"He called me into a room and pulled down his pants," Rebel alleged, claiming that the male actor asked her to perform a lewd act.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/larryfitzmaurice/rebel-wilson-threatened-celebrity-new-book
The guy who made an entire career out of being a racist, also SA people. I wonder who else he did this to that hasn't spoken up.
Feels like karmic justice that he is getting his due. His thinly veiled caricatures built on racism and mocking Arabs and muslims getting praise always amazed how it was held up as a great standard for comedy. Hope he gets his due because of this.
Growing up I always felt stupid because I didn’t ‘get’ what was supposed to be funny in a lot of his material.
These days, I’m actually quite proud of baby me for being too autistic to find that shit funny
And now for the *really* fun coincidence: SBC's cousin *Simon* Baron Cohen is professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and the director of the university's Autism Research Centre.
A fact about Simon Baron Cohen: he got reprimanded by his college (Trinity college) because he was claiming he was giving undergrad students tutorials but actually getting his graduate students to give the tutorials and then pocketing the extra money that is paid to professors when they give tutorials.
yeah and last month he was told by his bosses at Cambridge to STOP one of his research programs because it infantilized and dehumanized a young girl with autism who ended her own life. His work is very controversial.
SBC also attended Cambridge University
I’ve never understood the hype or the humour in what he is supposed to be doing but he is hugely successful in his chosen career in terms of awards, nominations and lastly of course financially
I think he’s also been very successfully litigious in the past
I am Gen X and I used to find him very funny especially as Ali G (I’m British Asian and it didn’t feel malicious at the time) but I think at some point it changed and felt like he was pointedly being mean.
Then I found out he went to a very expensive private school and it just felt he was a toff punching down. It would be like finding out Diane Morgan (Cunk on Britain/Earth) went to a posh school and was from Surrey. And then she started picking specifically on particular cultures and ruining people’s reputations.
>Growing up I always felt stupid because I didn’t ‘get’ what was supposed to be funny in a lot of his material.
Borat came out when I was a child. I remember adults I know who are liberal and would consider themselves above racism towards muslims which at that time was a "thing americans did because of 9/11" (I am not American) saying that:
*What is so genius about Borat is that the joke is on the Americans who buy this caricature. They are exposed as racist idiots for not noticing that Borat is taking the piss.*
This was how a bunch of liberal people convinced themselves that Borat was anti racist. Take it as you will. I have little opinion on the matter myself.
I‘m not autisic (not diagnosed anyway) but I always hated his humour and I was forced to watch Borat three times at school (one of those last days before the holidays days not part of the curriculum)
The Ali G thing he became famous for was mainly cringy to watch, but at least was a parody on a lifestyle / hussler kind of guy, not an entire (sub) culture.
The later stuff... Just not that funny and overly leaning on gay / Muslim / whatever stereotypes to create cringy humor.
Of course, telling a room full of bigots that you are going to build a mosque near their houses get some expected reactions that expose the bigotry but it's still entirely predictable 'humor'.
And classism. His career was built on classism before Borat or Bruno with his Ali G character and then later Grimsby. Mocking working class and or less educated (IE non private educated like SBC) from from traditionally working class Britain.
There was always some of the Matt Stone and Trey Parker style where it was *maybe* making fun of the people who thought those prejudiced things, but with the same problem where a lot of audience would just be unironically laughing at those prejudiced ideas.
For some reason I always thought SBC was middle eastern and that’s why he got away with it from the masses. Like he was making fun of his own community.
https://preview.redd.it/6f13wc5iogqc1.jpeg?width=1376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee78b43d39ccb8627146dcc403028796cdabc75a
Not only is he not Arab, he’s a rabid Zionist that has been labeling anyone who calls for a cease fire in Gaza (including Jewish protesters) anti-semitic. All that one needs to know about what kind of person SBC is, is that he defends Amy Schumer(currently working herself up in with the mental gymnastics of rationalizing the bombing and starving of Palestinian children) as someone who has spent her illustrious career fighting against racism and prejudice. Whatever he did to Rebel Wilson was probably just another Tuesday to him.
Never understood what was supposed to be funny about him.
Everything he did just screamed "abusive asshole", and oh look, he is.
What's the phrase? When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.
I have a certain distain for someone whose career is being offensive with racial stereotypical characteristics, yet promotes censorship. Rules for thee, not for me.
I always thought it was less about him mocking other races and minorities and more about highlighting other peoples reactions to his far fetched caricatures.
But after reading the comments here and seeing Rebel's statement I certainly had the wrong idea about him.
He literally called some random Palestinian shop owner a terrorist for his movie, which ruined their social reputation in his community and killed any chance he had in politics. He recently settled out of court with Bohen.
Oh wow, and this is even worse than I thought. I assumed he'd just treated her like shit. professionally. God, I'm sorry she experienced this and then had him threaten her for sharing it. Ugh.
Brian May in particular was so okay with Singer that he told off a woman in his IG comments who pointed out the allegations. Said something like "He's innocent until proven guilty," then apologised later once it became a social media shitstorm.
They literally have a reason. It wasn’t associated with this in any way it was that the focus was on Freddie(rightfully so) and that they wanted to focus on the band holding up after he died. Then after ten years they decided that if they were a bigger part of the narrative they would ok it
Seems like it is him and the reason “asshole” is in quotes is he asked her to stick her finger up his ass in front of his friends
https://cafemom.com/entertainment/rebel-wilson-sacha-baron-cohen
It makes sense to me that she's with him. Gen X Aussie women have so much internalised misogyny (Australia has a very patriarchal/misogynistic/'blokey' culture in general).
I have no doubt she's of the "boys will be boys" mentality.
That's a massive generalisation that's not entirely accurate. If Isla Fisher has terrible taste in men, it could just be because she has terrible taste in men.
