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Sacha Baron Cohen is known for his special brand of comedy and recently, his successful ‘Who Is America?’ series. For those not familiar with the popular show, just picture Cohen dressing up as random characters and attempting to embarrass famous people by asking them stupid questions.
But with any form of great comedy, there always lurks a dark story behind it. In an interview with Deadline, Cohen revealed that there were some scenes that were just downright disturbing and he felt uncomfortable airing them. He revealed one of these instances, saying that the dark emerged after he questioned a Los Angeles concierge.
Here’s what Cohen said:
“We were shooting some of this at the time of Harvey Weinstein.
We wanted to investigate how does someone like Harvey Weinstein get away with criminality, essentially. And the network that surrounds him. During the interview, I revealed that basically Gio has molested an eight-year-old boy.
Now, mind you, this is extreme comedy and we thought that the guy would leave the room. Instead, this concierge stays in the room and I go, listen, you’ve got to help me get rid of the problem. And this guy starts advising Gio how to get rid of this issue.
We even at one point talk about murdering the boy, and the concierge is just saying, ‘Well, listen, I’m really sorry. In this country, we can’t just drown the boy. This is America, we don’t do that.’ And then, in the end, he puts me in touch with a lawyer who can silence the boy. It became really dark stuff.
At the end of the interview I say, listen, I want to go out and celebrate now. Can you get me a date for tonight?
He says, ‘What do you mean, a date?’ I go, you know, like a young man. He says, ‘Well, what kind of age?’ I say, lower than Bar Mitzvah but older than eight.
And he says, ‘Yeah, I can put you in touch with somebody who can get you some boys like that.’
We immediately turned the footage over to the FBI.
We thought, perhaps there’s a pedophile ring in Las Vegas that’s operating for these very wealthy men.
And this concierge had said that he’d worked for politicians and various billionaires. But in the end the FBI decided not to pursue it.”
Well, are you surprised? Welcome to the world we live in. For more disturbing entertainment, check out SyFy’s Channel Zero Releases Disturbing Trailers!
