Who is America? season 2 not happening, Sacha Baron Cohen confirms

'It’s like The Ali G Show in England. I did one season'

Sacha Baron Cohen as Erran in Who is America? (Gavin Bond/Showtime/Channel 4)

Sacha Baron Cohen has confirmed there will be no second season of Who is America?.

“No,” the actor and comedian replied to The Hollywood Reporter when asked. "I will never be able to get a politician to bare his buttocks while screaming ‘God bless America!’ and screaming the N-word.”

Cohen added that he does not have any other characters ready for a second season, adding: “It’s like The Ali G Show in England. I did one season. And the idea is not to make it a Seinfeld or a Saturday Night Live.”

David Nevins, the head of Showtime (the US network that commissioned the series), previously told reporters he was ”dying” to bring Who Is America? back to television screens.

The seven-episode series, filmed in secret, aired earlier this year and saw Cohen take on multiple aliases to trick politicians into saying absurd things. They included former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, who autographed a “waterboarding kit” for Cohen’s character Erran Morad, an Israeli anti-terrorism expert with an apparent taste for torture and other extreme methods.

“Looking back at it, I think he felt happy and almost excited to sit in a room next to my character because I had done the one thing that he hadn’t actually done,” Cohen recently said of Cheney.

“He’d ordered people to be killed but he never actually killed someone with his bare hands. In his mind, I was a guy who’d killed a lot of people. It’s a bit like a virgin sitting next to a womaniser and being enamoured by them. I think he had a kind of man crush on me, on my character.”