Flamboyant British comic Sacha Baron Cohen sparked minor chaos on Cannes’ fabled Croisette beachfront Wednesday as his zany alter ego General Aladeen took a morning stroll on his camel Osama. The star of “The Dictator” ordered his mini-skirted Amazonian bodyguards to point their assault rifles at the press pack outside the ritzy Carlton Hotel before…
LOS ANGELES — Sacha Baron Cohen has threatened Academy Award “zionists” with “unimaginable consequences” if they ban him from Sunday’s Oscars, in a spoof riposte to a warning against staging a publicity stunt. In full regalia as the military dictator from his latest film, the colorful British actor gave them…
In a segment Wednesday night, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell replayed two infamous clips of comedy staged by Sacha Baron Cohen, in which he interviews both former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) as characters from his former show on HBO. In the first interview, O’Donnell focused…
I’m sorry, but that’s the only possible explanation for this: There’s the part where one of the few black people in the GOP offers to bring the friend chicken and potato salad, because…well, watermelons are heavy? Then, there’s this: The goal of this party from its inception about inclusion. How…
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