Da Ali G Show

If I actually had HBO I probably would watch it. Though, from what I've seen of it in clips it looks pretty good.
 
I saw it-

Baker- "International Relations is about carrots and sticks."

Ali G- "But what if a country doesn't like carrots?"

Baker- "Well I don't mean carrots literally. We don't really give away carrots."

Ali G- "But what if it's like a famine and they could use those carrots."

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Ali G- "which language is the funniest."

Boutros Boutros Gali- "I'd have to say Arabic."

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Ali G- "So what about natural gas, I mean if someone lets one go."

Nader- "Well they say there's thousands of cows that are polluting the atmosphere'
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Ali - "So maybe we can like capture those cow farts"

Nader- "Best of my knowledge no one has figured a way to connect a box to a cows asshole."
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At a few times I thought, damn that's silly, but other's hysterical. THat bit with newt was pretty funny about child planning.

Kind of reminds me of when Stern used to send Stuttering John to do interviews.
 
thought you might appreciate this CCR-

Last week was so funny with the Gay Converter minister and the "ach ja" or "nicht nicht"


July 22, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Right Axis. Wrong Evil.
By MAUREEN DOWD

ASHINGTON — The capital has plunged into satire.

There's the bizarre investigation of Sandy Burglar, as the respected former national security adviser has now been dubbed, pulling a Fawn Hall and smuggling stuff out of the National Archives in his fine washables.

And just when you thought the Bush foreign policy couldn't sound more chuckleheaded, revelations in the 9/11 commission report being released today elevated the Bush doctrine to an Ali G skit.

The most astute prophet of the administration's Middle East muddle is Sacha Baron Cohen, the hilarious British comedian whose Ali G character is an uninformed gangsta rapper interviewing unwitting V.I.P.'s.

This Sunday, HBO will run Ali G's interview with Pat Buchanan, in which he presses the broadcaster about why no "B.L.T.'s" were found in Iraq. Mr. Buchanan plays along, but it's not clear if he actually thinks there were B.L.T.'s in Saddam's arsenal. (Mr. Cohen speculated in The Times later that Mr. Buchanan might have thought it was argot for "ballistic long-range-trajectory missiles.")

Last year, Ali G asked James Baker III, the Bush I secretary of state, if it was wise for Iraq and Iran to have such similar names. "Isn't there a real danger," the faux rapper wondered, "that someone give a message over the radio to one of them fighter pilots, saying 'Bomb Ira-' and the geezer doesn't heard it properly" and bombs the wrong one?

"No danger," Mr. Baker replied.

Well, as it turns out, the United States did bomb the wrong Ira-.

President Bush says he's now investigating Qaeda-Iran ties, and whether Iran helped the 9/11 hijackers.

Whoops. Right axis. Wrong evil.

It's like Emily Litella - "What's all this fuss I hear about making Puerto Rico a steak?" - except the U.S. can't simply shrug "Never mind" because 900 American troops are dead.

The Bush administration had no good intelligence, so it decided to invade the Ira- that was weaker.

The war was based on phony W.M.D. analyses and fallacious welcome scenarios drummed up by the neocon Chihuahua Ahmad Chalabi.

Mr. Bush should have worried about the Axis of Evil in the order of the threat posed: North Korea, which has nukes; Iran, which almost has nukes; Iraq, which wanted nukes.

Now American forces are so depleted that the Pentagon is pulling forces out of South Korea to go to Iraq. And, given the huge National Guard deployment in Iraq, states say they don't have enough manpower to guard prisoners, fight wildfires or police the streets.

Besides excoriating the C.I.A. and F.B.I. and chronicling as many as 10 missed opportunities to pick up on the 9/11 plot - in the Bush years and in the Clinton era - the 9/11 commission report has new evidence that Iran may have helped up to 10 of the hijackers with safe passage from Osama's Afghan training camps.

"Grimly, what the new 9/11 report makes clear is that nearly three years into the war on terror, America is still not close to understanding the enemy," Michael Isikoff and Michael Hersh report in Newsweek. "And Washington seems less able to force Tehran to change its ways, especially since Bush has removed one of the chief threats to the mullah regime, Saddam Hussein, and is now bogged down in Iraq. As one intel official said before the Iraq war: 'The Iranians are tickled by our focus on Iraq.' "

Just as the invasion of Iraq was "a Christmas gift" to Osama, as the C.I.A. official who wrote a book as "Anonymous" put it, in terms of recruiting in the Muslim world and diverting the U.S., so it may be a gift to Iran. U.S. military officials say Iranian agents have been helping Iraqi insurgents as a way to shape Iraq into a Shiite fundamentalist satellite.

Though the 9/11 panel found no "collaborative" relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, it found one between Iran and Al Qaeda - but no evidence that Iranian officials knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks.

The report concludes that "Al Qaeda's relationship with Iran and its client, the Hezbollah militant group, was far deeper and more longstanding than its links with Iraq," according to The Washington Post.

Mr. Bush vowed to deal harshly with any country that harbors terrorists or assisted the 9/11 plot. But our military is so overextended from invading Ira-, we'd be hard pressed to go after Ira-.
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Ali G was funny for awhile, but then he got lost in clichés.
The first series he did was pretty good (or the stuff originally on the 11 O' Clock Show), he got his interviewees to say some pretty stupid/funny things by acting like he was a moron. By series two, he was just spouting rubbish and trying too hard to be funny. Maybe the character had rubbed off onto him.
 
Big_T_UK said:
Ali G was funny for awhile, but then he got lost in clichés.
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You might be right about the one character but when he is running around as Borat, it's hilarious. Watching Americans try to deal with him is great.
 
Buckle said:
You might be right about the one character but when he is running around as Borat, it's hilarious. Watching Americans try to deal with him is great.
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Yeah, but again, it was only funny when he first started the character.
 
I saw the first episode of the second season and Borat at the wine tasting was a riot. I don't think that character is stale... Yet.
 
I almost had a heart attack laughing. I can't belive how much I laughed. Borat was at this Tuscon, AZ, redneck bar, and he started singing. Funniest thing is that the rednecks started laughing with him.

In my country there is problem,
And that problem is transport.
It take very very long,
Because Kazakhstan is big.

Throw transport down the well,
So my country can be free.
We must make travel easy,
Then we have big party!

In my country there is problem,
And that problem is the Jew.
They take everybody's money,
They never give it back.

Throw the Jew down the well,
So my country can be free.
You must grab him by his horns,
Then we have big party.

If you see the Jew coming,
You must be careful of his teeth.
You must grab him by his money,
And I tell you what to do...

Everybody!

Throw the Jew down the well
So my country can be free
You must grab him by his horns
Then we have big party

Throw the Jew down the well
So my country can be free
You must grab him by his horns
Then we have big party!
 
:D

Yes it was quite funny.

Caused a little stir, but when people are facing the fact that he himself, is jewish, they end up with no leg to stand on.

/edit: Watched the video again...

Seeing the people at that bar makes me want to get the hell out of this hick town.
 
Been watchin' Ali G for awhile now... really hit or miss, but still very amazing when he's on. Anyone see the one with Andy Runey(sic?)? Those type of people are probably the suckiest people I know of... although those kids who always have a story that is 10x better/worse than the one you just told are pretty sucky too
 
My favorite was from the first season when he interviewed Buzz Alderin and calls him Buzz Lightyear. That whole interview was hilarious. Also the commercials last year where he talked to NBA players during the playoffs
 
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