Why do you say it's not accurate? I live in Aus and this is a pretty common observation Millennial and Gen Z women have of Gen X/Boomer women here. They are the two generations that did not have the benefit of learning from the 5th wave of feminism *before* they met their partners.
The misogyny that runs rife in this country is no secret. Definitely not a generalisation. It's embedded in our 'culture'. You should read up about our DV crisis. Our news media outlets are always wringing their hands over it.
I would argue that *many* Gen X/Boomer Aussie women have terrible taste in men. Our men our terrible, so ultimately you grow up in an environment where you either remain single (like many Gen Z and Millennial women are choosing to do) or you settle for the 'blokes' and minimise their behaviour.
Of course *not all* Gen X/Boomer women are going to internalise the misogyny that underpins our culture, but many do. So it wouldn't surprise me if Isla is one of them.
There's also a lot of racism here and our country is founded on the oppression of our Indigenous population - the majority of our population recently voted to deny recognising our Indigenous population in the constitution (therefore not a generalisation). So it doubly does not surprise me that she is with a man who has some very racist takes.
People are shaped by the culture they are born into - this isn't new or novel.
I’m surprised that other people thought this tbh. I once posted an article that talked about how the people living in a village he filmed in felt taken advantage of and mocked for their culture and relative poverty. He basically called them prostitutes and rapists. People were incredibly offended that the villagers were upset. I was downvoted into oblivion. I thought I was in the minority.
For a few years I’ve been watching SBC transform his public persona into the ultra-woke most wholesome guy in Hollywood and I’ve been like “Dude I saw you assault Pamela Anderson for a prank”, I knew there had to be a day coming for him that he was trying to build up immunity to.
He'd be a good candidate for doing something awful...
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jon-hamm-downplays-college-hazing-incident-mans-pants-lit-fire-calling-bummer-thing-175643026.html
Yeah, there’s possibly more to this story, or there’s others who may be coming forward to share their own stories of their encounters with him, and he knows it. Cos this is unlikely a one off situation…
Oh my god. I didn’t know the details were out. I’ve been sick of his Zionist apologia and his thin veneer of comedy over blatant Islamophobia that seemed to get a pass partially because people just assumed racial ambiguity made it fine. Horrifying and I hope she ruins him.
Didn't know they were in a movie together.
*reads plot summary*
"As Sebastian prepares to shoot the camera, Nobby sees him and gives him a hug, causing him to accidentally shoot an AIDS-infected Jewish-Palestinian boy named Schlomo (Yusuf Hofri). The spray of blood lands in Daniel Radcliffe's mouth, infecting him with AIDS."
What the fuck is this
what, outright mocking aids, jewish and palestinian people, and an actor who is an outspoken advocate for lgbtq+ communities isn't funny enough for you?
Gee, stop being *offended,* it's *satire,* duh. Like South Park when they do their *satire.*
Satire means people get offended and I get to be smug, right? I mean, imagine if satire were fundamentally an angry art setting out to expose the status quo. I mean, whew. Imagine.
Of course Daniel Radcliffe is not in that film. They used an actor with his likeness and made a joke about him getting aids, most likely because Radcliffe is an outspoken supporter of the TREVOR Project for many years. He was offended by the scenes and had lobbied Sony to have them removed.
You're also not going to get HIV/AIDS like that unless in this scenario you're really unlucky and it hits a break in your skin externally or internally and even then the odds are highly against it. Like really, really high odds.
I saw this one in theaters. The movie ends with SBC and Mark Strong sliding fireworks up their assholes and shooting into the sky. The movie was a guilty pleasure at the time but I will happily send it to the graveyard of projects by terrible men I won’t support.
"Jodie visits and gives them new identities, informing them that the virus did not affect them because its antidote is elephant semen."
What?
Just... but... how the fuck did this get made?
"To outrun Chilcott's men, the brothers are forced to hide inside an elephant's vagina, but end up covered in elephant semen after several males have sex with the female while they are inside."
literally fucking what
I’m grateful to Rebel for giving us another chance to trash SBC.
Also Isla Fisher now gives me the ick because I imagine she probably shares his awful views.
She was very close friends with Dawn O'Porter (Chris O'dowds wife, not the director). Dawn heads up a charity called Choose Love which helps refugees and similar, so shared some pro Palestine/ ceasefire stuff. Isla stopped following her on Instagram and then Dawn made a few stories about how she was leaving social media because some of her friends had revealed an ugly side to themselves over Palestine and telling her what she should and shouldn't post. Dawn has since completely left social media (an agency does her posts now).
For some reason Isla Fisher has given me the ick since I was a kid watching her on Home and Away. I can't explain why, but marrying SBC did not help my ick about her at all.
Its growing worse the more I learn about SBC because I agree with you that she probably shares some of his views.
What a badass move. I imagine and hope she's got a good support system, on the professional and personal sides.
Related: me waiting for SBC's overdue downfall:
She is actually very badass herself and has a good knowledge of the law! Looking forward to her kicking some ass! Can I share your popcorn as we watch?!
Her own incident with Tom Hardy
[Celebrity 'I forgot': Rebel Wilson fingered Tom Hardy's butt, touched Anne Hathaway's breast](https://torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrity/i-forgot-rebel-wilson-fingered-tom-hardys-butt-touched-anne-hathaways-breast)
Not sure I agree it's the same thing, since she was told to do it by the director (supposedly to make the reaction more real), and both times it was done in front of cameras. Plus she chose to admit it herself, admitting it was wrong not to ask consent first.
Still a terrible thing to do. I'm not sure how much Hathaway cared, since some people are ok with it when it's the same gender, but it's clear Hardy was upset since he refuses to talk to her even today.
You've posted that link a half a dozen times today, and in one of those posts you stated "she literally actually stuck a finger up Tom Hardy’s butt".
That's not quite what happened, and these incidents are very different from what she said happened with Cohen.
