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Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Baron Davis UCLA Needs To Hire Earl Watson ... I"ll Be His Assistant
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Roy Moore Sues Sacha Baron Cohen for $95 Million Over "Who Is America?" Stunt
Roy Moore followed through on his threat — he’s suing Sacha Baron Cohen for portraying him as a pedophile on national TV … and he’s gunning for tens of millions of dollars. Moore and his wife, Kayla, filed suit against Sacha, Showtime and…
Monday, August 27, 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen Jokes with O.J. Simpson About Killing Women
Sacha Baron Cohen saved the best for last … wrapping up his ‘Who is America’ series by sitting down with O.J. Simpson, and trying to get him to admit he committed the murders. O.J. didn’t take quite the bait, but it was pretty close as…
Monday, July 30, 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen Drops Pedophile Prank, Roy Moore Threatens Lawsuit
Roy Moore played right into Sacha Baron Cohen’s hands as the comedian pulled off a prank that seemed to label Moore a pedophile … and the whole mess could be headed for court. The skit aired on Sunday night’s episode of “Who Is America?” — Moore…
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen"s Mosque Prank Misleading and False, Says Kingman, AZ Mayor
Sacha Baron Cohen is unfairly making the citizens of Kingman, Arizona look like a bunch of backwater racists … according to the city’s mayor. Mayor Monica Gates tells us last week’s episode of “Who Is America?” is total BS because she…
Sacha Baron Cohen Sends "Who Is America?" Art Dealer a Letter and Gift
Sacha Baron Cohen doesn’t dupe and ditch when it comes to the art dealer he made look foolish on his show, “Who Is America?” — instead he sent her some real sh***y art. Christy Cones is the art expert at Laguna Beach’s Coast Gallery who met…
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen Prank Forces Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer to Resign
Sacha Baron Cohen has taken down his first politician … Georgia lawmaker Jason Spencer is stepping down after showing his bare ass and yelling the n-word on Cohen’s show. The Republican state assemblyman initially said he would not resign, but…
Sacha Baron Cohen Prank Forces Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer to Resign
Sacha Baron Cohen has taken down his first politician … Georgia lawmaker Jason Spencer is stepping down after showing his bare ass and yelling the n-word on Cohen’s show. The Republican state assemblyman initially said he would not resign, but…
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Corinne Olympios: Pranked, Humiliated by Sacha Baron Cohen
Remember Corinne Olympios?
The former Bachelor suitor was sent home a very long time ago by Nick Viall, but not before she made quite an impression on the star himself and viewers at home ny often prancing around topless.
Olympios then jetted off to be a contestant on Bachelor in Paradise…
… only to allege that she was sexually assaulted during filming, prompting an internal investigation and the near cancelation of that franchise entirely.
That was the last time we heard from Olympios, whose15 minutes of fame appeared to be over about a year ago.
Until, that is, Sacha Baron Cohen swooped in and made her relevant again.
The reality star was featured on Sunday"s episode of the Showtime series Who is America?, which features going around in various costumes and oulling pranks on unsuspecting victims.
In this case, Olympios was tricked into believing she was going to be a spokesperson for a chariety created by Gio Madano, an Italian photographer who documents the fabulous lives of the .001 percent.
(NOTE: Madano does not actually exist.)
As Madano, Cohen convinced Olympios to wear a bikini/hazmat suit ensemble and to be photoshopped into a picture of relief workers.
And then there was an interview…
First, Baron Cohen got Olympios to say she went to Africa to help people with ebola for about a month.
Despite the fact that she did no such thing.
Then, Baron Cohen asked Corinne to relay the story about the warlord who "was gonna do a massacre of this village" until he recognized Olympios and she talked him out of it.
Olympios hesitated for a moment, prior to playing along and saying "he was really nice, actually," and that she "saved 6,000 people" as a result of her intervention.
You may go ahead and commence slapping your forehead now.
Later in the episode, Olymious starred a fake PSA where she asked for viewers to "Adopt a Child Soldier."
As in … buy grenades for child soldiers to launch at hospitals.
In an interview published prior to this episode airing, Corinne tried to save face with The Daily Beast.
