Bruno Strikes Again: Baron Cohen Tricks Former Mossad Agent  |
Mon Jul. 7, 2008 11:28 AM GMT  mojo-photo-bruno2.jpgSacha Baron
Cohen is stepping things up in preparation for Brüno, the actor
and comedian's followup to the $260 million-grossing Borat. As
we've covered here before, the Brüno character's gay antics were
hilarious on Da Ali G Show and apparently deeply disturbing to
Wichita airport patrons more recently. But his latest prank has
made headlines: former Mossad agent and political analyst Yossi
Alpher has revealed that he and a Palestinian were duped by
Brüno during an interview in Jerusalem two weeks ago. Highlights
include a question confusing Hamas with hummus, a comparison of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the, er, Jennifer-Angelina
conflict, and a good-hearted attempt to help unite "Jews and
Hindus." Those first two are kind of iffy, chuckle-wise, but
that last one totally kills me for some reason. Alpher wrote
about the experience in a column for The Forward, and he insists
that he knew s