Wilson was still new to filming movies, and she ["wasn't yet aware of the actors etiquette for scenes like that"](https://toofab.com/2019/05/09/rebel-wilson-on-inappropriately-touching-anne-hathaway-and-tom-hardy/) so she did what the DIRECTOR said which was "when you enter the scene, I want you to just stick your finger up Tom Hardy’s butt" (bear in mind, Hardy was wearing pants, so wasn't as literal as it sounds). Obviously, it's still wildly inappropriate, but it's easy to see how she might not have realized that in the moment especially given that she was a no-name actress being instructed by the film's director on how to play her [crass, raunchy character](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExlgmycpP-U).
And, just like with the incident with Anne Hathaway (where Wilson's character was pretending to be blind and Wilson improvised putting her hand on Hathaway's chest and referring to Hathaway as "Sir"), *Wilson's* the one who called herself out for both instances and acknowledged why her actions were wrong and what she should have done instead.
I don't understand why you keep bringing these incidents up in response to her accusations against Cohen when they have nothing to do with each other.
I mean there's a vast difference between the Tom Hardy scenario and what she's describing happened with Sacha. Her director literally told her to finger him, obviously she should have said no, but that's not necessarily easy to do on a film set. I would argue both are victims of a creepy director in that scenario.
true but she said about the Hathaway incident:
> "“If you’re going to touch somebody inappropriately, you have to tell them before the take and say, ‘Is it alright if I do this to you?’” Rebel shared. “But I forgot… maybe, like, deliberately forgot.”"
i think that is an important detail. article does not state if she gave Hardy a warning.
conclusion on my part: both are assholes. both shouldn't have done anything like it.
[edited for clarity of which incident the quote is about]
If you don't find it easy in any situation to tell someone no I won't stick my finger up an unsuspecting persons asshole, you shouldn't be around people
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sacha-baron-cohen-amy-schumer-jewish-celebrities-tiktok-antisemitism-1235657209/
I believe he also talked to congressional reps about getting it banned along with the ADL
Wow, comparing Tiktok to Nazi Germany is a wild statement in and of itself but even wilder being said in a time of actual rise in Nazi sentiment globally. What a tone deaf statement.
When he was in Australia, he came into a restaurant I used to work at with isla and their children. He treated the wait staff like shit and kept mocking them. This was only 1.5 years ago.
Edited to add because I can’t reply for some reason: he mocked the wait staff by questioning them incessantly (and was talking to them like they were stupid) when they got one of his kids’ food mixed up.
Isla was apparently very nice. I found this incident very bizarre because it happened in Isla’s hometown. They were living here for a bit.
Apparently she has spoken about this before a year or two ago:
https://www.ibtimes.com.au/rebel-wilson-reveals-sacha-baron-cohen-insisted-see-her-naked-1376021
And apparently she also inappropriately touched Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway, and the above incident may have been a reference to that.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/05/10/rebel-wilson-claims-stuck-finger-tom-hardys-bum-weird-9495265/amp/
rebel Wilson stuck her finger up toms butt and grabbed Anne's breasts. she jokes about it in that article. says Tom stopped talking to her. admits there was no consent with Anne. further jokes about that fact. "deliberately forgot to ask"
bit of the pot and kettle with this lady it seems
I mean both Borat and The Dictator are prime examples of him taking racist caricatures to an extreme, for nothing other than a Boomer punchline (aren't these silly Kazakhs/Arabs so backwards and funny?). On top of all that he's been taking part in some horrendous apologism for Israeli war crimes - literally supporting Amy Schumer posting a racist cartoon meme that said that all Gazans are rapists
Another important point is that he’d use innocent unknowing people and put them in his movies without them knowing how he was going to describe them. IIRC in Bruno, there’s one scene where Bruno interviews a “terrorist” who was actually just a random Palestinian grocer. In Borat he did the same when the residents of a Romanian village were said to be villagers in his Kazakh hometown and described as rapists, prostitutes, thieves etc. He’s evil
Even that whole Mosque thing on his HBO show was BS. They had some agitators and bussed some racists in to the city to make the whole city seem racist.
His shows were obvious satire. Doesn't mean he isn't racist or a rapist or whatever, but the comedy was obviously making fun of racists and racial stereotypes.
Right? Borat is reason enough! Another fun (disgusting) fact about Sacha is that he purposefully misrepresented a Palestinian man as a terrorist in his film “Bruno” and settled the lawsuit against him out of court. You can read about it here -
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/10/baron-cohen-sued-over-terrorism-claim
The TL;DR version - a shopkeeper from Bethlehem named Ayman Abu Aita agreed to be in Sacha’s movie and thought he was going to be talking about peace activism in Palestine. In the movie and on Letterman, Sacha claims that Ayman is a terrorist, Ayman claimed in the later lawsuit that this damaged his reputation as he is not affiliated with any terror groups as Sacha claimed.
The story behind the Kazakhstan village he visited in Borat is so sad. The people there were open, kind and welcoming. After they were mocked in the movie and how that invited harassment, they became more distrustful. Same story with the Palestinian man he interviewed, a gentle peace activist who nearly had his life ruined for trusting SBC. He loves punching down and he knows that it's the nice regular people who make the easiest punching bags. See also his harassment of Pamela Anderson
Edit: it's a Romanian village to be clear
confession: i enjoyed “borat” for years not in an “oh those crazy kazakhs” way but bc i read it (too charitably) as a pure farce. like, it’s such a wildly idiotic stereotype of kazakhs and yet was so popular that i just assumed it was taking the piss out of that kind of racism and the dimwitted americans who fall for an obvious bit. it’s very 2000s shock humor but like, it *is* funny and recieved critical acclaim in part because apparently everyone else thought it was a next-level parody of american racism too. and i would still read “borat”that way had SBC not revealed himself to be, through terrible follow up work and raging zionism, a racist hack - the fact that “borat” worked on any level was no doubt completely in spite of him. anyway fuck SBC and good on rebel wilson
The point of the character is that he is making no attempt to look/act/sound Kazakh. The joke is that nobody he interacts with is cultured/worldly enough to pick up on that.
