Imagine Ilsa refusing to leave Rick in “Casablanca.” Or if, in “When Harry Met Sally,” after Sally faked her orgasm, the lady in the diner had left in disgust instead of saying, “I’ll have what she’s having.” Imagine if, in “Being There,” one of Ben’s friends sees through the error and tells everyone that Chance…
People doubted him, but in the first season of his new TV show, Sacha Baron Cohen brought the fire week after week. His sensational show “Who is America?” continued to fill us with immeasurable nakhes (and anxiety.) He strategically chose notorious figures to target with sly barbs and sharp-edged guile. Baron Cohen has honed his…
Sacha Baron Cohen continues to up the shock-factor of his controversial show, Who is America, and we are all for it. In the show’s third episode, he interviewed everyone’s favorite Southern villain, Roy Moore, and basically called him a pedophile to his face, which now explains why Moore has threatened to sue Sacha Baron Cohen….
Jason Spencer, the Georgia State GOP representative who appeared on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America” on Sunday night, has resigned. One could say he was caught with his pants down. The disgraced representative had already been defeated in his primary and was set to leave office in November when footage aired of him on…
The question Sacha Baron Cohen has posed to the nation — Who is America? — was answered in more lurid detail on Sunday night in the second episode of his shocking Showtime project. Several segments vied for the most nauseating of the night, but the winner was one featuring Georgia state representative Jason Spencer and…
You can’t bullshit a bullshitter. But you can convince an artist that fecal smears can be fine art, and that’s just what Sacha Baron Cohen did in the first episode of his new Showtime series, “Who Is America,” on Sunday. In a slew of interviews, most notably one with the Washington Post, Christy Cones has…
Sometimes you look at a truly successful person and think: I don’t know how she does it. Pretty much always, you look at comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and think: Seriously, how does he do it? An investigation by Politico on Wednesday revealed some of the means of Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest, greatest cross between art…
Poor, put-upon public servant Sarah Palin flew across the country last year with her daughter for a good cause, she wrote in a confessional Facebook post. Showtime had asked her to participate in a documentary, an opportunity to honor American veterans. The man she met with was wheelchair-bound — he was dressed to look like…
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