Sacha Baron Cohen, currently armed with a new movie so gloriously filthy that Jimmy Kimmelcouldn't even show a clip of it on TV, hit the red carpet in London on Monday ingeniously disguised as the affable gentlemen Nobby Grimsby. Though Cohen Nobby delivered a smorgasbord of quotables whilst dressed in his finest underwear and turtleneck, the Brothers Grimsby star's #OscarsSoWhite-themed joke (at around 1:34 in the video below) is garnering the most attention:
"I just wanna say we do not desire an Oscar at all," Cohen told AP reporters on the red carpet while embracing Brothers Grimsby co-star Gabourey Sidibe. "That is why we have cast an African American actress." According to the Hollywood Reporter, Cohen also delivered a slight variation on that joke while later speaking to the crowd in Leicester Square. "There’s no chance Grimsby will get any Oscars this year," Cohen and/or Nobby told the audience. "That is why we decided to cast two black actors."
The Brothers Grimsby, which presumably features plenty more truth-highlighting jokes of this nature, stars Cohen alongside Isla Fisher and Mark Strong and is set to make its debut here in the States on Mar. 11. Not settled on seeing it? Peep Jimmy Kimmel's audience reacting to a particularly NSFW clip just weeks ago, meaning they are likely still very much in recovery: