Paula Abdul: Punked by Sacha Baron Cohen aka Bruno

By On 04/30/2009 · 13 Comments · In Uncategorized

In Paula Abdul’s weekly Idol rundown with John Jay and Rich from KISS Phoenix, she reveals that mentor Jamie Foxx went beyond the call of duty, spending the entire day mentoring the Idols, even taking them out to lunch.

They responded to Jamie really well as a result.

A most lolzworthy moment, though, is Idol-free and happens at the 12:22 mark, as Paula describes how she was punked by Sacha Baron Cohen for his movie “Bruno”.

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Vulture has a transcript:

I’m like, okay, this is weird. Is this a variety show or something like that? So I walk in and there was no furniture except for a chair. And I’m waiting and waiting. And this guy Brà ¼no introduces himself and I said, “Hi.” And he said, “Here have some food.” And the food looked horrible. And I said “No, I’m fine.” And he said, “It’s very, very, very good.” I said, “That’s okay, I don’t want to have it.”

And he says, “Sorry there’s no furniture.” And he snaps his fingers and says “Gardeners!” And these two Mexican guys come in, and they drop down to all fours. I see him paying them like ten bucks. They drop down to all fours and he says [to me], “Sit down.” And I said, “I’m not doing that.” And he says don’t be like …

And I’m in a dress, so I’m tipping and holding my core muscles to not sit on them. And he pushes me down on them, and I’m like, “I’m sorry. And these two gardeners … Mexican gardeners don’t speak a word of English, and I’m like patting them and I’m like, “I’m so sorry.” And he kicked one of them, and we all fall.

 
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  • lefty

    This actually makes me feel sorry for Paula. I know everyone thinks Sasha Baron Cohen is hilarious, but his brand of humor makes me soooooo uncomfortable. I hate watching people being made fools of. Paula is such an easy target that it just doesn’t seem right. (Or maybe I’m just feeling protective of our Pauler…)

  • Victoria

    Me too, Lefty.

    Can’t wait to see the headlines when this movie comes out. “Clueless Abdul falls for movie prank” “Has Paula finally lost it?” “Paula Abdul harasses gardeners!”

    Well, maybe not that last one.

  • terps

    Well atleast Paula wasn’t the only one, so that makes her less of an ass

  • http://dcmjlive.wordpress.com dcmjlive

    But that just didn’t seem right. I laughed though at the fact that Paula did the Chair Yoga position and described it as using the core muscles…hahahaha. But I feel for her.

  • Niall

    I give her credit for trying to have a sense of humor about it. I kind of think SBC takes his pranks (performance art??) too far at times but there’s no point in getting upset about it. If she can continue to laugh about it, people will laugh with her not at her.

  • Calliope

    I am surprised a Bruno movie worked as I thought people would be onto Sasha Baron Cohen after Borat. And wasn’t Bruno one of his characters on his HBO show? It seems to have worked though. I am glad Paula has a sense of humor about it.

    (By the way, I like how she kind of left it open to whom she was voting for. I am going with Adam.)

  • majordude

    Sasha has balls, I’ll give him that. And Paula is a good sport. Bravo to both!

  • sfbb

    Paula is an easy target…so no points to Sasha Cohen for that silly prank. I hope she fired her publicist.

  • LostInSanity

    I’m originally from NY so maybe that has something to do it with it, but I really cringe when a women does something she doesn’t want to do because of pressure from a man. You don’t have to be a bitch about it but I think one could pretty firmly say “no, I’m not sitting on the gardener and if you keep on insisting, I’m out of here.” Choosing a people pleaser like Paula is not exactly a great challenge. SBC needs a little training. A knee to the nuts might work.

  • Thea

    If you go on imdb or anywhere and see a few pics of SBC in that movie you understand why Paula did not recognize him… NO WAY, even his mother would have trouble recognizing him!

    Good for Paula she can laugh about it, although it’s not like she has a choice now, right? She needs to play along.

  • piperlily

    I did a quick lookup of “Bruno” and it looks like Ron Paul was another victim of being punked. So I hope Paula realizes she’s not the only one, and it won’t destroy her — as long as she doesn’t let it. I don’t find it all that funny — I think it’s more guy’s humor, IMO.
    If I were in her shoes, I’d probably just start laughing at these guys and get up and leave without letting them finish. Sounds like she was trying to be polite just in case it was for real.

  • http://myspace.com/susanatfox sumidol

    Oh how funny

  • lavender1960

    Indeed Thea, Sacha baby really changed his look though for the role of Bruno who is after all a gay male model, he is almost sexy. Like Adam’s older taller blonde brother.