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Walsh called the ensuing production the “strangest interview of [his] life,” and said that Baron Cohen (in heavy makeup) asked him about children being used to stop terrorism and even had him read off a teleprompter at one point. But, hey, he still got an award out of it that undoubtedly says something offensive in Hebrew.

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Another attendee at this fake pro-Israel event appears to have been former Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore, who released a vitriolic statement directed at Showtime and Sacha Baron Cohen, warning them against airing a “defamatory attack” on his character.

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“Alabama does not respect cowards who exhibit such traits! It’s been a long time since I fought for my country in Vietnam. I’m ready to defend her again!” Moore writes. We’re not sure how Baron Cohen could have besmirched Moore’s character beyond the level of accused sex offender, but we’re sure he found a way.

Speaking of awful people, it sounds like recently pardoned Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio was invited to get in on the fun as well. He told Breitbart recently that Baron Cohen approached him for a interview disguised as a “Finnish comedian” who employed phrases like “blowjob” and “golden shower.” “I was a little suspicious, and I think I made a mistake… I was really concerned that I walked into this trap,” Arpaio said in a radio interview. Despite his keen instinct that there might be something fishy about a Northern European comedian interviewing him in a “warehouse-like facility,” Arpaio reportedly signed a release form and will be appearing in the show.

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One outlier in this collection of dingbats is decorated journalist Ted Koppel, who appears to be the only person to come forward and admit they got duped but didn’t actually sign a release form. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Koppel said a film crew came to his Maryland home along with Baron Cohen disguised as a man in a wheelchair “with an oxygen tank hanging off one of the handles.” Their conversation centered around the crowd size at Trump’s inauguration and an incomprehensible conspiracy theory involving a lunar eclipse, but once Koppel realized something wasn’t right he called the whole thing off.

You can read the full, detailed list of fooled participants here. Or, you can wait until Who Is America? premieres this weekend and see which public figures weren’t smart enough to figure out that that weird interview they had six months ago wasn’t what they thought it was.

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