Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical seven-episode Showtime series “Who Is America?” has made headlines for tricking celebrities and politicians including Ted Koppel, Roy Moore, Joe Arpaio and more.
But not everyone Cohen has tried to dupe fell for the liberal comedian’s antics. In fact, many of his marks easily saw through the now-decades-old act, and avoided becoming Cohen’s punchline.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was able to avoid becoming a mockery when invited onto Cohen’s Showtime series.
Lewandowski kept to his talking points as Cohen continuously prodded him with ridiculous questions, such as asking him about the far-right conspiracy theory that PBS is owned by the “Rastafarian lobby.”
“I wouldn’t know anything about that,” a cool Lewandowski said.
Cohen posed as “Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr,” a right-wing conspiracy theorist and “citizen journalist.” He also asked the former Trump staffer to speak on a variety of sensitive topics such as his stance on neo-Nazis and if Trump is racist.
“I had the privilege of standing and sitting next to candidate Trump — and now the president— for thousands of hours over my tenure running his campaign. Never, ever, ever did I ever hear him utter a racist word in his life. Ever,” Lewandowski said.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) also didn’t fall for the comedian’s tricks when he was interviewed by Cohen, in character, as an Israeli anti-terror expert named Col. Erran Morad.
Cohen as Morad was trying to convince Gaetz to endorse a fictional program called “Kinderguardians,” which would arm America’s children to help prevent school shootings.
“You want me to say on television that I support 3 and 4-year-olds with firearms?” Gaetz asked Cohen. “Is that what you’re asking me to do?”
Cohen replied, “Yes.”
“Typically, members of Congress don’t just hear a story about a program and indicate whether they support it or not,” Gaetz said.
Gaetz spoke to “Fox & Friends” about being on the show, and said he was skeptical because his mother taught him to be that way.
“Good makeup artistry, good acting by Sacha Baron Cohen,” Gaetz said. “They catch members of Congress at the end of the day, a little frustrated, a little tired. And I think they got some of my colleagues to say things they likely regret.” (FoxNews)
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(FoxNews)