Oh my god! Did you see it? Sacha Baron Cohen totally landed his bare ass on Eminem during the MTV Movie Awards last night! It was totally real, too. Because you could clearly see Eminem’s bodyguards hesitate while their boss got a man-ass shot.
Yeah, that stunt was staged. You don’t have someone fall from the ceiling with an exposed behind at an awards show and not have several dozen people know about it ahead of time. It’s called the Howard Stern theory of comic nudity. Stunts take a lot of time to plan out, and you need to get everyone to sign off on the safety side of things, too. You don’t want famous people getting hurt, now do you?
Let’s also keep in mind that nothing, repeat, nothing spontaneous happens on an MTV awards show anymore. They pretty much did away with that after the dude from Rage Against the Machine climbed up on the set of the MTV Music Awards when the Wayans brothers hosted. It truly was the only thing notable about that installment. Let’s get past the fact that naked butts on award shows have been done several times, let’s ignore the fact that we’ve seen Cohen put his crotch in a man’s face before. The real issue here is that celebrity crotches are out of control. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Tainted celebrity love