Sacha Baron Cohen won the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy and he stole the she at the BAFTA LA’s annual Britannia Awards. Half the audience was roaring in laughter the other half was shaking their heads wondering if he had really just hurt an elderly woman in a wheelchair or if it was one of his gags. The audience thought that it was so real that the host Rob Brydon had to calm down the audience.

I thought something was up when they did a close up of the so called 80-something year old woman who supposedly did a movie with famed actor Charlie Chaplin. Her voice seemed a bit fake but wasn’t sure what was up.

According to Deadline.com the BAFTA execs were up to the wee hours of the morning trying to clear the stunt of legalities that also involved presenter Salma Hayek. The woman was believed to be Grace Collington an actress that appears with Charlie Chaplin in 1931’s City Lights at the age of five and is now 87. She is the olden living actor to have worked with him. When Sacha came up to accept the award she gave him Chaplin’s cane, he then accidentally pushed her wheelchair and she fell of the stage and fell down and landed on her face, motionless and dead.

“Grace Collington is the oldest, sorry, was the oldest… I dedicate my award to her. It’s obviously a tragedy, but on the bright side what a great way to go. She’ll probably make the Oscars In Memoriam section… Anyway tonight is not about her, it’s about me,” Sacha said as the limp body was carried out of the ballroom to rollicking laughter of the sort you rarely hear at these events.

You have to see this video!