joe Walsh endorse Kinder Guardians on camera in the first episode.
Dick Cheney signs a 'waterboard kit', which is auctioned for Amnesty International.
Jason Spencer resigns from the Georgia House of Representatives three days after his episode airs.
06 / Honours
Awards and accolades
Who Is America? brought two Primetime Emmy nominations in 2019, for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and for Directing, and a Golden Globe nomination for Sacha as Best Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy.