Even though it ended without ever showing the infamous Sarah Palin interview, Who Is America? saved another big name for its final episode: O. J. Simpson. Cohen's character Gio Monaldo, the millionaire Italian fashion photographer, sat down with the famous former athlete, where he asked what happened that night with Simpson's wife.
"What wife?" Simspon asks.
"The one you shot," Cohen's Monaldo says.
"Well, first of all, she wasn't my wife," Simpson replies. "We had been divorced. And second of all, I didn't do it."
"We want you to be completely truthful with how you got away with it," Monaldo presses Simpson.
"Hey hey hey," Simpson says. "I didn't get away with nothing."
It's a painfully awkward interview during which Monaldo and Simpson laugh along to a bunch of dead wife and stabbing jokes.
"She's gorgeous, but sometimes I want to kill her," Gio says at one point referencing a woman playing his wife. "I want to send her on a private helicopter and throw her over the Grand Canyon—oopsie daisie!" He gives Simpson a high five, as Simpson says "stop," ultimately laughing along.
It's a deeply uncomfortable ending to a deeply uncomfortable show.
Matt Miller is a Brooklyn-based culture/lifestyle writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Esquire, Forbes, The Denver Post, and documentaries.
