Oscars Preemptively Censor Sacha Baron Cohen, for Fear of Offending James Cameron. That’s Power, Kids.
Many wondered what the deal was when Sacha Baron Cohen was unceremoniously dumped from the list of Oscar presenters. The assumption was that the Oscars were just being PC namby-pambies, bumping Cohen out of fear of what he might say or do – but now it’s been revealed that Oscar producers knew exactly what Cohen meant to say and do during his presentation skit, and their fear over the potential consequences of this outrageous bit caused them to pull the plug. To put it bluntly: the Oscars said no thanks to Sacha Baron Cohen because they were worried his routine would offend James Cameron, who will be on-hand to receive a sickeningly huge helping of Avatar accolades. According to New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Cohen’s intended skit, a teaming with Ben Stiller, would’ve featured Cohen in full Na’vi make-up and regalia and Stiller as his translator, and was going to climax with Cohen revealing he was “pregnant” and confronting Cameron as the father. This may very well have been hilarious – it certainly sounds better than most of the crap the Oscars spoon-feed us every year – but we’ll never know now, because big-shots familiar with James Cameron’s legendary lack of a sense of humor about himself or anything else on earth decided they would rather have Cameron remain in his seat, un-pissed, than allow Cohen to entertain the audience with his crazy bit. Upon news of the skit’s nixing, Cohen told Oscar producers he would prefer to stay home than fly all the way to Hollywood to deliver some watered-down awards show nonsense, hence his striking from the presenters’ list. The only humiliation Cameron may have to face now is watching his ex beat him for best director, something everyone in the world hopes will happen.
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Cohen is completely overrated. The truth is he is a giant baby that can’t take what he dishes out. He can’t take the idea that Cameron (and a lot of others for that matter) has more success and talent than he will ever have and it drives him crazy. So if he can’t get and do exactly what he wants then he goes to a corner and sulks.
Cameron has talent? Could have fooled me.
I feel like all the sides in this issue acted as you’d expect them to. Cohen is hilarious and the bit would have been funny in a horribly awkward way, just like everything else he’s done. He saw the potential for his confrontational humor to work well on James Cameron;a celebrity who doesn’t shine in front of the camera and would have a hard time handling the joke gracefully.
The Oscars knew they’d get shit for it, so they said no, as they have to do from time to time. Cohen potentially didn’t care enough to fly to Cali for a drawn out awards ceremony that he wasn’t nominated in. Saw a way out of it when he didn’t get what he asked for, and just said screw it.
They are both derf-o-matics. Cameron for being a complete tool and Cohen for making fun of people who would do the same things he would do, if tricked.
Cohen is so funny, talented and successful that gay some losers post their gay opinions about him on here and Cohen craps on their faces.