Well, it’s official: The Oscars will now be 100 percent not funny at all this Sunday! (Not including Billy Crystal’s 45 minute silent ode parody song to The Artist of course.) That’s because organizers have pulled Sacha Baron Cohen’s tickets upon learning that he was planning to show up to the ceremony dressed as The Dictator, the title character to his upcoming movie who looks like a cross between Kim Jong Il and Fidel Castro’s “ropa vieja” (Cuban for his crotch). Now: Cohen is BANNED from attending.
According to Deadline, word spread that Cohen was going to walk the red carpet in character as a ruthless Middle Eastern dictator, then change into a tuxedo for the actual show itself. The nerve of that man. Thinking he could actually have any sort of sense of humor at a show whose highlight is the In Memorium montage.
Deadline is quick to point out the double-standard of this banning:
An Oscars spokesperson acknowledged to Deadline yesterday: ”We would hope that every studio knows that this is a bad idea. The Red Carpet is not about stunting.” Oh really? Then why did Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park crossdress down the Red Carpet as J-Lo and Gwyneth Paltrow in evening gowns in 2000? Or Ben Stiller appear as an Oscar presenter in full blue Avatar makeup and hair in 2010?
Ahead, take a look at the trailer for The Dictator… not the red BANNED version sadly.
