Gay Kiss Causes Crowd Riot At Suspected Baron Cohen ‘Bruno’ Prank

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 8:35am

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing _ a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of “Borat” fame.

“We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived,” said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.

Matt Labov, a Los Angeles-based publicist for Baron Cohen, said he had no comment Monday about the faked fights. One of Baron Cohen’s movies is due out next year.
The day after the June 5 Texarkana bout, Fort Smith’s convention center hosted “Blue Collar Brawlin.’” Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named “Straight Dave” would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.

The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell in the film “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”

Producers said “there would be a romantic embrace,” Holland said. “They said it was kind of to essentially make fun, poke fun at wrestling _ two guys rolling around on the floor, all sweaty.”

An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600’s reaction as the two men “went right up to the line” of the city’s morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.

The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. “It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”

Holland said it took officers about 45 minutes to clear the convention center, as the two actors sprinted away through a specially set-aside tunnel.

While the comedian's camp refuses to acknowledge or deny having any part in the stunt, there's no questioning it bears all the hallmarks of an SBC production: outraged rednecks hurling objects, naked men wrestling, and an overwhelming preoccupation with the physiological specifics of gay sex. Still, it may be us, not cheap-beer-and-violence-loving Arkansans, who are ultimately being duped by what may very well be a decoy prank, perhaps there to keep us preoccupied while Cohen infiltrates the Fallujah frontlines to outfit insurgents with colorful components from American Apparel.

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[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 10:52am

When will this man get the Oscar he so richly deserves???

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 10:52am

When will this man get in my bed where he so deeply belongs?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 10:57am

My sentiments exactly!

[nmartin]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 11:32am

That's it. Stir up a bunch of rednecks who own firearms.

[Calvin]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 11:37am

I don't know that I'm going to be able to watch Bruno. Ninety minutes of seeing people let out their inner Fred Phelpses will be immensely depressing.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 3:40pm

If it had been two female wrestlers, everyone would have cheered and start taking photos with their cellphones.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 4:58pm

Well, of course. Everyone knows that all women are bisexual. And everyone thinks it's hot.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 5:07pm

Who wouldn't wanna see him makin' out with another guy?

Updated On: 7/9/08 at 05:07 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/9/08 at 5:34pm

I'm partial to a sexy blue X, myself!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/10/08 at 10:27am

Goddamn photobucket!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/10/08 at 3:22pm

LOL, Borstalboy!

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 7/10/08 at 6:37pm

Here, BorstalBoy.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/10/08 at 7:26pm

rubby dubby, papa's got a chubby!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/10/08 at 8:43pm

Isn't he too famous now for this movie to even happen? I'm surprised he's not going to Japan or Mexico and screwing with people there.