Who is America? episode 7 finale as it happened: OJ Simpson sits down with Gio Monaldo
'Me and you we got something in common, we both – how you say – ladykillers'
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Your support makes all the difference.Who is America? reaches its final episode tonight, with Sacha Baron Cohen saying there will not be a second season.
Has he saved the best until last? The show has seen him fool Dick Cheney, Corey Lewandowski, Roy Moore, Joe Arpaio and more, with a Sarah Palin interview not even making the final cut.
In a trailer Baron Cohen tweeted ahead of episode 7’s broadcast we see all the fallout from the show, with some public figures stepping down from their positions and others vowing to take the comedian to court.
It ends with his Gio Monaldo saying: “Me and you we got something in common, we both – how you say – ladykillers,” before showing the person in question to be O.J. Simpson (who was famously found "not guilty" of murder in a trial verdict watched by millions), who is quick to declare: “What? No I didn’t kill nobody!”
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Who is America? has aired Sunday nights in the US on Showtime and followed Monday nights in the UK on Channel 4.
Glenn carries himself in the dress, pussy hat and tote bag so well!
A fake ending! Credits interrupted for one final Gio Monaldo hidden camera (?) segment.
I guess Baron Cohen was secretly hoping for a confession here, but at least somehow got OJ joking about killing women.
To what end though? I'm not sure that interview should have even made the cut, let alone ended the series.
It's telling that the best parts of the show didn't involve big name politicians at all. It often felt like SBC was shooting for the headline-grabbing moments, when it was the smaller ones with unknowns that were both the most funny and the most shocking. I still haven't shaken that mosque presentation.
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