Sacha Baron Cohen's Admiral General Aladeen Spills Kim Jong-Il's Ashes On Ryan Seacrest [UPDATE]

First Posted: 02/26/2012 7:23 pm Updated: 02/27/2012 1:20 am

After days of back and forth about whether or not Sacha Baron Cohen would be allowed to show up on the Oscars red carpet dressed as his character from "The Dictator," the comic appeared at the 84th annual Academy Awards in full dictatorial regalia -- and proceeded to prank E! red carpet host Ryan Seacrest.

Cohen -- who plays Admiral General Aladeen, a deposed North African dictator who comes to America, in the upcoming comedy -- walked the red carpet with two statuesque models before stopping to talk with Seacrest.

"I'm wearing John Galliano, but the socks are from K-Mart," Cohen quipped; he said he was holding an urn of "Kim Jong-Il's ashes." He then spilled the urn on a shocked Seacrest, before being whisked away by security.

As Seacrest told Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith after the Cohen interview, the urn was likely filled with powdered pancake mix.

Watch footage of Cohen's prank above.

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After days of back and forth about whether or not Sacha Baron Cohen would be allowed to show up on the Oscars red carpet dressed as his character from "The Dictator," the comic appeared at the 84th an...
After days of back and forth about whether or not Sacha Baron Cohen would be allowed to show up on the Oscars red carpet dressed as his character from "The Dictator," the comic appeared at the 84th an...
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Terravirgo
stay vertical and do something naughty
12:39 AM on 03/01/2012
He's awesome and everything but it just wasn't funny you know? Sure play the character, but don't spill stuff on people.
01:30 AM on 02/29/2012
This attention-seeking nonsense he keeps pulling is insane. I'm purposefully not seeing this movie now. I never thought he was funny, never will.
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Cori Hingst
01:22 AM on 02/29/2012
Pretty stupid. You don't throw things on someone and mess up their clothes. I really don't think it was that funny.
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tabiyeh
Macro-Bio?
12:26 PM on 02/28/2012
To all the people taking this as a personal attack on their own lives-get over it. It was a joke, he didn't kill anybody.
08:42 AM on 02/28/2012
Sacha you are after mine own heart. You live in the spirit of Veipor. See here: http://youtu.be/Gd0mAVHyqbo
10:36 PM on 02/27/2012
I never liked Borat. I thought he was great in Sweey Todd and Hugo...but this little "stunt" he pulled at the Oscars was ridiculous. There is a difference between being funny and just being a jerk. First off, the Oscars is the biggest night in Hollywood. It is the classic, black tie, pretty dress event that honors the best films and actors of the year....they politely said they would be fine with him coming supporting the film Hugo in a suit, but to not "promote" his new film The Dictator. He showed up as the Dictator...not surprising....spilling Kim John II's ashes on Ryan Seacrest...HORRIBLE! I usually don't care for Ryan but I seriously felt awful for him. Ruined his outfit, ruined the spirit....very unprofessional Sasha.
MARTIN SCORSESE SHOULD HAVE WON BEST DIRECTOR!
10:13 PM on 02/27/2012
The guy is just not funny. Total waste of time at a nice event. What was the point of wasting air time on him, anyway?
04:11 PM on 02/28/2012
The same point as there is wasting time commenting about it, i suppose.
09:29 PM on 02/27/2012
heh! celebrities, a bunch of out of touch asswipes, totally disconnected from the real world each with a cause, a gripe, a mission or an issue. Waaahhhhh!
09:28 PM on 02/27/2012
As much as I really can't stand Seacrest, I can't stand Sacha Baron Cohen even more.. even I thought it was in bad taste. He should have been escorted off the property after that prank. What a jerk.
09:17 PM on 02/27/2012
Why do people give this guy the time of day? Then the ladies on the red carpet went on and on about how funny it was. Geez.
04:11 PM on 02/28/2012
The same reason you're taking the time to comment about him.
10:55 PM on 02/28/2012
Oh, Gosh. Sorry to take your time and had you read my comment. But then again that is what this Forum is for. Geez kid.
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tc71087
09:04 PM on 02/27/2012
Just think if it was something else Ryan would have enjoyed it.
08:07 PM on 02/27/2012
Cohen visits the chewstroke homepage daily, always leaving great comments....we love him!
07:35 PM on 02/27/2012
I thought his very lame 15 minutes were up a few years ago. So this bit was supposed to be funny?? I guess I am slow please explain the humor to me.
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GOCmember
Obama for the win
09:11 PM on 02/27/2012
Agreed. Perhaps people despise Seacrest so much, they find this humorous. I found it to be in poor taste--it just wasn't the event for sophomoric antics.
06:04 PM on 02/27/2012
WHAT A DAMN SOCIAL LEPER & RACIST !
05:50 PM on 02/27/2012
sbc used to be funny, this is just poor taste. ali g, funny. borat, funny. bruno, not funny. aladeen, just dumb.