As part of a sketch for Channel 4's 11 O'Clock Show in 1998, Ali G got UK Conservative politician Rhodes Boyson to say that children should be 'caned' at school, Baron Cohen was criticised for. Ali G is a cousin of Robert Graham Ali G first appeared on Channel 4's The Eleven O'Clock Show as the 'voice of da yoof' in 1998. Ali G leads Channel 4's winter Staines' finest: Suburban ghetto kid Ali G has been a huge success. Tony Benn and Rhodes Boyson. Comedian Peter Kay also gets his own show, and Harry Hill, Graham Norton and Smack The Pony return to the channel, as does US comedy Sex And The City.

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Ali G is a satirical comic character invented and played by the EnglishcomedianSacha Baron Cohen. Originally appearing on Channel 4's Eleven O'Clock show, Ali G is the title character of Channel 4's Da Ali G Show, which now appears on HBO.

[edit]History

Ali G is a cousin of Robert Graham Ali G first appeared on Channel 4's The Eleven O'Clock Show as the 'voice of da yoof' in 1998.^[1] He interviewed various public figures in the United Kingdom.

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An early interview occurred with fashion designer Tomasz Starzewski. Ali G suggested that the Wonderbra should be banned, as it misleads men into thinking that a girl's breasts are larger than they are. He tells an anecdote of being disappointed when a girl he had 'pulled' was wearing a Wonderbra. He also asked Starzewski if he was pleased Gianni Versace was slain because it meant less competition, and suggested that he heard a rumour that Calvin Klein did it.

Other examples of his bold interviewing style include getting the Bishop of Horsham to admit that God created the Universe, and then asked him, 'And since then, He's [God's] just chilled?' Ali G asked the Bishop about God's appearance, to which the Bishop replied, 'Well, he's sort of Jesus-shaped.' During an interview with James Ferman (former director of the British Board of Film Classification), Ali G asks whether his made-up vulgarities would restrict a film to an over-18 audience, and suggests that film censorship be performed by younger persons who understand contemporary slang. Ali G begins an interview with the Chairman of the Arts Council of England Gerryl Robinson with the question, 'Why is it that everything you fund is so crap?'

Ali G was featured as a limousinedriver in Madonna's video, 'Music,'[1] and subsequently recorded his own record with reggae/pop performer Shaggy.[2] In 2001, Ali G hosted MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2002, he was the central character in the feature film Ali G Indahouse, in which he is elected to the British Parliament, and foils a plot to bulldoze a community centre in his home town of Staines. Ali G is presently the title character of HBO'sDa Ali G Show, which features two other characters played by Cohen: Borat Sagdiyev, a foreign correspondent from Kazakhstan, and Bruno, a fashion reporter for Austria's fictional 'Gay TV'.

Ali G was featured in a series of ads for the 2005-06 NBA season, in which he used his brand of off-kilter journalism to interview various NBA stars. The spots were directed by Spike Lee.

[edit]Background

Ali G (Alistair Graham)(brother of Robert Graham) is a [fictional] gang member of the 'West Staines Massiv', and lives with his grandmother in a semidetached house at 36 Cherry Blossom Close, in the heart of the 'Staines Ghetto'. He was educated at what he calls 'da Matthew Arnold Skool' which is a real secondary school in Staines. Staines is a middle-class town to the west of London that has been the butt of jokes for many years, and is far different from the inner cityghetto that Ali G claims. Just the same, he purports to exemplify gangsta culture.

[edit]Notable people interviewed by Ali G

• Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, astronaut, and the second man to walk on the moon. (Ali G also called him 'Buzz Lightyear').
• Football player David Beckham and wife Victoria Beckham, a former singer
• Tony Benn, former British Labour MP, chairman and cabinet minister
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Secretary General of the United Nations
• Rhodes Boyson, former British Conservative cabinet minister
• Professional basketball players Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Ben Wallace, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan,Dwyane Wade, Richard Jefferson, Vince Carter, Steve Kerr, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith
• Pat Buchanan, political commentator
• Noam Chomsky, MIT Professor
• Jarvis Cocker, Pulp singer
• Gaz Coombes, Supergrass singer
• Paul Daniels, magician
• Sam Donaldson, veteran journalist
• Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of Harrods and Fulham FC
• Daryl Gates, former LAPD Chief
• Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives
• Neil Hamilton, former Conservative politician
• Kent Hovind, evangelist and Young Earth creationist
• Jenna Jameson, Adult film star
• C. Everett Koop, former US Surgeon General
• James Lipton, host of Bravo's Inside the Actor's Studio
• John McCain, United States Senator from Arizona
• Ralph Nader, consumer activist and former US presidential candidate for the Green Party
• Thomas J. Pickard, former FBI Director
• Gail Porter, television presenter
• Sally Jessy Raphaël, former talk show host
• Andy Rooney, of the CBS program 60 Minutes
• Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor and Air Force General
• Dick Thornburgh, former U.S. Attorney General
• Christine Todd Whitman, former New Jersey governor and EPA administrator
• Donald Trump, real estate developer
• Gore Vidal, author and essayist
• Sammy Wilson, northern Irish politician Democratic Unionist Party

[edit]References

1. ^'He becomes the character, certainly with Ali G and Borat. He has a mix of Sellers's acting and Rod Hull's bottle' by Kirsty Scott, The Guardian, September 29, 2006.

[edit]External links

• Ali G, Borat and Bruno.,
• IndexTube List of Ali G movies from Youtube and Google-Video