Watch Borat Roast U2 & Kanye West At Kennedy Centre Event

While the ceremony that honoured U2 - the 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors - happened earlier this month, US television broadcaster CBS only broadcast the event this week. The other honorees included George Clooney, singer-songwriter Amy Grant, renowned artist Gladys Knight, and Cuban-American composer Tania León.

Stealing the show, however, was Sacha Baron Cohen, back in character as Borat, who stole the show by roasting U2, Kanye West, and Donald Trump. Making a joke insinuating that Ye wanted to move to Kazakhstan, he said, "Your Kayne. He tried to move to Kazakhstan and even tried to change his name to Kazakhstan-ye West. But we said no. He's too anti-semitic even for us."

Kanye West was recently locked out of Facebook and Instagram and suspended from Twitter after spouting anti-semitic rhetoric. As reported by The Los Angeles Times, Ye's anti-semitic comments have had real-life consequences and recently drew a well-known hate group to a Los Angeles freeway; the group "gave Nazi salutes as they stood behind a large banner that read, 'Kanye is right about the Jews.'"  

Recalling the U2 Songs Of Innocence debacle, Cohen noted, "It translates to mean 'Please remove your wretched album from my new iPhone 6'" (Borat reading a letter from his parents to the band), saying that MeToo actually linked to U2.

Even ex-President Donald Trump wasn't safe from the roasting: "I must say I'm very upset about the antisemitism in the US today," Cohen began. "It's not fair. Kazakhstan is the number one Jew-crushing nation. Stop stealing our hobby. Stop the steal. Stop the steal."

Earlier this year, Bono took "full responsibility" for putting Songs Of Innocence on your iPhone. In an excerpt from his new book, Surrender shared with The Guardian, the Sunday Bloody Sunday singer wrote, "On 9 September 2014, we didn't just put our bottle of milk at the door but in every fridge in every house in town. In some cases we poured it on to the good people's cornflakes. And some people like to pour their own milk. And others are lactose intolerant... I take full responsibility.

"At first I thought this was just an internet squall... The part of me that will always be punk rock thought this was exactly what the Clash would do. Subversive. But subversive is hard to claim when you're working with a company that's about to be the biggest on Earth."

Read the rest of the excerpts here.