#Ali g clip series#

Cohen makes Borat's segments a show within itself complete with subtitles and grainy hand-held 3rd world country video. Then, straight from another part of the globe is Kazakstan journalist Borat for the 'Borat in U. Even better, are the round-table discussions on his own graffiti-sprayed, fenced-off, chalk-outline-on-the-flood set, while 'experts' sit around and just take it as Ali G asks the stupidest questions you can't possibly imagine and dodges the slightest reference to homosexuality. Watch as he tries to explain political bias to Sam Donaldson. Watch as Ali G asks Buchanan if it is right to go to war 'over BLTs' and Buchanan just rolls with it. The mind boggles at how Cohen is able to get these. Interviews with James Lipton ('liking acting doesn't make you a queer'), Andy Rooney and Sam Donaldson are priceless. He uses a sex educator to try to prove a child isn't his, tries to make a drug deal with Pat Buchanan if he can ever pass the 'coni' and drops an anecdote about 'me Julie' to anybody. Hilariously, Ali G doesn't know anything about anything, can barely speak the English language through his constant mangled hip-hop slang, is always diverting the interviews to a personal problem of his own and has no appropriateness boundaries whatsoever. Our host for this anarchists' talk show is Ali G, a Brit drowning in Tommy Hilfiger and hip hop culture who genuinely believes that he is black. Having embodied them for years he knows his characters through-and-through and while we don't get any expository background on them he has created such a world for each of them that those paying attention will be rewarded with running gags, quotable catch-phrases and details about their lives. He doesn't just do voices, he has taken the Phil Hendrie approach and created characters.

Under the guise of Ali G wanting to cure America of it's blues in the wake of 'the attacks of 7/11', Cohen graces HBO with his presence and delivers a real treat for those like myself who have never seen his trio of characters on the original British incarnation of 'Da Ali G Show', but only heard about them in television lore.

Always-in-character British satirist Sacha Baron Cohen is several notches above the hacks you'd normally see in a sub-genre that has been co-opted by MTV and Comedy Central for so long.

#Ali g clip series#

Network: HBO Genre: Sketch, Comedy, Improv Content Rating: TV-MA (for graphic sexual dialog, profanity, scatological humor and graphic nudity) Available: DVD Perspective: Cult Classic (star range: 1 - 5) Seasons Reviewed: Complete Series (2 seasons) A comic performer going out into the real world, interacting with real people and annoying them to the breaking point for our amusement has been a staple of tacky infantile TV for as long as I can remember.