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A contestant on Sunday’s episode of “The $100,000 Pyramid” flubbed his way to internet infamy when he confused Osama bin Laden with former President Barack Obama.

Evan Kaufman, a comedian from Brooklyn, competed with “Saturday Night Live” alum Tim Meadows.

For $50,000, he was provided a seemingly simple prompt: people with the last name Obama. Kaufman then gave the clue, “Bin Laden.”

The clip, unsurprisingly, is going viral.

Kaufman, who declined to comment to The Post, used Twitter to explain the back story to his response.

“Let me tell you about perhaps the most embarrassing moment of my life,” he writes.

Kaufman says he was starstruck playing with Meadows, one of his “heroes,” and was also extremely exhausted from caring for his newborn baby.

He adds that the producers advised him to read last-round questions very carefully, warning him, “People misread them.”

Upon making it to the last round, Kaufman says, he did just that.

Instead of saying Barack — “The man I would have voted for three times!” — Kaufman attributes his mix-up to his excitable train of thought: “Who is associated with Obama? Who did he kill? What sounds like Obama!”

Though he acknowledged the humor in the clip, Kaufman also noted the damage in his words.

“This just goes to show you that even a liberal Globalist Cuck like yours truly has some inherent racism lurking in my brain,” he writes.

Celebrities have reached out to Kaufman since he posted his response. Patton Oswalt tweeted, “It’s clear you’re a genuinely good egg who massively, catastrophically, hilariously f–ked up. Enjoy it — you’re immortal now.”

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