Sacha Baron Cohen’s fabulously gay, fashion-obsessed alter-ego, Bruno, is the persona Cohen will be assuming next as he continues to humiliate unsuspecting subjects next May in his upcoming mockumentary, “Brüno.” Filming is in progress and the most recent victim of Cohen’s antics is former Mossad secret agent, Yossi Alpher. Alpher was contacted by Cohen’s producers who hoodwinked the counter intelligence spy by explaining they wanted to interview him and Palestinian for a documentary that would explain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the youth of the world. They justified Bruno’s fey presence by telling Alpher that he was a German rock star and would be the perfect person to establish a strong communication with their audience (Bruno is supposed to be a Austrian fashion reporter).
As the interview progressed Alpher used his highly specialized profiling to realize that something was amiss, but it wasn’t the ridiculously fake Austrian accent or the ostentatiously dressed interviewer that set him off, it took Alpher until this quote concerning the anti-Israeli group Hamas to clue in: “Vait, vait. Vat’s zee connection between a political movement and food? Vy hummus?”
As if that wasn’t enough, Bruno later addressed the two men by saying, “Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina is worse.” Alpher insisted he eventually knew what was going on, played the rest of the interview straight (suuuuuure) and handled the situation with tact but nonetheless suffered through the indignity that he, an international spy for 12 years was punk’d and depantsed by the great trickster, Baron Cohen.
Update: Was this incident involving a “cage-fighting” ruse that turned out to be men ripping each others’ clothes off and making-out another Bruno stunt? People seem to think so. It sounds awesome and subversively hilarious either way.