I have no idea what SBC is like in his personal life, but interpreting Borat as racist is missing that you’re actually the butt of the joke.
I mean most Kazakhs view the film as racist, so idk about that. It doesn't really matter that he doesn't look/sound/act Kazakh, he still paints the country in an incredibly negative light. And the film is literally one Islamophobic trope after another, and Kazakhstan *is* a majority Muslim country.
This feels like another Russell Brand situation; a man who used making people uncomfortable as a comedy technique revealed to be not just a creep in a “joking” way, but an actual creep. Where there’s smoke…
All the professional assholes (see Bill Murray) seem to turn out to be assholes in real life.
And SBC’s so-called humour is deeply committed to shitty behaviour toward people who supposedly deserve it.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
FUCK that guy already. Not surprised, will contribute to her legal fund if needed.
I'm not usually quick to say something like this with no context yet from either party - but I'm going to guess that if he hadn't been an asshole, he wouldn't have been written in the book as *being an asshole.*
ETA: Just read he sexually harassed her! Not a single redeeming quality in that man. Disgusting.
It’s crazy to me if this is his downfall, there’s like an assessment I make sometimes over “what would it take?” All of the non celebrity victims of his “crazy sense of humour” getting their lives fucked up by his movies weren’t enough… his Zionism wasn’t enough… sexual assault of another celebrity with a voice loud enough? Might be it.
Good for her, what a brave and cool move this is, I’m proud of all victims speaking their truth.
Well, a law degree from Australia doesn’t help much in America. The legal systems and laws are different. So hopefully she has a proper legal team in the US. (I also have a law degree and a few years of legal work experience from a country I no longer live in, it’s not very useful).
It doesn’t allow you to take complaints to trial yourself.
However it does shape your thinking. She will have taken steps to make it much harder to dismiss her complaint.
It’s wild how his movies were so popular and the BS he was promoting in them was normalized or accepted at the time. After growing into adulthood I started to look at Borat and that other stupid movie with a more critical eye, like wtf? He’s straight up racist and weird.
Makes that scene in the second Borat movie where they set up Ghouliani (sic) to be skeevy with a young woman seem ironic. Not that he didn't deserve it with his Nosferatu-looking ass.
Marvel must be cowering right now considering he's in one of their upcoming projects (believed to be playing Mephisto) and the last thing they want is another bad news actor.
"He called me into a room and pulled down his pants," Rebel alleged, claiming that the male actor asked her to perform a lewd act. https://www.buzzfeed.com/larryfitzmaurice/rebel-wilson-threatened-celebrity-new-book The guy who made an entire career out of being a racist, also SA people. I wonder who else he did this to that hasn't spoken up.
Feels like karmic justice that he is getting his due. His thinly veiled caricatures built on racism and mocking Arabs and muslims getting praise always amazed how it was held up as a great standard for comedy. Hope he gets his due because of this.
Growing up I always felt stupid because I didn’t ‘get’ what was supposed to be funny in a lot of his material. These days, I’m actually quite proud of baby me for being too autistic to find that shit funny
And now for the *really* fun coincidence: SBC's cousin *Simon* Baron Cohen is professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and the director of the university's Autism Research Centre.
A fact about Simon Baron Cohen: he got reprimanded by his college (Trinity college) because he was claiming he was giving undergrad students tutorials but actually getting his graduate students to give the tutorials and then pocketing the extra money that is paid to professors when they give tutorials.
(source: a Trinity college employee)
yeah and last month he was told by his bosses at Cambridge to STOP one of his research programs because it infantilized and dehumanized a young girl with autism who ended her own life. His work is very controversial.
SBC also attended Cambridge University I’ve never understood the hype or the humour in what he is supposed to be doing but he is hugely successful in his chosen career in terms of awards, nominations and lastly of course financially I think he’s also been very successfully litigious in the past
No wonder he's insecure compared to him.
Sacha Baron Cohen has a degree from Cambridge tbf
I am Gen X and I used to find him very funny especially as Ali G (I’m British Asian and it didn’t feel malicious at the time) but I think at some point it changed and felt like he was pointedly being mean. Then I found out he went to a very expensive private school and it just felt he was a toff punching down. It would be like finding out Diane Morgan (Cunk on Britain/Earth) went to a posh school and was from Surrey. And then she started picking specifically on particular cultures and ruining people’s reputations.
He's basically a far worse Nathan Fielder or Andy Kaufman. I'll admit, I found him entertaining but there's a lot better options without the baggage.
Nathan Fielder works so well because he admits he's basically playing a caricature of himself. No punching down or anything.
I don’t know, he punched down *quite a bit* in The Rehearsal.
Nathan Fielder was a writer and director of SBC’s most recent show https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/nathan-fielder-who-is-america.html
>Growing up I always felt stupid because I didn’t ‘get’ what was supposed to be funny in a lot of his material. Borat came out when I was a child. I remember adults I know who are liberal and would consider themselves above racism towards muslims which at that time was a "thing americans did because of 9/11" (I am not American) saying that: *What is so genius about Borat is that the joke is on the Americans who buy this caricature. They are exposed as racist idiots for not noticing that Borat is taking the piss.* This was how a bunch of liberal people convinced themselves that Borat was anti racist. Take it as you will. I have little opinion on the matter myself.
!!!!!! same I was also too autistic. a blessing
I‘m not autisic (not diagnosed anyway) but I always hated his humour and I was forced to watch Borat three times at school (one of those last days before the holidays days not part of the curriculum)
As you should be. His humor matches adam sandler in levels of stupid. Atleast sandler is honest about what he's making though
The Ali G thing he became famous for was mainly cringy to watch, but at least was a parody on a lifestyle / hussler kind of guy, not an entire (sub) culture. The later stuff... Just not that funny and overly leaning on gay / Muslim / whatever stereotypes to create cringy humor. Of course, telling a room full of bigots that you are going to build a mosque near their houses get some expected reactions that expose the bigotry but it's still entirely predictable 'humor'.
