Earlier this week, we learned that it'll be five extra days before The Dictator arrives in theaters, but a taste of the comedy is already online.  The first official clip from the comedy has arrived, and it demonstrates that while star Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles have a made straightforward narrative, they've maintained their commitment to brazenly presenting insulting ideas with a straight face.

There's a new trailer for The Dictator, the latest comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen as an original character.  Previous promotion worked to establish the title character, His Excellency General Admiral Aladeen, as the full-on despotic dicksplash lording over the fictitious Middle Eastern nation of Wadiya, positing him as the comedic equivalent of, say, a Colonel Gaddafi or President al-Assad. 

This trailer, though, offers a good idea of The Dictator's actual plot, so if you're looking to stay spoiler-free, give it and this whole post a wide berth.

Did it strike anyone as slightly ridiculous that yesterday we saw two ten-second previews of the John Carter and The Avengers Super Bowl spots?  Commercials are one thing, but commercials for commercials is a whole different level.  Another movie that will be showing up during the copious commercial breaks of America's favorite sporting event is The Dictator, the new comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen and directed by Larry Charles, the guy behind Borat and Bruno.  The comedy has sidestepped showing a ten-second peek and instead just released its first TV spot wholesale online for your viewing pleasure several days before the big game.

The first teaser trailer for The Dictator has arrived online, introducing the title character, a megalomaniacal tyrant ruling over the fictitious Middle Eastern nation of Wadiya.  Sacha Baron Cohen plays that dictator, so yeah, this is a comedy.  The trailer contextualizes Baron Cohen's character as a Muammar Gaddafi-style despot under international pressure using fresh footage, before sliding directly into many an incendiary line guaranteed to cause no small amount of conversation around The Dictator.  The trailer doesn't give any sense of the story beyond the fact that the titular ruler travels to Manhattan, where he encounters John C. Reilly (who shows that the film's satirical focus will include America) and Megan Fox as herself.  Sort of.