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Oh My God.

EA mentioned this in a previous post but I was up last night and saw portions of the first episode before laughing myself to sleep. I set the DVR to record the second episode that followed and will watch later today, but this is just too hilarious, weird, surreal, etc to be true... right?

If it is all true, then Cohen is a genius. He even got a Georgia Republican lawmaker to say the N word.

Yeah, this is America (woo, ayy)
Guns in my area (word, my area)
I got the strap (ayy, ayy)
I gotta carry 'em

It opened with an interview with Bernie Sanders, and Cohen kept trying to explain to him that we should stop criticizing the top 1% and push the 99% into the 1%. Sanders said if everyone is in the 1% it wouldn't be the 1% anymore, it would be the 100%. Cohen then pulled out his files with a form explaining the "simple math." In one column he had 1% and 99% in the other. He was going on and on about how pushing over the 9 from one side would give us 19% and the look on Bernie's face was priceless.

So Cohen doesn't understand bell curves. Should we be surprised?

SteelHead wrote:So Cohen doesn't understand bell curves. Should we be surprised?

The imaginary character he was (unknown to his interlocutor) portraying was presented as not understanding bell curves, or even simple math, certainly.

That does not mean that Cohen himself is as ignorant as the character he created.

Ahhh.... I don't watch much TV and missed that it was a parody.

Mea culpa

Yes, satire, parody, that's his shtick. He dressed up as an overweight Confederate Flag carrying Redneck when interviewing Sanders, and then he was a long haired hippie Liberal professor when in South Carolina to confront a couple of politicians in their home. He was also an ex-Mossad agent fighting for the NRA.

Took a second peruse of the OP for me to realize that the Cohen in question is Sacha Baron Cohen. I need to pay better attention sometimes.