Actor and leftist prankster Sacha Baron Cohen claimed in a new interview that he didn’t release footage of his prank Sarah Palin interview from his Showtime series Who Is America? because “it just wasn’t funny enough.”
“Your response to your Golden Globes nomination was to invite Sarah Palin to be your date. She complained she had been duped but she was nowhere to be found in the series. Why, and what did we miss?” a reporter from Deadline asked Sacha Baron Cohen.
He replied:
The Borat funnyman made news over the summer with his Showtime series in which he wore disguises to fool a number of political figures with faux interviews.
His series notably featured Dick Cheney, with Cohen posing as an Israeli military man and asking Cheney what his “favorite war” was.
The series did not, however, feature the interview he did with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, despite much media attention it generated when Palin revealed that Cohen pretended to be a disabled veteran during the interview. She reportedly walked out of the interview in disgust when Cohen asked her an offensive question mocking Chelsea Clinton.
Breitbart News reported in July:
“If people tune into this show, then they’re going to see how middle-class Americans are mocked and our values are mocked,” Palin said of the show at the time.
Cohen also told Deadline that he believes Donald Trump’s election has made Americans feel more comfortable being racist.
“I think the population has changed and that’s a result of the president legitimizing these views,” he said.
The 47-year-old also said that his motivation for making the Who Is America? came from a feeling of “anger and total disgust” at Trump’s presidency.
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