Generally, he seems sanguine about the experience: “Everybody loves seeing well-known people get duped. And that’s when I said, ‘Guys, I don’t want to be rude you’re guests in my home. The sun is many millions of miles away from the moon.’ At that point, I realized something was really wrong. “And he said maybe it was an eclipse of the moon and the sun eclipsed the moon. And I said if it were an eclipse, it would have been dark,” Koppel told T.H.R. When Koppel pointed out that the time had to be wrong, since the picture depicted daylight, things got strange-and suspicious. Koppel, whose wife has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (C.O.P.D.), tried to speak with Cohen’s character about that-but instead, Cohen quickly transitioned the conversation to arguing about the crowd size at Donald Trump’s inauguration, showing Koppel a photo of the crowd with a digital clock showing the time as 11 P.M. Cohen showed up to the interview in Koppel’s home in a wheelchair, “with an oxygen tank hanging off one of the handles.” (He also used this costume to fool Sarah Palin, but more on that later.) Koppel figured out the ruse midway through his sit-down, and while he wasn’t as gleeful as Rhodes, he was good-natured and handled the moment professionally. When Cohen’s team approached Koppel, they said they were working on a project titled Age of Reason, capturing “conversations with distinguished experts in science and public policy, highlighting the brightest and most reputable minds on today’s most important topics,” T.H.R. If I didn't know better, I would say you could be Fred Armisen in disguise.’ Well, he wasn’t Armisen, but I wasn’t too far off.”ĭuring the interview, Cohen posed as an extreme-left academic, who took frequent bathroom breaks due to “intestinal distress.” (Rhodes said it was during this time that he suspects Cohen’s team fixed his makeup.) You look like you are coming in straight from central casting. “When I first met this very tall, oddly dressed man, I said live on air: ‘Well, my goodness. “And what a sight he was!” Rhodes wrote for T.H.R. Rhodes’s description of what happened next seems downright gleeful he used terms like “ingenious” to describe the gambit, and admitted “it worked like a charm.” Nira Cain,” a gender and women’s studies professor from Reed College. The Georgia-based conservative radio host told The Hollywood Reporter that he first received an e-mail from a producer who called herself Sarah Taylor and said she was working on a series called Bridging the Divide, aimed at “trying to find common ground in the midst of our deeply divided partisan times.” For this trick, Cohen styled himself as “Dr. As for how he feels about being ensnared in this latest project, Gaetz seemed ecstatic: “I can’t wait to see it.” The congressman noted that he’s a huge Cohen fan, even doing a Borat impression during his interview with the Daily Beast. And so there were moments where we just sat there staring at each other.” “But I have a very high tolerance for awkward moments. “I don’t know where that came from.” Well, in his defense, there are a lot of open White House jobs right now.“I recall he would ask these questions and I would give answers and then he would just sit there, kind of like hoping for some advance of the moment,” Gaetz said. I didn’t hear that little thing before that,” he said, referring to that would-blow-for-Trump comment. “Then the other thing - the only thing I got was that he would offer me a job. This tango of words also hindered Arpaio’s ability to hear the word blow before job. What was that? He was talking about illegals coming over working with their hands on their job.” Sure! I thought he was talking about - the president has gold ,” he explained, according to the Washington Examiner. “So he’s talking and I couldn’t understand him. Before the episode’s release, Arpaio blasted Cohen for duping him in such a manner, saying by the end of his segment he was “a little concerned” that he “walked into this trap.” (He also admitted he didn’t fully read the contract given by producers.) Speaking at a town hall earlier this week, Arpaio is now opening up a little more about how exactly he managed to get duped, likening his experience to a “bad mistake” he never wants to think about again. In this week’s Who Is America? episode, a new Sacha Baron Cohen character named OMGWhizzBoyOMG manages to corral Sheriff Joe Arpaio into “unboxing” some cute toys with him - oh, and to talk about how Arpaio would accept a hypothetical blowjob from President Trump if requested to do such a thing.
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