Sacha Baron Cohen is often in character when he is in the movies — or even at the Oscars — and many people don’t recognize him when he’s not disguised.
Cohen took advantage of that for a segment on Conan in which he interviewed people about what they think of him, without the interviewees realizing who he was.
“I don’t like him,” said one woman. Another man called him an “asshole” and a “MF-er.”
The actor, who was wearing no makeup, just glasses and a suit, then brought up Cohen’s “poor etiquette and bad manners.” The woman he was interviewing agreed. “He just seems very crass,” she said.
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“If Hitler was a 10, Saddam Hussein an 8, where would Sacha Baron Cohen be on that scale of evil?” asked Cohen. “6.9,” the man answered without hesitation.
While on Conan, Cohen also described a deleted scene from Borat that featured his character participating in a real porno movie. Cohen says he, as Borat, was playing room service and was instructed to interrupt a couple having sex and sleep with the woman himself. Borat kept frustrating the director by failing to understand what he was supposed to do.
“Why would you have cameras while we are making sexy time?” Cohen asked in his Borat character, as he recalled the scene. He said he annoyed the director so much that the director cut his own hair to put it on the porn actress’ nether regions, in an attempt to please Cohen. Watch both videos below.
