Sacha Baron Cohen upsets the rapper with flying angel skit

Jun 1, 2009 10:44 GMT  ·  By

The most awkward and, some say, out of line moment of this year’s MTV Movie Awards ceremony was when Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s most recent alter-ego, landed on Eminem’s lap as he was about to introduce the winner for Best Male Performance. In doing so, Cohen also managed to make for the Most Outrageous Presenter ever in the history of the awards ceremony, should such a title exist, as MTV informs.

Sacha Baron Cohen is currently promoting his upcoming mockumentary, “Bruno,” detailing the adventures of an Austrian fashionista with the same name. Naturally, since producers invited him to present Zac Efron with the award for Best Male Performance, they expected nothing less than a hilarious entrance – but the British comedian might have crossed all boundaries in his attempt to be just that, it is being said in the US media.

Bruno flew in as some sort of winged angel – if angels wear gladiator sandals and jockstraps. As he was about to approach the stage, something seemed to go wrong with his cables, and he started to flap his wings madly, sending white feathers flying all over the audience. Apparently distraught, Bruno asked to be put safely on the ground when, again, something goes wrong and he lands precisely on Eminem’s lap in an inverted position, meaning, with his legs around the rapper’s neck.

“Eminem, nice to meet you.” Bruno told the enraged rapper, who was positively fuming at the Audacity of the skit. However, word in the industry has it that Cohen chose Eminem specifically for the skit because of past accusations of homophobia brought against him at the onset of his music career. Whether Eminem was in on the joke is not yet known (and will probably never be made public), but, judging from his angry reaction, chances are that, if he was, he did not know the specific details of the skit.

“Eminem, who had just returned to his seat after performing a medley of two tracks from his new album, ‘Relapse,’ was not pleased. ‘Are you serious?’ he said, uttering an expletive and demanding that his bodyguards get Bruno off of him. A minor melee ensued as Bruno continued to dangle above Em and Em’s protectors tried in vain to remove a winged Bruno from their row of seats. ‘Hey, don’t touch me guys!’ cried the Austrian. ‘I’ve already got a boyfriend. Hey guys, let’s continue this in my hotel room!’ As Em left his seat, Bruno asked, ‘Is the real Slim Shady about to stand up?’ Stand up he did.” MTV writes of the rapper’s (completely justified) reaction.

A video of the entire winged angel Bruno upsetting Eminem is available on the MTV official website.