Eminem Gets Face Full of Bruno at MTV Movie Awards

So everyone in the Twitterverse is talking about Sacha Baron Cohen’s tea-bagging/69ing/facesitting on Eminem at tonight’s MTV Movie Awards, trying to figure out if it was real, if Eminem knew about it, or how much of it was staged.

In the clips that will inevitably get taken down from YouTube over and over, you can clearly hear Eminem saying, “Are you serious right now? Are you f*cking serious right now? Get this motherf*cker off me.”

Personally, I found this to be incredibly disrespectful, whether that be on the part of the show’s producers or Sacha Baron Cohen, towards Eminem, who has made very few public appearances since the death of his best friend Proof and his stint in rehab. I understand the argument that Eminem is a prankster and that he deserves to be pranked every now and again by entertainment’s latest prankster, but I feel like this wasn’t the right time to do something like this with Eminem. I know that Eminem doesn’t pull any punches in his lyrics, but if he wasn’t in on this very public, very viral prank, it feels like it might have gone a little too far to put a bare ass in his face on national television.

True, it’s not much different than Eminem mocking a singer or celebrity on an album, but something about this just didn’t feel right. I can’t really explain why, but Eminem isn’t Asher Roth these days and I’d hope that as one of the few remaining artists that can truly move the needle on album sales, he’d get a little bit more respect. That being said, perhaps this was a case of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and a proverbial passing of the torch to the next generation of prankster if Slim Shady is bowing out from that title.

This video will inevitably be taken down, but check it out while it lasts:



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  • #1
    Posted by Racing Tipster on November 13th, 2009 at 3:41 am

    Even i was also present there and it was a horrible moment to watch.

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