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Sarah Palin’s 2017 defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, which was dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge soon after it was filed, has been revived by the Second Circuit appeals court, meaning the 2-year-old case will likely go to trial. The former GOP Vice President candidate sued the New York Times Co…

After honing the difficult craft of creating laughs with characters embedded in situations where only he is in a comedy in Da Ali G Show, Borat and Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen turned his skill toward exposing highbrow politicians and hard line conservatives with a coterie of new characters in Who Is America? For his…

Sacha Baron Cohen has been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy for the coterie of characters he played in the satirical interview series Who Is America? While some will read into this that his inclusion in the series and not limited series category means that…

Sacha Baron Cohen ended his grand experiment seven-episode Showtime series Who Is America tonight with a disturbing segment in which Baron Cohen’s Italian photographer alter ego Gio Monaldo sat with O.J. Simpson and tried unsuccessfully for three minutes to get the former football great to admit he murdered his…

After former Alaskan Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Sacha Baron Cohen of duping her that he was a handicapped U.S. military veteran during an interview, Showtime president of programming Gary Levine hinted today at TCA that the segment may not even air on the British comedian’s series Who…

Showtime, playing defense, issued a statement on the “widespread misinformation” the network said is being disseminated about the various characters Sacha Baron Cohen used to punk high profile people. “There has been widespread misinformation over the past week about the character of Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., Ph.D.…

Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t done with former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr, Ph.D, his character from the new Showtime series Who Is America? has just posted a rebuttal to Palin. Does he get in a few gratuitous extra shots? You betcha. The seven-episode series debuts Sun…

As everyone waits with bated breath for Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical comedy series Who Is America? there is one person who isn’t excited: Sarah Palin. The former Republican vice-presidential candidate took to Facebook to give Cohen a piece of her mind about the Showtime series which, true to Cohen form, is clearly…

Tina Fey, who confessed to joining Saturday Night Live as a writer 20 years ago (in case you were feeling young), returned to host the finale to the show’s 43rd season. (Watch select clips below.) The night didn’t prove to be a comedic peak for the show, which has had its ups and downs this year. Even so, Fey gave her…

Just more than two months after Sarah Palin went after the New York Times for incorrectly linking her to the 2011 shooting in Arizona involving Rep. Gabby Giffords, the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate and sometimes reality TV host today saw her defamation lawsuit come to a sudden end. “Negligence this may…

Attorneys for Sarah Palin and the New York Times put the newspaper’s editorial sausage-making process under examination today, as a Manhattan federal district court judge heard testimony about how, exactly, one particularly gristly bite came into being. Insisting he did not intend to imply a “causal link” between the…

Using words including “betrayal,” “humiliating” and “covfefe” and suggesting that management had compared them to “dogs urinating on fire hydrants,” copy editors at the New York Times today let executive editor Dean Baquet and his heir apparent, Joseph Kahn, know exactly how they feel about taking the brunt of layoffs…