What politicians has Sacha Baron Cohen pranked?
SACHA Baron Cohen, the 48-year-old comedian best known for his characters Borat and Ali G, appears to be back to his trickster ways.
Cohen reportedly pranked this week, which led the former NYC mayor to call police.
Who is Sacha Baron Cohen?
Cohen is a British actor and comedian who starred in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan in 2006.
The comic, who was born in Hammersmith, London, is married to Australian actress Isla Fisher.
The pair has two daughters, Elula and Olive, and one son, Montgomery.
Why did Rudy Giuliani call the cops on Sacha Baron Cohen?
Rudy Giuliani, President ‘s personal attorney, phoned the NYPD when Cohen pranked him at the Mark Hotel on Tuesday.
Giuliani, 76, who expected to be interviewed about the administrations response to coronavirus, recounted the unusual incident to on Wednesday.
The former mayor of New York City said: “This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit.
“It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd.
“He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.”
He added: “This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shake-down, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away.”
PageSix learned that Giuliani was offered money for the interview – which he requested to be donated to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
Giuliani explained: “I only later realized it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.
“I am a fan of some of his movies, Borat in particular, because I’ve been to Kazakhstan,” he told the news outlet.
He then reportedly spoke in Borat’s accent and said: “‘She is my sister. She is number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan.’ That was pretty funny.”
The prank could possibly be used for a potential second season of Who is America.
What happened to his show Who is America?
Who is America is a political satire TV series which premiered on July 15, 2018.
Cohen created and starred in the half-hour series, which has only had one season with seven episodes.
According to : “The seven-episode series explores the diverse individuals who populate our unique nation, and features Baron Cohen experimenting in the playground of 2018 America.”
The show marked the Cohen’s return to series television for the first time over ten years.
In a December 2018 interview with , Cohen said a second season “would be impossible.”
He explained: “We relied on the fact that no one was expecting me. I hadn’t done anything undercover for over a decade and so nobody thought, ‘Oh wait a minute, is this a Sacha Baron Cohen character?’ That’s the problem.
“You’d have to wait another 10 years to get away with it again, otherwise you’d have some very slim pickings. And no publicist worth his or her weight would allow an interview with anyone suspicious now.”
What other politicians has Sacha Baron Cohen pranked?
In the past, Cohen has successfully pranked former vice-president Dick Cheney, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, Bernie Sanders, former Georgia lawmaker Jason Spencer, former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh, and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Others pranked by Cohen include: Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, journalist Ted Koppel, and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
In 2018, Spencer was tricked into taking a self-defense class to prepare him against terrorist kidnappings.
On the Showtime series, Spencer was seen dropping his pants and the using the “N-word” repeatedly – which led him to later announce his resignation.
On June 28, about injecting politicians with the “Wuhan flu.”
The comedian infiltrated the Washington Three Percenters rally and encouraged some of the attendees to repeat his lyrics about infecting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Dr Fauci.
Some of the lyrics included: “Dr Fauci, what we gonna do?/Inject him with the Wuhan flu…/Hillary Clinton, what we gonna do?/Lock her up like we used to do.”
“Wuhan flu” could be a reference to coronavirus, which is believed to have originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Last year, the comic and calling their platforms “the greatest propaganda machine in history.”
The British star said in a speech in New York: “Hate crimes are surging, as are murderous attacks on religious and ethnic minorities.”