Earlier this week, a lawsuit was filed against Universal Studios and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen by California resident Richelle Olson. Olson claims that while Baron was shooting for his new film Bruno at a charity bingo event in 2007, she was pushed by the hirsuit comedian, “fell and was surrounded by cameramen who attacked her. Later, she says she fainted, hit her head causing bleeding to her brain, and must now use a wheelchair.”

But I suspect her brain damage may have occurred before she ever came into contact with Austria’s favorite fictional gay son. Unfortunately for Olsen, because Cohen was obviously filming a movie, there is substantial footage of her full encounter with Cohen that “clearly shows that Ms. Olson was never touched or in any way assaulted by Sacha Baron Cohen or any member of the production and suffered no injury.”

Universal called the lawsuit “frivolous” and “baseless” and has said they expect to be fully vinidicated.

If the fallout from Borat is any indication, I’m guessing this is only the first of many frivolous lawsuits from humorless people who weren’t really hurt by Cohen, but are just pissed off because he made them look foolish and caught it all on tape.

It’s been officially confirmedby Scott Aukerman, the head writer for the MTV Movie Awards:  The Bruno and Eminem bit was totally staged.  He wrote on his blog, “Yes, the Bruno/Eminem incident was staged. That’s all anyone wants to talk about, so let’s get it out of the way.  They rehearsed it at dress and yes, it went as far as it did on the live show then.  Okay, you can stop reading this blog now!”

I’ve witnessed so much debate and commentary on this over the past couple days since the broadcast.  A lot of people thought Em’s tantrum was the real deal.  People, Eminem has been subjected to far morerepulsive and offensive things than Sacha Baron Cohen’s testicles without storming out of the room;  he did date Mariah Carey, after all.

Reports have recently surfaced that while filming for his latest picture, Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen was hospitalized after suffering a  serious allergic reaction during a botched body hair bleaching session.

A source revealed: “Sacha is committed to as much realism as he can muster in his films. He’d heard that all-over hairlessness is a popular trend in the gay community, so he thought he’d bleach all his hair so it looked invisible.

“But it quickly turned into a disaster. Shortly after having the procedure done he felt a burning sensation and it grew steadily worse.

“He had a bad allergic reaction to hydrogen peroxide, which is a strong bleaching agent. It was so severe around a certain part of his anatomy that he couldn’t sit down for three days.”

Doctors prescribed a soothing cream and antihistamines, but Sacha took days to fully recover, delaying filming for nearly a week.

I question the validity of this report, if for no other reason than than bleaching will not make ridiculous amounts of body hair disappear, it will only turn it yellow. There’s no way you could expect that bleaching Sacha Baron Cohen would make his body hair invisible while filming. Have you seen how much hair is on that body? It’s like a Wookie mated with a Brillo pad.

Perhaps waxing would have been a better option, but he just wasn’t willing to go that far. I don’t blame him. The thought of having the hair ripped out of my hoohah by the roots makes me vomit in my mouth a little bit. I’ll stick to razors, thanks.

When he was invited to do an interview about Austrian economics by Sacha’s character Bruno, former presidential candidate Ron Paul got more than he expected when he ended up in a “bedroom” with a pantsless Sacha Baron Cohen.

PAUL: We were in a studio situation. I wasn’t invited to a hotel room. A studio situation where they had a lot of lights burn and blaze and all kinds of commotion. They said — better get in this back room here. And all of a sudden, I was in this room, which they had it all fixed up as a bedroom. So, getting me there was sort of dishonesty. Getting me into the interview.

I was expecting an interview on Austrian economics. So, that didn’t turn out that way. But, by the time he started pulling his pants down, I, What is going on here? I ran out of the room. This interview has ended.

The footage will most likely be included in the new Bruno movie, due out later this year. When the movie is released, Paul plans to apologize to his supporters, even though that will probably just give the film free publicity… like we’re doing right now. I give him credit for not threatening legal action, though he knows the footage will probably make him look ridiculous, and could damage his credibility in the minds of some humorless constituents.

I can’t remember the last time I sat and laughed my ass off at a TRAILER. I can’t wait to see this movie. It looks pee-yourself funny.

Here’s the best part: They’re actually making you enter your age to view the trailer. That’s how offensive they think it is. (It’s really not all that offensive. The MPAA is just totally prudish.)

It looks like Sacha Baron Cohen’s lastest film, Bruno, may be undergoing some changes soon. The film’s initial screening by the MPAA culminated in an NC-17 rating for the edgy film. You can’t release a film with an NC-17 rating. No one will screen it and no one will watch it.

Here’s a look at what pissed off the censors:

Among the scenes reportedly causing the most issues: one in which flamboyant fashionista Brüno is seen engaging in what appears to be anal sex with another man, and one in which he sneaks, naked, into a tent, unbeknownst to its male occupant.

The film is slated for a summer release and, while already buzzworthy, has garnered significant praise from critics who were privy to a 22-minute preview at the South by Southwest festival earlier this month.

Three scenes were shown in their MPAA-offending entirety. One reveals the setup for the film: Brüno and his boyfriend decide to jump on board the latest Hollywood trend and adopt an African baby (which arrives via a cardboard box). Unfortunately, the beaus quickly break up, and Brüno loses custody of the child. He spends the rest of the movie attempting to get it back by proving himself to be one of the most heterosexual men in the country.

Along the way, he plans a photo shoot featuring his newest baby/accessory and auditions child actors to take part; shocking hilarity ensues when he gets the OK from stage mothers to administer liposuction to their apparently hefty toddlers, throw them from buildings in the name of art and dress them up like baby Hitlers.

The second previewed scene shows Brüno appearing on a Springeresque talk show to show off his newest acquisition. Unfortunately, it’s done with the aid of (Photoshopped) images of him and his boyfriend in the throes of passion with the baby looking on.

The final scene, by most accounts one of the movie’s most shocking, features the newly butch Bruno, going by the name Straight Dave, in an ultimate fighting ring, challenging his ex-boyfriend. After they beat each other into a bloody state, they passionately reconcile—in front of the clearly scandalized audience.

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but none of this sounds like anything worse than what’s happened in R-rated movies. Something tells me the MPAA was particularly offended by the anal sex — they may actually even have specific rules about anal vs. missionary sex. I mean, did anyone actually see Zack & Miri Make a Porno? There was a lot of fucking in that film, but it was all man-on-woman. It kind of annoys me that man-on-man anal warrants a stronger rating. It’s still sex, peeps.