After viewing the second, more high quality link, I definitely saw one of them was Bizarre, and I think Kuniva. They’re from his rap group D12.
After a second viewing, it looks staged to me. It’d be pretty hard to land with your legs wrapped around someone’s head perfectly like that, if they didn’t want you to.
You definitely have a point. Eminem tends to say whatever he think will be the most shocking or offensive, and gay jokes are always easy. The only line he won’t cross is saying “nigger.” (except in an infamous, very old track he got a lot of flak for)
Agreed.
It’s definitely the rest of D12. Why can Eminem bring all of his less famous or not famous at all friends to the Awards show? Because he’s Eminem and they wanted him there. He’s an “A list” MTV celebrity- the guy’s won an Oscar, after all.
And I just saw on E! Ryan Seacrest saying that Em agreed to take part in the joke- he knew that Cohen would land in his lap in some capacity, but he had NO IDEA that he’d be Bruno and bare assed, nuts all up in his face.
Depending on your few of him that is the beauty of the way his characters interact with celebrities most of the time. “Sure, it’s just an interview. no problem!” And, then something ridiculously off the wall and hilarious happens. Unless, you dislike him and it is ridiculous and stupid. Either way. I like it.
Yeah, the E! telling of it makes the most sense to me, particularly when you look at the way Sacha does his interviewing. It’s right in line with his usual MO.
I’m sure it went something like this: “Ok, Em, you’re a funny guy. Do you like Sasha Baron Cohen? Borat? Ali G? Yeah? We want to do this thing where he comes up to you in the show, you guys can kind of play off of one another, it’ll be funny. You ok with that?”
So, Em hears Sasha being announced, then suddenly has a nutsack in his face.
Disclaimer: Sampiro is as close to infallible, to me, as an poster here.
But.
Fuck you, Samp. These people opened their own mouths and inserted their own foots. Get the fuck over it.
That’s kind of like saying I’m the most fertile of The Golden Girls. And you’re wrong.
Who said that?
Man, I feel sorry for you. “Ass in the face” ranks right up there with farting and people getting hit in the nuts for intensity of laughter. I’m really sorry you can’t enjoy that. It’s enhanced my life a lot and provided me hours of joy.
That’s apparently a quote from head writer of the event, Scott Aukerman, taken from his blog, though there’s no link directly to said blog. I didn’t bother to try and find the original blog post.
lissener, this sort of personal attack is NOT permitted in Cafe Society, as you well know. Sometimes, you put one toe over the line. This is WAY over the line. This is an Official Warning.
No matter how wrong-headed you might think someone is (or they might think you are), it is possible to discuss without personal insults or attacks. If you do not find it possible, then you need to find other venues for discussions.
If anyone has questions about aroma therapy, Eminem’s probably the most qualified now on addressing its efficacy.
Amusing as the video was, just the still of Eminem reeling back inches from Cohen’s pooter is an instant classic. Reminded me of Captain Nemo in the Nautilus gettin’ eye’d by the giant squid.
Here’s his blog. The June 1st entry has been (for some reason) deleted.
You guys are hysterical!
Two attention seeking entertainers do something they think is entertaining and attention seeking, and you all spend hours dissecting it like 14th century philosophers arguing about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin!
Now that’s comedy!
I still don’t get it. Assuming that Eminem is the most humorless person in the world, why does that justify what Cohen did? Lacking a sense of humor is not an excuse for such “retaliation,” if that’s what it was. It was absolutely disgusting.
Not only that, but the frat boy would be facing prosecution. It is absolutely sexual assault.
You aren’t the only one.
I swear the following is true, and I just had to share.
I just saw one of those triple-split-screen talking-head segments on Fox News.
After a few moments on the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies, the Heads moved on to a much more serious topic: Sacha Baron Cohen’s ass in Eminem’s face.
They spent at least 5 minutes discussing with utter gravitas whether it was staged, whether Eminem was in on it, how much MTV knew, if they’ll be fined, and on and on.
When one of them said – with a completely straight face – “Is this worse than Janet Jackson’s breast?” is when I actually laughed out loud.
Assfacegate?
I didn’t find that clip amusing in the slightest. I thought Borat was funny in a way, but ok, it’s done now. Shock value diluted. See ya.
If Paris Hilton really did turn down the opportunity to be in a bit with Baron Cohen then I find myself in the odd position of possessing some smidgen of respect for her. I wouldn’t have expected her to pass up a chance to have her name in the news for no good reason, and it takes better sense than I’d have credited her with to realize that she was likely to come off looking even worse than she usually does.