British funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen has sparked outrage in Kansas - by stripping down to a pair of hotpants and terrorising locals.

The actor is currently filming his latest movie Bruno - a mockumentary about a homosexual Austrian TV presenter - and gathering footage of his interaction with locals.

But the oddball character’s outrageous dress sense has not gone down too well with respectable Kansans and local newspapers have reported that a "European man" was "putting security on red alert" by "stripping down to tight shorts and dancing in the lobby of Wichita Airport."

And the high jinx hasn’t ended there - Cohen and his crew are reported to have disrupted an Easter play at a Kansas church by turning up in "chains."

A spokesperson for the actor declined to comment on reports.