Showing posts with label Sacha Baron Cohen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacha Baron Cohen. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

'Bruno' Bamboozles Bubbas

You would think people might recognize a gag when they see one.

Well, think again.
Sacha Baron Cohen has struck again - this time hijacking an Arkansas cage fighting contest with a display of gay kissing.

The unsuspecting audience who turned up for the Blue Collar Brawlin' event, lured by the promise of $1 beer, expected a night of old fashioned fisticuffs.

What they got was two men stripping down to their underwear, kissing and "rubbing one another", according to local police.

The men - believed to be actors - were then forced to run for their lives as the 1,600-strong crowd pelted them with beer and chairs.

"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said Dwight Duncan, president of the Four States Fair Grounds which provided the venue.

A spokesman for Baron Cohen declined to say whether he was behind the prank.

But the comedy star is currently in the US filming undercover as his latest creation, Bruno, a camp Austrian fashion reporter. A Bruno film is due in cinemas later this year.

Posters for Blue Collar Brawlin' promised: "Hot Chicks, Cold Beer, Hardcore Fights" and were accompanied by pictures of a scantily clad woman.
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