"Hopefully people just see that it is a Sacha Baron Cohen prank. He"s pranked a bunch of people with big names. It"s light, it"s funny, it"s nothing serious," she said, adding:
"I hope people can see that and they"re not going to freak out about me saying certain things, because people that know me know that I"m a really amazing person."
Watch the video atop this post and judge for yourself!
Tony Rock Says Sacha Baron Cohen Isn"t the One Doing the "Duping"
Sacha Baron Cohen has been accused of “duping” people into saying and doing some ridiculously stupid things, but he’s just showing their true colors … so says Tony Rock. We got Chris Rock’s kid brother Monday at LAX and asked him about…
Monday, July 23, 2018
Corinne Olympios Says Sacha Baron Cohen Interview Doesn"t Prove She"s a Liar
Corinne Olympios says her interview with Sacha Baron Cohen – where she advocates grenades for kids — is no reflection on her character, instead it only proves he strong-arms folks into looking stupid. The ‘Bachelor’ alum was fully duped on…
Corinne Olympios Says Sacha Baron Cohen Interview Doesn"t Prove She"s a Liar
Corinne Olympios says her interview with Sacha Baron Cohen – where she advocates grenades for kids — is no reflection on her character, instead it only proves he strong-arms folks into looking stupid. The ‘Bachelor’ alum was fully duped on…
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Congressman Matt Gaetz Explains Why Sacha Baron Cohen Didn"t Dupe Him
Congressman Matt Gaetz didn’t fall for Sacha Baron Cohen’s trap to promote putting guns in the hands of toddlers, but admits he was clueless about who he was talking to. We got the Florida Representative Thursday at Reagan National Airport, and…
Friday, July 13, 2018
Sarah Palin Compares Sacha Baron Cohen Duping Politicians to #MeToo
Sarah Palin says politicians falling victim to Sacha Baron Cohen’s pranks is kinda like the new #MeToo. Seriously. Palin’s still railing at Sacha for duping her — pretending to be a disabled veteran to interview her — and says she’s…
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen Fires Back at Sarah Palin and President Trump
Sarah Palin is totally wrong about what happened when Sacha Baron Cohen interviewed her — at least according to Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick … the character Sacha was playing at the time. Cohen just released a letter addressed to “Vice-President…
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Sarah Palin: EVIL Sacha Baron Cohen Duped Me Into an Interview!
Sacha Baron Cohen is the man behind Borat and therefore the man responsible for the catchphrases of all of your most annoying friends over the past decade.
This time, he staged a satirical interview with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Palin, who’s been in enough disastrous interviews to recognize them, caught on, and unleashed a scathing attack on Cohen’s “evil” humor.
“Yup – we were duped,” Palin’s post begins. “Ya’ got me, Sacha. Feel better now?”
Sarah announces: “I join a long list of American public personalities who have fallen victim to the evil, exploitive, sick ‘humor’ of the British ‘comedian’ Sacha Baron Cohen, enabled and sponsored by CBS/Showtime.”
Wait, she’s really going with evil for this? This isn’t just a matter of people in glass houses — most people wouldn’t say that a fake interview deserves that label.
“This ‘legit opportunity’ to honor American Vets and contribute to a ‘legit Showtime historical documentary’ was requested of me via a speakers bureau,” Palin says.
Some would suggest that, had the offer been truly legitimate, no one would have asked Sarah Palin to make an appearance.
“For my interview,” Palin explains. “My daughter and I were asked to travel across the country where Cohen (I presume) had heavily disguised himself as a disabled US Veteran, fake wheelchair and all.”
Cohen’s taste has always been questionable, as we’ll explain.
“Out of respect for what I was led to believe would be a thoughtful discussion with someone who had served in uniform,” Palin continues.
“I sat through a long “interview” full of Hollywoodism’s disrespect and sarcasm,” Palin says.
We don’t know what a Hollywoodism is supposed to mean in this context, but we imagine that whatever fans she still has will love the term.
“But finally had enough and literally, physically removed my mic and walked out,” Palin describes. “Much to Cohen’s chagrin.”
