Sacha Baron Cohen Tries to Make O.J. Simpson Confess in "Who Is America?" Finale - And yet the long-awaited Sarah Palin appearance failed to materialize.

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It was less than two months ago that Sarah Palin emerged as the
first major public figure to admit she had been “duped” by Sacha
Baron Cohen for a mysterious new Showtime series called Who Is
America? A lot has happened since then.

Over the past seven weeks, the British comedian most famous for
playing characters like Ali G and Borat has convinced sitting
Republican congressmen to endorse arming toddlers and forced a
George state senator out of office for screaming the “N-word,” among
other sometimes hilarious, always provocative stunts.

Despite Showtime’s attempts to tamp down expectations, it seemed
inevitable that Baron Cohen would save Palin’s sit-down interview
with Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick, PhD for the seventh and final episode
this Sunday. But it was nowhere to be found, perhaps for legal
reasons or simply because the comedian just didn’t think it was good
enough.

Given how many prominent people had followed her lead in exposing
themselves as targets before their appearances aired, a lot of
viewers were left wondering if there were any genuine surprises
still up the comedian’s sleeve. The answer to that question came
Sunday night in the form of none other than the recently freed O.J.
Simpson, who had made no attempts to get ahead of his talk with
Baron Cohen’s Italian socialite character Gio Monaldo.

https://youtu.be/0VvWPLHNpYc

The O.J. bit came as a post-credits sequence after Dr. Ruddick sat
down with an increasingly frustrated Barney Frank and Col. Errad
Morad embarked on a particularly surreal journey with an older man
who ended up posing as a “radical lesbian” who loved the HBO show
Girls at the Women’s March in San Francisco.

“To good friends,” Baron Cohen’s Gio said, clinking champagne
glasses with Simpson in what looked to be a dark Las Vegas suite.
Within seconds, Baron Cohen was making overt references to the
murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in front of the
former NFL star.

After the character’s girlfriend left the room, Baron Cohen
confessed to Simpson, “She’s gorgeous, but sometimes I want to kill
her.” Simpson seemed uncomfortable with all of the allusions to
murder, but that didn’t stop him from high-fiving the host when he
said he wanted to take her in a helicopter and drop her over the
Grand Canyon. “Stop, stop,” Simpson said, simultaneously laughing
and shaking his head.

Watch O.J. Simpson high-five @SachaBaronCohen after he
makes a joke about murdering his girlfriend on the
#WhoIsAmerica finale
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— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 27, 2018

When Baron Cohen suggested that his guest would have to introduce
him to Johnnie Cochran, Simpson reminded him that his famous lawyer
is no longer living. “What, you didn’t kill him too, did you?” Baron
Cohen asked with another laugh.

From there, Baron Cohen did his best to get Simpson, who may or may
not have realized he was being filmed based on the camera placement,
to tell him what really happened to his wife that night in 1994.

“Well, first of all, she wasn’t my wife,” Simpson said, seemingly
focused on the wrong part of the question. “We had been divorced and
separated.” Asked how he “got away with it,” Simpson insisted, “Hey,
hey, I didn’t get away with nothing.”

“Me and you, we’ve got something in common,” Baron Cohen told
Simpson. “We’re both, how you say, ladykillers.”

“No, I didn’t kill nobody,” Simpsons replied, laughing hysterically.

As much as many viewers would have loved to see what Baron Cohen got
Sarah Palin to say on camera, it was hard to imagine a more fitting
capper to an insane season of television that came out of nowhere
this summer.

And in the end, Palin got credit for her “inadvertent” work as a
“Special Publicity Consultant.”


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