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Showtime's controversial comedy 'Who Is America?' will not return for a second season, according to star, creator and executive producer Sacha Baron Cohen.

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00:03"...I've been married for 33. I've never had an accusation of such things."

00:09"...I am not accusing you at all. This is not..."

00:11"...Well then, if this is an instrument, certainly I'm not a pedophile, okay?"

00:15Sacha Baron Cohen's controversial comedic series Who Is America will not return for a

00:19second season on Showtime. Baron Cohen, who stars in the show, which he also created and

00:24executive produced, spoke to THR's Scott Feinberg on the Awards Chatter podcast where he confirmed

00:29a discontinuation of the series, saying,

00:31"...I will never be able to get a politician to bare his buttocks while screaming,

00:34God bless America, and screaming the N-word."

00:37Baron Cohen, who made a rare appearance out of character, also noted that he doesn't

00:41really have other characters ready to go if he would have changed his mind.

00:44"...It's like the LEG show in England. I did one season, and the idea is not to make it a

00:49Seinfeld or an SNL," he said. "...It is grueling. I'm too lazy to do this."

00:53The seven-episode series, which was filmed in secret, featured Baron Cohen assuming multiple

00:57identities to get people ranging from politicians to celebrities to everyday individuals to admit

01:02to absurd things on camera. The show attracted both praise and lawsuits.

01:07"...So do you think President Trump, he's your friend? Do you think he might have had a golden shower?"

01:12"...Would surprise me."

01:14"...Oh!"

01:15Who Is America wrapped its run on August 26 with an average of 3.4 million weekly viewers.

01:19The series helped drive record sign-ups to Showtime's streaming service and ranked as one of the

01:23summer's ratings winners. Baron Cohen could himself be a winner at the 2019 Golden Globes,

01:28where he is nominated for Best Actor in a TV Musical or Comedy for the rule-breaking series.

01:33Feinberg's interview with Baron Cohen, in which he opens up about his pre-fame life and the roots

01:37of his comedy style and characters, can now be heard in full on THR's Awards Chatter podcast,

01:42which is available on iTunes. To read more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:46For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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