Sacha Baron Cohen's gay fashionista crashes rally against same-sex marriage

Last Updated: Monday, November 3, 2008 | 12:17 PM ET

British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has returned to gate-crashing in the U.S., this time bringing his flamboyant gay fashion reporter character Bruno to a California rally calling for a ban on same-sex marriage.

Cohen, disguised as Bruno, joined marching demonstrators outside Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday and mingled with the crowd. The march was in support of Proposition 8, which seeks to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling that allows gay and lesbians to wed.

Photographers and reporters covering the rally eventually recognized Cohen, the star of the blockbuster faux documentary film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Though they tried to approach the star, members of his film crew attempted to shield him. He was later ushered away in a van.

Cohen has been filming a new mockumentary film starring Bruno, who along with Borat was first introduced in his cable comedy program Da Ali G Show.



Actor Sacha Baron Cohen holds up a sign during a Yes on Proposition 8 rally Sunday in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

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By Tony Grew • November 3, 2008 - 13:10


British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has taken part in a rally opposing gay marriage, in the guise of his character Bruno, an camp Austrian fashionista.

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He arrived at the rally in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon sporting a blond wig and marched, but was uncovered by other protestors and escorted away.

The stunt was filmed for his upcoming movie, Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt.

In June he orchestrated a homoerotic spectacle that went "right up to the line" of the US state of Arkansas’s morality laws.

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:rofl:

:grr: :grr: :hi:

As for me, I'm an it-getter.

I get it.

but i still cant stand him, and his borat movie was disgusting and gross
i am all for humour, but that was extremely over the top

it was sick and disgusting, the whole movie

he is almost like Jerry Steinfeld, not funny at all

:hi:

tho i can see why some might not like it, particularly if Kazakh. A long string of what would have been polack jokes back in the day. much of his humor is plainly in bad taste.

i have bad taste, tho. i think he's hilarious as ali g, borat and his other personae.

The Bruno character was great and there was on bit on the show that had Bruno and Leon Hall that was side splitting. I bet you know which one i mean.