He went to one of the Oxbridge universities IIRC, which the OP obviously did not.
I think Cohen is really talented and seriously intelligent. I love it when he visited america. Anyone remember when the character that's supposedly from austria visits the US wrestling team in florida? He's getting them to wrestle and do all the 'hell yeah' muscle tensing crap then right at the end he asks them to say hi to all the viewers for austria's Gay TV channel... awesome stuff seeing their reaction.
The movie did suck, however. The humour stems from the members of public not knowing the guy's taking the p!ss out of them, when everyone's an actor it just doesn't hit the funny spot.