'Once you can handle the insults, you begin': inside Philippe Gaulier's clown school
Sacha Baron Cohen says he's the funniest man he's ever met and countless comics have learned from his ridicule. Brian Logan attends the classes of the legendary French teacherAn exercise has gone badly wrong at École Philippe Gaulier. "You are the definition of a bad student," croaks the septuagenarian teacher. "This is boring. It is so shit!" Gaulier's student gawps at him, chastened and gormless, as his classma…