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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The new British television show Sacha Baron Cohen is in the headlines of the US media even before its first episode airs, conservatives Sarah Palin and Joe Walsh saying "Who is America ? ", which is scheduled to air on Sunday on the Showtime cable channel, has been shrouded in secrecy, with the exception of a trailer showing former US Defense Secretary Dick Cheney in the process of sign a big bottle. pencil case. [nL1N1U5163]
The seven-episode series marks Baron Cohen's first television project in a decade after he launched his comedy career as a subversive white English rapper Ali G., whose interviews included Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich. His fake 2006 documentary film "Borat" ridiculed Kazakhstan and the average Americans.
Palin, the US candidate in 2008, was deceived in an interview, apparently on American veterans, by a person disguised as an American soldier.
<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Former US Republican MP Joe Walsh, Now A conservative conversation radio host said he was confident of doing an interview on Israel. Walsh also called for a boycott of Showtime, a CBS unit
SHOWTIME did not comment Wednesday on the accounts of Palin and Walsh and declined to give details of the series, or who will appear. 19659007] "I join a long list of American public figures who have been victims of the evil" humor ", exploiting and sick of the British" comedian "Sacha Baron Cohen," wrote Palin in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
Palin tells a man that she believed to be Cohen "disguised heavily as a disabled American veteran, fake wheelchair and all … I sat through a long" interview "full of disrespect and Hollywood sarcasm – but finally got enough and literally, physically removed my "
Walsh tweeted on Wednesday that he believed Palin's story because" I too was fooled […] c & 39; was about the same as she lived. "
Walsh, who has strong pro-Israel views, said that he was invited to a dinner party for advocates of the day. Israel and asked to film a
"I was taken to the studio, the production was messy, I sat down and started talking about pro-Israel stuff, Israeli defense, then field left, the interviewer begins to talk about how children "Walsh tweeted."
He said that he "has stopped and questioned their direction" and that the producers "have rushed me out of the studio while an apparent fight broke out. . "
Walsh included the hashtag #boycottShowtime on his series of tweets, while Palin asked Baron Cohen and Showtime to donate the proceeds of the show" to a charity group that respects and supports the American veterans ".
(Report by Jill Serjeant, edited by Bill Tarrant and Rosalba O & # 39; Brien)
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