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Your support makes all the difference.Tonight Showtime airs the third episode of Who Is America?, a show that might be Sacha Baron Cohen’s most audacious project yet.
We’ve already seen former Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders and Dana Rohrabacher be fooled by the comedian, and we know Sarah Palin and Roy Moore are still to come – will tonight be their turn for humiliation?
So far we’ve seen the characters Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., PhD, Dr. Nira Cain-N’Degeocello, Rick Sherman, Erran Morad and Gio Monaldo get people to publicly back absurd initiatives, and episode 3 very possibly might introduce a new absurdist caricature.
Episode 2 was stronger and sharper than one, climaxing with a hilarious scene in which the residents of Trump-voting small town were informed by Dr. Nira that the millions of dollars worth of investment in their town would come in the form of America’s largest Mosque.
Can Baron Cohen top this stunt? Watch along with me below as I give my thoughts on the episode and fill you in on all the notable people who unwittingly participate.
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The real heroes of this show are the producers and handlers who must spend ages convincing participants this is a real show.
Dr. Nira's rap battle was good fun, but a disappointing episode on the whole.
The Bible Belt Republican baiting feels too easy by this point, and skewering politicians who are no longer really in the frame seems like a bit of a pointless exercise.
Difficult though they'd be to get, this show needs a Sarah Huckabee Sanders or a Jeff Sessions
Or going a little outside the box, an internet thought leader. A Pod Save America bro or a performatively woke celebrity
I feel like I've seen a Republican politician persuaded to endorse an absurdly racist initiative so many times. Let's see a Democratic politician backing a drive to make hugs be simulated with no actual touching to avoid any possible sexual misconduct or some nonsense.
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