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SACHA BARON COHEN is back and Sarah Palin is not amused.
The US former vice presidential nominee and ex-Alaska governor has launched an extraordinary attack on the British comedian for duping her to take part in his new show.
“Ya’ got me, Sacha. Feel better now?” wrote the mother of five, once synonymous with the Tea Party movement on the far-right of the Republican Party.
Cohen, she said, “heavily disguised himself as a disabled US veteran, fake wheelchair and all,” for the interview that she was told was a “legit” historical documentary by pay-to-view American television network Showtime.
“I join a long list of American public personalities who have fallen victim to the evil, exploitive, sick ‘humour’ of the British ‘comedian’ Sacha Baron Cohen, enabled and sponsored by CBS/Showtime,” she wrote.
Palin said she ultimately walked out of the interview and slammed what she called the Cambridge-educated comedian’s “foreign commentaries” that disrespected the US military and middle-class Americans.
She called on Cohen, CBS and Showtime to donate all proceeds from the interview to charities that support American veterans.
In a final indignity, Palin accused the production team of “purposefully” dropping her and her daughter off at the wrong Washington airport, “knowing” they would miss their return flights back to Alaska.
Cohen first found fame in Britain in 2000 with Da Ali G Show that saw his wannabe rapper character interview unsuspecting public figures. The show later transferred across the Atlantic.
He followed a similar format with hit movie characters that include bumbling Kazakh reporter Borat and gay Austrian fashionista Bruno.
His latest venture Who is America? is a satirical half-hour seven-episode series that premieres this Sunday on Showtime in the US.
“That’s the first time I’ve ever signed a waterboard,” former vice president Dick Cheney says in a teaser for the series tweeted by Cohen this week.
A voice off camera had asked Cheney to sign his “waterboard kit” – an empty water bottle.
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Cohen is one of the greatest comedic personalities of our time. Palin has always been a joke of a politician and this proves how easy she is to make a fool of.
@Daniel Donovan: i find him a bit racist
@Bill: He’s a ballsy comedian that makes fun of everything. Not afraid of trial by public opinion and slandering from Hollywood.
@Daniel Donovan: I’m all for a laugh but there is a line and cohen is usually on the other side of that line. If you had a terminally ill child he would laugh at you. He has zero moral compass. As for Palin, well she should know better but has always been a bit slow on the uptake
@Brian Jones: There ought not be a line in comedy my friend.
@Daniel Donovan: There we differ
Sarah Palin is regularly duped by the sun setting and being shocked it rising on the other side of the horizon.
She was fair game. I look forward to seeing the fun.
Dropping off at the wrong airport, if deliberate, was nasty though.
She would have loved it if it had been Obama or one of the Clinton’s.
Can’t wait!
Sarah Palin, if you respect American Veterans so much, why is there even a need for charities to support them?
He did a brilliant take down of Cheney. Signing a water board was extraordinary. If you find a a big enough ego, it will invariably be gullible.
Never found him funny
I’m sure he’s devastated.
@Donnacha Bhoicaire: You probably laugh at Mrs. Brown.
@Donnacha Bhoicaire:
That’s because he isn’t.
@O Swetenham: I don’t find him funny either.
Is that ok with you Swetenham?
@Bat Daly: No it’s not ok with me. Now I’m devastated.
@O Swetenham: Why would he be devestated ? Surely he can deal with the rejection of one solitary Journal reader. I hope my comment hasnt hampered his career. Maybe you could console him when you meet him next
@WinstonSmith: Not really. Not my number one preference but I am sure alot of people do and get enjoyment from it
His comedy is so so compared to other mainstream comics, though any ridiculing of Sarah has to be applauded, well done sir.
Cohen is not actually funny. Very rarely rich English ‘classical! educated are…….Stephen fry and Hugh Laurie excepted.
@Paul Flood: different tastes. I find him funny but I can understand that some might find his humour tasteless.
@Paul Flood: Old saying goes something like ‘if you can’t laugh at yourself, you’re probably missing the best joke’
@Paul Flood: define “actually funny”… and I’m not going to make a list, but Monty Python??
@Paul Flood: I think he’s hilarious. Just because you personally don’t like his humour doesn’t mean he’s not funny.
@Dave Harris: Best answer ever!! There should be NO need of any charities. People pay enough taxes in most countries. In the US they rave about patriotism yet don’t balk at the fact there is a need for charities for veterans. You hit the nail on the head Dave.
She was great in Nailing Palin in fairness.
@JesusMoreBullshit: Oscar performance
About as funny as the News of the World.
@Jimmy Coltrane: no, no. It’s a satirical interview. That’ll be the joke. This is just a report on someone’s reaction to it.
Is she the b#tch who shoots animals just for the fun of it
@Scottyal: no shes one of the former monty pythons, also did that “around the world in 80 days” for the bbc
Fair play Sacha.
Sign my water board ha ha classic.
No Sarah you are just an idiot
That woman is so dumb, a box of rocks could fool her! But! Thank goodness for all of us, it was Sachs Baron Cohen!! – can’t wait to see it!
SACHA
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