Sacha Baron Cohen Taped an Interview for Who Is America? That Was Too Dark Even for Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Showtime series Who Is America? raised a lot of provocative questions about our country, from the simple (was former Georgia state representative Jason Spencer too dumb and sociopathic to represent the American people?) to the profound (is anyone dumb and sociopathic enough to represent the American people?). One question it didn’t raise, however, was if there were any lines Cohen wouldn’t cross. The premise of the show’s best segments, as Lili Loofbourow observed, was creating a safe space for its targets to be themselves, then seeing just how far they’d go. That doesn’t work if the host puts the brakes on things, and there was nothing on the show, which ranged from extremely dark to extremely scatological, to suggest that there was anything Cohen wouldn’t air. It turns out that wasn’t entirely true, as the man behind Ali G and Borat explained to Deadline. There was one segment that was too dark even for pay cable, an interview Cohen conducted in-character as Gio Monaldo, the white-haired Italian billionaire Cohen plays when pranking the super-rich and their enablers:

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