If you missed it Roy Moore was on an episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series called "Who is America". He was humiliated for being a pedophile and is now suing.
The skit with Roy Moore being humiliated starts @ 3:06 below
Roy Moore loses first round of lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen for waving ‘pedophile detector’
Moore is suing Cohen for defamation over a prank interview in which the comedian waved a wand over Moore that Cohen said could detect sex offenders. Moore lost in court Monday over where the case should be heard.
Failed US Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was accused of sexual misconduct by several women when they were teenagers, has been teasing another run in 2020. But for now, he's spending his time duking it out with comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in court over a prank interview.
Moore went before a judge Monday in his defamation suit against Cohen. In a segment that aired in July 2018 on Cohen's Showtime series Who Is America?, Cohen interviewed Moore while pretending to be an Israeli anti-terrorism expert. During the segment, Cohen produced a device that he said the Israelis had developed to identify sex offenders. As he waved the device over Moore — it looked like the metal detector wands used at security checkpoints — it beeped.
The bit was a nod to the multiple women who came forward during Moore's unsuccessful Senate bid in 2017 to accuse him of pursuing relationships, sometimes involving allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, when they were teenagers. Once Moore realized what Cohen was doing, he ended the interview and walked out. He sued Cohen for defamation in September.
Moore and Cohen are far from resolving Moore's defamation claim. Instead, they've been sparring in recent months over what court should hear the case. Moore filed suit in federal district court in Washington, DC, arguing it was the appropriate location because that's where Cohen taped the interview. Cohen, Showtime, and CBS Corp. argued the case should be moved to federal court in Manhattan, per the terms of an agreement Moore signed before filming.
Moore lost. US District Judge Thomas Hogan ruled Monday in favor of Cohen and Showtime Monday, which means the case will be transferred to the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Moore's lawyer Larry Klayman told BuzzFeed News in an email that they plan to challenge Hogan's decision before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, but "also are prepared to litigate and feel confident of success in the Southern District of New York."