It doesn’t matter how annoying this man can get for an average human being, there are still people who find Sacha Baron Cohen as entertaining and artistic. So here’s a bad news for the latter group that the Bruno star has just been banned from presenting an award at the Oscars on Sunday, because the organizers felt that James Cameron belonged to the former group (people who are not moved by Bruno’s antics) and he might get offended by the spoof on Avatar that Bruno had planned for the night.
According to Contactmusic,
Sacha Baron Cohen has been banned from presenting an award at the Oscars in case he offends James Cameron. The ‘Bruno’ star – who was due to hand out an Academy Award at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre on Sunday (07.03.10) – had planned to tease the director by dressing as blue alien Na’vi, a character from his film ‘Avatar’, and pretending to be pregnant with the filmmaker’s child. The 38-year-old comic actor has now been dropped from his presenting slot – which would have been his first Oscars appearance – even though James had given the comedy sketch his approval.
Interesting, isn’t it? James had already given a go-ahead for the comedy sketch! So the only thing I can guess at this moment is that the majority of folks from the Academy Awards tent are not comfortable with Bruno’s weird sense of humor. Anyway, hard luck this time Bruno. Maybe you need to wait for some more time. And one fine day when we are convinced that the world has forgotten how to distinguish between humor and cheap acts, you may take the charge and start ruining such high profile events. Till then, goodbye!