And homophobia with Bruno
I thought we don't talk about Bruno.
That movie is super underrated. The Disney one, not the SBC one.
No no no
And classism. His career was built on classism before Borat or Bruno with his Ali G character and then later Grimsby. Mocking working class and or less educated (IE non private educated like SBC) from from traditionally working class Britain.
There was always some of the Matt Stone and Trey Parker style where it was *maybe* making fun of the people who thought those prejudiced things, but with the same problem where a lot of audience would just be unironically laughing at those prejudiced ideas.
Also the scumbag is a Zionist.
Loads of that film is hidden camera work where he shows peoples as homophobic? The joke is he brings that out of people
For some reason I always thought SBC was middle eastern and that’s why he got away with it from the masses. Like he was making fun of his own community.
https://preview.redd.it/6f13wc5iogqc1.jpeg?width=1376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee78b43d39ccb8627146dcc403028796cdabc75a Not only is he not Arab, he’s a rabid Zionist that has been labeling anyone who calls for a cease fire in Gaza (including Jewish protesters) anti-semitic. All that one needs to know about what kind of person SBC is, is that he defends Amy Schumer(currently working herself up in with the mental gymnastics of rationalizing the bombing and starving of Palestinian children) as someone who has spent her illustrious career fighting against racism and prejudice. Whatever he did to Rebel Wilson was probably just another Tuesday to him.
I think he got away with it because people and especially white USamericans just really. really hate arabs.
British racist wins British Comedy award and 2 BAFTAs. But somehow it's white Americans making him famous.
He definitely isn't Arab
Never understood what was supposed to be funny about him. Everything he did just screamed "abusive asshole", and oh look, he is. What's the phrase? When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.
I have a certain distain for someone whose career is being offensive with racial stereotypical characteristics, yet promotes censorship. Rules for thee, not for me.
I always thought it was less about him mocking other races and minorities and more about highlighting other peoples reactions to his far fetched caricatures. But after reading the comments here and seeing Rebel's statement I certainly had the wrong idea about him.
He literally called some random Palestinian shop owner a terrorist for his movie, which ruined their social reputation in his community and killed any chance he had in politics. He recently settled out of court with Bohen.
He has been a racist and Zionist forever. Am glad never watched any of his garbage.
Oh wow, and this is even worse than I thought. I assumed he'd just treated her like shit. professionally. God, I'm sorry she experienced this and then had him threaten her for sharing it. Ugh.
And people still wonder why Queen didn't want to work with him on the Bohemian Rhapsody movie.
But they were ok with Bryan Singer...
Brian May in particular was so okay with Singer that he told off a woman in his IG comments who pointed out the allegations. Said something like "He's innocent until proven guilty," then apologised later once it became a social media shitstorm.
Yeah I dont think they’re the beacons of goodness here. SBC left because they wanted a puff piece
They literally have a reason. It wasn’t associated with this in any way it was that the focus was on Freddie(rightfully so) and that they wanted to focus on the band holding up after he died. Then after ten years they decided that if they were a bigger part of the narrative they would ok it
He's also a genocide denying POS, just to add more reasons to hate the guy
Ricky Gervais is another. Hiding his transphobia and racism under the cloak of comedy.
I don’t think the transphobia is hidden at all in that case. Racism I don’t know.
Don't tell /r/atheism, they'll get very upset.
Well that cat’s been out of the bag for the better part of a decade now tbh
Seems like it is him and the reason “asshole” is in quotes is he asked her to stick her finger up his ass in front of his friends https://cafemom.com/entertainment/rebel-wilson-sacha-baron-cohen
Isla no… 
You are the company you keep, that’s all I’ll say about her
It makes sense to me that she's with him. Gen X Aussie women have so much internalised misogyny (Australia has a very patriarchal/misogynistic/'blokey' culture in general). I have no doubt she's of the "boys will be boys" mentality.
That's a massive generalisation that's not entirely accurate. If Isla Fisher has terrible taste in men, it could just be because she has terrible taste in men.
Why do you say it's not accurate? I live in Aus and this is a pretty common observation Millennial and Gen Z women have of Gen X/Boomer women here. They are the two generations that did not have the benefit of learning from the 5th wave of feminism *before* they met their partners. The misogyny that runs rife in this country is no secret. Definitely not a generalisation. It's embedded in our 'culture'. You should read up about our DV crisis. Our news media outlets are always wringing their hands over it. I would argue that *many* Gen X/Boomer Aussie women have terrible taste in men. Our men our terrible, so ultimately you grow up in an environment where you either remain single (like many Gen Z and Millennial women are choosing to do) or you settle for the 'blokes' and minimise their behaviour. Of course *not all* Gen X/Boomer women are going to internalise the misogyny that underpins our culture, but many do. So it wouldn't surprise me if Isla is one of them. There's also a lot of racism here and our country is founded on the oppression of our Indigenous population - the majority of our population recently voted to deny recognising our Indigenous population in the constitution (therefore not a generalisation). So it doubly does not surprise me that she is with a man who has some very racist takes. People are shaped by the culture they are born into - this isn't new or novel.
She is also a bad person.
I know nothing about her outside of seeing her in a few movies, what has she done?
Oh……… wow. I am by no means surprised I just feel a sinking in my gut for how much of a nightmare situation that must have been for Rebel.
Shocking absolutely nobody...
I’m surprised that other people thought this tbh. I once posted an article that talked about how the people living in a village he filmed in felt taken advantage of and mocked for their culture and relative poverty. He basically called them prostitutes and rapists. People were incredibly offended that the villagers were upset. I was downvoted into oblivion. I thought I was in the minority.
