Borat Star Crashed a Milan Fashion Show For New Movie

By Alex in Crime & Law, Fashion on Sep 27, 2008 at 9:49 am

British comedy actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who played Borat and Ali G., crashed a Milan Fashion show by jumping onto the stage and strutting along the catwalk in character for his new movie "Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt."

Telegraph has the story:

Baron Cohen and his team used fake passes to fool security guards into letting them into a backstage area of a show by the Italian label Iceberg.

One of the comedian’s team, dressed in a head-to-toe velcro suit, caused chaos by running around and careering into clothes racks.

In footage aired on Italian television, flustered fashionistas screamed "security, security" until the man was manhandled away by security guards.

Here’s a video clip of the stunt (he was arrested), as taken by an Italian news crew: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]

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caitlin13
Sep 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I can’t stand that kind of humor.
Tim Giachetti
Sep 27th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Why isn’t his “15 minutes” up yet.
Have despised his brand of humor. After 2 minutes of Ali G, I turned off my tv, cut off the cord, threw it in front of a train, then washed my eyes with bleach.
Lord of the Manor
Sep 27th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Tim and caitlin13, you guys have no sense of humour. SBC is, and always will be, hilarious.
luvpumpkns
Sep 27th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
count me in as someone with no sense of humor. seeing real-life people get angry and confrontational isn’t funny to me. it just makes me uncomfortable.
caitlin13
Sep 27th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I have a sense of humor. I just find that ‘humor’ to be immature and mean spirited.
ted
Sep 27th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I caught about two minutes of Ali G once – it was crap. I couldn’t figure out exactly what he was making fun of.

Never saw Borat – sounded like a dumb idea for a movie. Now, he’s just trying to prolong our agony?
Peter
Sep 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Well, there’s your problem, ted (and Tim too, I guess).

Only watching two minutes of Sasha is like people that only watch 2 minutes of Stephen Colbert before deciding that they hate him. You need to first understand what’s going on or you miss the satire of their shtick. I made the same mistake when Ali G was first on, and didn’t give it a chance until a friend forced me to a few years later.

By the way, even if the movie doesn’t SEEM good, I would at least give it a chance, considering it was one of the best-reviewed films of 2006 (http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/).
Brammi
Sep 27th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Well color me stupid– I replayed the first twenty seconds THREE TIMES before realizing that it was the guy draped in all that fabric who was the crasher, not the guy in grey who jumped up and grabbed him.

I’ve obviously seen to many ugly-ass fashion shows.
valerie
Sep 28th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Hate the characters he plays and the acid undertone to what he does. He laughs at people, not with people. can’t bear to watch him. Send him back to the UK.
Moodindigo
Sep 29th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Immature, mean-spirited, laughing at people rather than with them. Love it. Can’t wait for the new one.
Algonkin
Sep 29th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I think the man is brilliant. He’s the new mellinium’s Andy Kaufman in my opinion.

It’s all about laughter…nothing else.
Algonkin
Sep 29th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Ooops! typo…. “millennium”

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