Dan Mazer

Daniel Gideon Mazer born 4 October 1971 is a British director screenwriter producer and comedian He is best known as comedian Sacha Baron Cohens longtime writing and production partner who worked with him on his three unorthodox characters Ali G Borat and Brüno He also cowrote and coproduced films based on Baron Cohens characters such as Ali G Indahouse Borat and Brüno Mazer attended The Haberdashers Askes Boys School where he met Baron Cohen He then read Law at Peterhouse Cambridge University and graduated in 1994 While at university he was an active member of Cambridge Footlights and was vice president from 1993 to 1994 His early work includes production roles on The Word The Big Breakfast and The 11 OClock Show In 2007 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for cowriting the film Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan He shared his nomination with Sacha Baron Cohen Ant Hines Peter Baynham and Todd Phillips They ended up losing to The Departed In 2013 he made his debut feature film directing with the British comedy I Give It a Year He followed it with the 2016 American comedy Dirty Grandpa In 2020 he cowrote the script for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm for which he was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and won a Writers Guild Award He is married to television personality Daisy Donovan with whom he has two daughters Maisy and Mini Ivy Mazer is Jewish Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Mazer licensed under CCBYSA a complete list of contributors on Wikipedia