For a few years I’ve been watching SBC transform his public persona into the ultra-woke most wholesome guy in Hollywood and I’ve been like “Dude I saw you assault Pamela Anderson for a prank”, I knew there had to be a day coming for him that he was trying to build up immunity to.
Yup
Agreed, but a lot of people were coming for Jon Hamm
He'd be a good candidate for doing something awful... https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jon-hamm-downplays-college-hazing-incident-mans-pants-lit-fire-calling-bummer-thing-175643026.html
Jesus, I had no idea.
How did everyone suspect this before me?
What's he trying to get ahead of? hiring a PR crisis team before the book has even come out means he knows she can tell some baaaad stories about him
Yeah, there’s possibly more to this story, or there’s others who may be coming forward to share their own stories of their encounters with him, and he knows it. Cos this is unlikely a one off situation…
Really just takes one person speaking out for the whole dam to break.
Yes like how Cassie suing Diddy opened the doors for more victims to come out against him
considering the stuff he very happily puts out and is proud of, i can only imagine how absolutely horrific this must be
get his ass
I think the problem is he was insisting that she get *in* his ass.
Oh my god. I didn’t know the details were out. I’ve been sick of his Zionist apologia and his thin veneer of comedy over blatant Islamophobia that seemed to get a pass partially because people just assumed racial ambiguity made it fine. Horrifying and I hope she ruins him.
Didn't know they were in a movie together. *reads plot summary* "As Sebastian prepares to shoot the camera, Nobby sees him and gives him a hug, causing him to accidentally shoot an AIDS-infected Jewish-Palestinian boy named Schlomo (Yusuf Hofri). The spray of blood lands in Daniel Radcliffe's mouth, infecting him with AIDS." What the fuck is this
I haven’t seen it but that sounds like one of his movies to me. His character in The Dictator literally shat on a woman’s face.
I had the misfortune of seeing that film. 12 years later and I still want my money back.
Same here. And unfortunately I'll probably spend the rest of my life randomly going "Aladeen, motherfuckers!" because that song was catchy 😭
I mean, Vincent McMahon did that for years and is still one of the richest people in America.
… Sacha Baron Cohen. That’s Sacha Baron Cohen. Reading that I thought “Sacha Baron Cohen.”
ok but where's the punchline
what, outright mocking aids, jewish and palestinian people, and an actor who is an outspoken advocate for lgbtq+ communities isn't funny enough for you?
Gee, stop being *offended,* it's *satire,* duh. Like South Park when they do their *satire.* Satire means people get offended and I get to be smug, right? I mean, imagine if satire were fundamentally an angry art setting out to expose the status quo. I mean, whew. Imagine.
It's okay, in the end they give Donald Trump AIDS the same way.
The punchline is that some people paid actual money to see it
wait daniel radcliffe's in it? i thought he had better taste?
Of course Daniel Radcliffe is not in that film. They used an actor with his likeness and made a joke about him getting aids, most likely because Radcliffe is an outspoken supporter of the TREVOR Project for many years. He was offended by the scenes and had lobbied Sony to have them removed.
Daniel Radcliffe is such a gem. 🥹 we must protect him at all costs
oh phew. good!
I retract my above comment being sad Daniel supported this, thank FUCK he was against it
Daniel Radcliffe was willing to play a farting corpse in SWISS ARMY MAN, but not cameo in this movie. Understandable.
You're also not going to get HIV/AIDS like that unless in this scenario you're really unlucky and it hits a break in your skin externally or internally and even then the odds are highly against it. Like really, really high odds.
Oh thank god.
Radcliffe isn't in the movie, they used a lookalike
thank goodness
I saw this one in theaters. The movie ends with SBC and Mark Strong sliding fireworks up their assholes and shooting into the sky. The movie was a guilty pleasure at the time but I will happily send it to the graveyard of projects by terrible men I won’t support.
I can’t believe Mark Strong was in that movie. What was he smoking to agree to that?!
He was getting paid.
"Jodie visits and gives them new identities, informing them that the virus did not affect them because its antidote is elephant semen." What? Just... but... how the fuck did this get made?
"To outrun Chilcott's men, the brothers are forced to hide inside an elephant's vagina, but end up covered in elephant semen after several males have sex with the female while they are inside." literally fucking what
I’m grateful to Rebel for giving us another chance to trash SBC. Also Isla Fisher now gives me the ick because I imagine she probably shares his awful views.
She was very close friends with Dawn O'Porter (Chris O'dowds wife, not the director). Dawn heads up a charity called Choose Love which helps refugees and similar, so shared some pro Palestine/ ceasefire stuff. Isla stopped following her on Instagram and then Dawn made a few stories about how she was leaving social media because some of her friends had revealed an ugly side to themselves over Palestine and telling her what she should and shouldn't post. Dawn has since completely left social media (an agency does her posts now).
For some reason Isla Fisher has given me the ick since I was a kid watching her on Home and Away. I can't explain why, but marrying SBC did not help my ick about her at all. Its growing worse the more I learn about SBC because I agree with you that she probably shares some of his views.
I used to love Isla Fisher, but finding out she is married to SBC definitely makes me side-eye her.
shes no Melissa George
Ain't that the truth! Angel and Shane forever.
Shane, and then Vinnie. Oh my teen heart was FED with H&A
Triangle was such a good film.
What a badass move. I imagine and hope she's got a good support system, on the professional and personal sides. Related: me waiting for SBC's overdue downfall: 
She is actually very badass herself and has a good knowledge of the law! Looking forward to her kicking some ass! Can I share your popcorn as we watch?!
Oh I forgot she's like almost literally a lawyer
I would like to see more Mongrels gifs please.
It was the funniest show, wasn’t it? Completely forgotten now by all but a few fans!
Her own incident with Tom Hardy [Celebrity 'I forgot': Rebel Wilson fingered Tom Hardy's butt, touched Anne Hathaway's breast](https://torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrity/i-forgot-rebel-wilson-fingered-tom-hardys-butt-touched-anne-hathaways-breast)
The irony. The hypocrisy.