Palin writes: “The disrespect of our US military and middle-class Americans via Cohen’s foreign commentaries under the guise of interview questions was perverse.”
“Here is my challenge, shallow Sacha boy,” Palin suggests. “Go ahead – air the footage. Experience tells us it will be heavily edited, not pretty, and intended to humiliate.”
His whole schtick is seeing what people will say and how they will react, so, yeah, of course it’s intended to humiliate.
“The challenge is to Cohen, CBS, and Showtime,” Palin says. “Donate all proceeds to a charitable group that actually respects and supports American Vets.”
We’re not sure how one gauges proceeds from a Showtime series.
“Mock politicians and innocent public personalities all you want, if that lets you sleep at night,” Palin allows.
Interesting that Sarah Palin considers either herself or her daughter to be innocent public personalities.
“But HOW DARE YOU mock those who have fought and served our country?!” Palin asks.
She then says that this was: “Truly sick.”
“And as an aside,” Palin notes. “For further insight into the wealthy corporate enablers of this kind of ‘joke."”
“The Cohen/CBS/Showtime production team purposefully dropped my daughter and me off at the wrong Washington, DC airport after the fake interview,” Palin claims. “Knowing we’d miss all flights back home to Alaska.”
That’s quite the accusation — of downright maliciousness.
“After refusing to take our calls to help get us out of the bind they’d put us in for three days,” Palin describes. “I wrote this off as yet another example of the sick nature that is media-slash-entertainment today.”
Palin has been frustrated with media and entertainment ever since they asked her questions about government policies in interviews while she was McCain’s running mate.
“Feel good and manly about your M.O., Sacha?” Palin asks.
In Palin’s world, of course, demonstrating masculinity is prized, so she assumes that Sacha Baron Cohen is preoccupied with a desire to feel manly.
“By the way, my daughter thinks you’re a piece of ****, Sacha.” Palin says.
Her daughter, Bristol, thinks a lot of things about a lot of people. She also blogs about it.
“Every honorable American Vet should feel the same.”
Note that by saying every honorable American vet, she brings the No True Scottsman paradox into play.
So the inevitable I’m a vet and I’m thrilled that she got played responses can be countered with ah, then you’re not an honorable one.
Sarah Palin is no one’s favorite person, but Sacha Baron Cohen can be controversial himself.
The arguments to defend him are that he does what he does to elicit genuine responses from people, to see what they will say with the right prompting.
But his work often relies upon shock value, the perpetuation of horrific racist stereotypes, and crude jokes.
That said, whatever you think of either of them, there’s one thing about which we can all agree:
Sarah Palin just gave Cohen’s work, which includes a series of interviews with some very famous politicians on both sides of the aisle, better publicity than anyone could have imagined.
We don’t normally advocate doing nice things for Sarah Palin, but perhaps Showtime should send her a fruit basket.
Monday, July 9, 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen Gets Dick Cheney to Sign "Waterboard Kit"
Sacha Baron Cohen’s back to his old tricks … pranking politicians. And it was former Veep Dick Cheney’s turn. Sacha teased a clip Sunday on Twitter about his upcoming new project … and for unknown reasons Sacha decided Cheney was his next…
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Baron Davis: "There Ain"t No Discrimination" in Basketball, Look at Nancy Lieberman!
Former NBA star Baron Davis is pumped Nancy Lieberman got tapped to head coach a BIG3 team … and says her hiring proves their sport is inclusive of all people. “That’s my girl. Well deserved,” Baron — a recent BIG3 signee – told TMZ…
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Baron Davis: Cardi B "Ain"t No Gangbanger" Despite Crips Diss
Baron Davis thinks Cardi B is probably safe in L.A. despite her recent Crips diss on social media … but he ain’t making any guarantees. “Cardi B ain’t no gangbanger,” the South Central native told TMZ Sports. Our photog asked if anyone…
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Allen Iverson & Baron Davis Crush L.A. Strip Club After Kobe Event
From Black Mamba to black booty … After the Kobe Bryant jersey retirement event in L.A., some of the biggest stars in town — from Allen Iverson to Baron Davis — hit up the Ace of Diamonds strip club … and turned all the way up!!!!! FYI,…
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