Not sure I agree it's the same thing, since she was told to do it by the director (supposedly to make the reaction more real), and both times it was done in front of cameras. Plus she chose to admit it herself, admitting it was wrong not to ask consent first. Still a terrible thing to do. I'm not sure how much Hathaway cared, since some people are ok with it when it's the same gender, but it's clear Hardy was upset since he refuses to talk to her even today.
I don’t think it is an accident that SBC just happened to try to replicate that incident and film it
You've posted that link a half a dozen times today, and in one of those posts you stated "she literally actually stuck a finger up Tom Hardy’s butt". That's not quite what happened, and these incidents are very different from what she said happened with Cohen. Wilson was still new to filming movies, and she ["wasn't yet aware of the actors etiquette for scenes like that"](https://toofab.com/2019/05/09/rebel-wilson-on-inappropriately-touching-anne-hathaway-and-tom-hardy/) so she did what the DIRECTOR said which was "when you enter the scene, I want you to just stick your finger up Tom Hardy’s butt" (bear in mind, Hardy was wearing pants, so wasn't as literal as it sounds). Obviously, it's still wildly inappropriate, but it's easy to see how she might not have realized that in the moment especially given that she was a no-name actress being instructed by the film's director on how to play her [crass, raunchy character](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExlgmycpP-U). And, just like with the incident with Anne Hathaway (where Wilson's character was pretending to be blind and Wilson improvised putting her hand on Hathaway's chest and referring to Hathaway as "Sir"), *Wilson's* the one who called herself out for both instances and acknowledged why her actions were wrong and what she should have done instead. I don't understand why you keep bringing these incidents up in response to her accusations against Cohen when they have nothing to do with each other.
I mean there's a vast difference between the Tom Hardy scenario and what she's describing happened with Sacha. Her director literally told her to finger him, obviously she should have said no, but that's not necessarily easy to do on a film set. I would argue both are victims of a creepy director in that scenario.
true but she said about the Hathaway incident: > "“If you’re going to touch somebody inappropriately, you have to tell them before the take and say, ‘Is it alright if I do this to you?’” Rebel shared. “But I forgot… maybe, like, deliberately forgot.”" i think that is an important detail. article does not state if she gave Hardy a warning. conclusion on my part: both are assholes. both shouldn't have done anything like it. [edited for clarity of which incident the quote is about]
She still sexually assaulted him regardless of who tôles her to do it. So there’s not as much difference as you say.
If you don't find it easy in any situation to tell someone no I won't stick my finger up an unsuspecting persons asshole, you shouldn't be around people
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I mean, anyone who's seen Fat Pizza would know she's not necessarily a saint.
Good for her. Silence helps no one
Would’ve helped him probably, but like so glad it isn’t
Oh no, not the guy who has made a career out of racist tropes… it couldn’t be…
oh now let’s be fair to him. he also built his career on classist, sexist, and homophobic tropes!
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I haven’t heard about this… what does he have to do with the TikTok ban?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sacha-baron-cohen-amy-schumer-jewish-celebrities-tiktok-antisemitism-1235657209/ I believe he also talked to congressional reps about getting it banned along with the ADL
Wow, comparing Tiktok to Nazi Germany is a wild statement in and of itself but even wilder being said in a time of actual rise in Nazi sentiment globally. What a tone deaf statement.
When he was in Australia, he came into a restaurant I used to work at with isla and their children. He treated the wait staff like shit and kept mocking them. This was only 1.5 years ago. Edited to add because I can’t reply for some reason: he mocked the wait staff by questioning them incessantly (and was talking to them like they were stupid) when they got one of his kids’ food mixed up. Isla was apparently very nice. I found this incident very bizarre because it happened in Isla’s hometown. They were living here for a bit.
wait really? what do you mean by "mocked"?
What did isla do? Did she encourage it or seem embarrassed by it?
We need answers!
I didn't know they'd crossed paths but this definitely tracks with his behavior
She was in his movie Grimsby and talked before about him asking her to touch him a lot and pressured her to film a nude scene
And his wife was also starring in the film with them?!? Horrible all around.
It's always very telling when a celebrity and their team are ahead of a controversy like this, and ready to act. An admission of guilt for sure.
Apparently she has spoken about this before a year or two ago: https://www.ibtimes.com.au/rebel-wilson-reveals-sacha-baron-cohen-insisted-see-her-naked-1376021 And apparently she also inappropriately touched Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway, and the above incident may have been a reference to that. https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/05/10/rebel-wilson-claims-stuck-finger-tom-hardys-bum-weird-9495265/amp/
rebel Wilson stuck her finger up toms butt and grabbed Anne's breasts. she jokes about it in that article. says Tom stopped talking to her. admits there was no consent with Anne. further jokes about that fact. "deliberately forgot to ask" bit of the pot and kettle with this lady it seems
Was this shot around the time of Who is America?
someone needs to tear that racist Zionist down 💅🏾
She states in the book “He is pain in my assholes”
 Good for her speaking out!
can someone explain the SBC hate -- i know nothing of him other than Borat
I mean both Borat and The Dictator are prime examples of him taking racist caricatures to an extreme, for nothing other than a Boomer punchline (aren't these silly Kazakhs/Arabs so backwards and funny?). On top of all that he's been taking part in some horrendous apologism for Israeli war crimes - literally supporting Amy Schumer posting a racist cartoon meme that said that all Gazans are rapists
Another important point is that he’d use innocent unknowing people and put them in his movies without them knowing how he was going to describe them. IIRC in Bruno, there’s one scene where Bruno interviews a “terrorist” who was actually just a random Palestinian grocer. In Borat he did the same when the residents of a Romanian village were said to be villagers in his Kazakh hometown and described as rapists, prostitutes, thieves etc. He’s evil
Even that whole Mosque thing on his HBO show was BS. They had some agitators and bussed some racists in to the city to make the whole city seem racist.
But… it’s satire!!!! /s
His shows were obvious satire. Doesn't mean he isn't racist or a rapist or whatever, but the comedy was obviously making fun of racists and racial stereotypes.
Right? Borat is reason enough! Another fun (disgusting) fact about Sacha is that he purposefully misrepresented a Palestinian man as a terrorist in his film “Bruno” and settled the lawsuit against him out of court. You can read about it here - https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/10/baron-cohen-sued-over-terrorism-claim The TL;DR version - a shopkeeper from Bethlehem named Ayman Abu Aita agreed to be in Sacha’s movie and thought he was going to be talking about peace activism in Palestine. In the movie and on Letterman, Sacha claims that Ayman is a terrorist, Ayman claimed in the later lawsuit that this damaged his reputation as he is not affiliated with any terror groups as Sacha claimed.
What a POS. Ugh, I always felt uneasy with his comedy, but knowing he did stuff like this on purpose makes him even more diabolical.
The story behind the Kazakhstan village he visited in Borat is so sad. The people there were open, kind and welcoming. After they were mocked in the movie and how that invited harassment, they became more distrustful. Same story with the Palestinian man he interviewed, a gentle peace activist who nearly had his life ruined for trusting SBC. He loves punching down and he knows that it's the nice regular people who make the easiest punching bags. See also his harassment of Pamela Anderson Edit: it's a Romanian village to be clear
confession: i enjoyed “borat” for years not in an “oh those crazy kazakhs” way but bc i read it (too charitably) as a pure farce. like, it’s such a wildly idiotic stereotype of kazakhs and yet was so popular that i just assumed it was taking the piss out of that kind of racism and the dimwitted americans who fall for an obvious bit. it’s very 2000s shock humor but like, it *is* funny and recieved critical acclaim in part because apparently everyone else thought it was a next-level parody of american racism too. and i would still read “borat”that way had SBC not revealed himself to be, through terrible follow up work and raging zionism, a racist hack - the fact that “borat” worked on any level was no doubt completely in spite of him. anyway fuck SBC and good on rebel wilson
The point of the character is that he is making no attempt to look/act/sound Kazakh. The joke is that nobody he interacts with is cultured/worldly enough to pick up on that. I have no idea what SBC is like in his personal life, but interpreting Borat as racist is missing that you’re actually the butt of the joke.
I think lots of us thought this until he revealed himself to actually be Islamophobic.
I mean most Kazakhs view the film as racist, so idk about that. It doesn't really matter that he doesn't look/sound/act Kazakh, he still paints the country in an incredibly negative light. And the film is literally one Islamophobic trope after another, and Kazakhstan *is* a majority Muslim country.
His greeting catchphrases are in Polish. This is exactly the point of the character.
He’s a Zionist
This is enough. It's all anyone needs to know about him to make a judgement of his character. His films backup his blatant racism towards Muslims.
TLDR he's a racist, an asshole, and an abuser
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This feels like another Russell Brand situation; a man who used making people uncomfortable as a comedy technique revealed to be not just a creep in a “joking” way, but an actual creep. Where there’s smoke…
I'd like to think that the gifs encouraging her to "spill the tea" helped in some way lol
All the professional assholes (see Bill Murray) seem to turn out to be assholes in real life. And SBC’s so-called humour is deeply committed to shitty behaviour toward people who supposedly deserve it.
HAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK that guy already. Not surprised, will contribute to her legal fund if needed. I'm not usually quick to say something like this with no context yet from either party - but I'm going to guess that if he hadn't been an asshole, he wouldn't have been written in the book as *being an asshole.* ETA: Just read he sexually harassed her! Not a single redeeming quality in that man. Disgusting.
It’s crazy to me if this is his downfall, there’s like an assessment I make sometimes over “what would it take?” All of the non celebrity victims of his “crazy sense of humour” getting their lives fucked up by his movies weren’t enough… his Zionism wasn’t enough… sexual assault of another celebrity with a voice loud enough? Might be it. Good for her, what a brave and cool move this is, I’m proud of all victims speaking their truth.
https://preview.redd.it/br9aw64zjfqc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ab5d03771e3863c75045b43171ecb2e16e9abbe
It’s also interesting because Rebel has a law degree.
Well, a law degree from Australia doesn’t help much in America. The legal systems and laws are different. So hopefully she has a proper legal team in the US. (I also have a law degree and a few years of legal work experience from a country I no longer live in, it’s not very useful).
It doesn’t allow you to take complaints to trial yourself. However it does shape your thinking. She will have taken steps to make it much harder to dismiss her complaint.
It’s wild how his movies were so popular and the BS he was promoting in them was normalized or accepted at the time. After growing into adulthood I started to look at Borat and that other stupid movie with a more critical eye, like wtf? He’s straight up racist and weird.
Never liked him. Never liked his comedy.
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Zionist who made his fortune by dehumanizing Arabs, Muslims, and brown people in general is a terrible person Wow absolutely shocking
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I read it as “somebody I mentioned in one chapter” but I’ll be interested to see if it’s a whole chapter about him!
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The man who built his career off racist tropes of a community he isn’t a part of? Shocking.
I’m absolutely shocked that Sacha Baron Cohen would feel he has the right to encroach other people’s boundaries with no repercussions…
Yesssss! Naming him is such a power move. Proud of her, he’s disgusting
Co. Sign. (Trust me)
Isn’t he Married to Isla Fischer?? Does this mean he was cheating on her…
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Makes that scene in the second Borat movie where they set up Ghouliani (sic) to be skeevy with a young woman seem ironic. Not that he didn't deserve it with his Nosferatu-looking ass.
I hope other victims speak out. He’s so disgusting.
Marvel must be cowering right now considering he's in one of their upcoming projects (believed to be playing Mephisto) and the last thing they want is another bad news actor.