Ali G interviews Chomsky

[Clutch Munny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro

NC: If he speaks two languages, we call him bilingual.
AG: But Professor, ain't wrong to say that just because him might be able to speak two languages, that him will be into ladies and also into boys? ... How would you like it if I called you bilingual?

I think Chomsky was mostly playing along.

[Tanda]

http://www.leelefever.com/archives/ali%20g%20jewels.jpg
BooYaKasha!

[lisarea]

I don't have anything good to say. Just bumping because that is the coolest.

Doesn't Chomsky usually hate being treated like a celebrity? I'm surprised he agreed to an interview with Ali G. But I guess that's what makes it good.

[viscousmemories]

That's pretty funny, but I'd never heard of Ali G. until I saw this thread.

[Dingfod]

I still don't know who the hell Ali G is and why he is famous, assuming he is.

[viscousmemories]

Apparently he's a "British comedic genius" with a show on HBO (http://www.hbo.com/alig/).

[erimir]

He is hilaaaaaaarious.

Look up Ali G on youtube. Then look up Bruno (or mit bruno, or ali g + bruno, etc.). Then look up Borat as well.

I just watched the one about religion, and he had this crotchety old Catholic priest on there, and he was asking him if it wasn't hypocritical that they're all for celibacy but so many nuns are also strippers.

[The Jesus Lawyer]

ali g is a genius at being stupid. hilarious :D

michael :)

[viscousmemories]

I watched the Ali G show tonight and I was cracking up.

He interviewed Pat Buchanan about Iraq's alleged BLT program (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwEd_tcKBfU), talked to a veteran veterinarian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkblLU_OA08) about why there were so many sick animals in Vietnam, confided his incestuous inclinations to a panel of family values advocates (couldn't find a clip), then followed a politician around (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_K6kOsEgpI) as he campaigned (as Borat). Funny stuff.

[Petra]

I love the way he finishes interviews with "big up yourself". :giggle:

[Petra]

I just watched the one about religion, and he had this crotchety old Catholic priest...

Hehe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7C_Nwurunw&search=ali%20g%20

The Priest has a face like Cheney.

[D. Scarlatti]

Borat's making a movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443453/).

[erimir]

Ali G discusses evolution with Kent Hovind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8GJqcnepxU&search=ali%20g) and some other people.

[Chatter]

There was some excellent stuff in "Ali G in the USA", but in many of the interviews, he drags the same joke out for too long. For instance, the main joke of the Chomsky interview was a predictable confusion between "bisexual" and "bilingual".

You might want to try getting hold of Ali G, innit (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005QB91/ref=sr_11_1/002-2838114-8708008?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130). This is a compilation of the original interviews he did for the "Eleven O'Clock Show", a show which introduced both he and Ricky Gervais to comedy. The interviews in this compilation are absolutely fantastic, and some of them genuinely clever (such as the interview with a professor of Brunel University discussing infinity). It also features a superb interview with another greatly admired left-wing figure, Tony Benn, with Benn taking no nonsense from Ali and coming off extremely respectable.

Early stuff in the UK with Borat and Bruno was superb as well. Cohen was on a fulltime mission as Bruno to expose some of the rampant bollocks talked about in the UK's fashion industry, and did so convincingly.

[Jacey]

Yo, respec'

[D. Scarlatti]

Ali G discusses evolution with Kent Hovind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8GJqcnepxU&search=ali%20g) and some other people.

:laugh:

"But the banana fing got 'im, innit?"

[Clutch Munny]

There was some excellent stuff in "Ali G in the USA", but in many of the interviews, he drags the same joke out for too long. For instance, the main joke of the Chomsky interview was a predictable confusion between "bisexual" and "bilingual".

You might want to try getting hold of Ali G, innit (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005QB91/ref=sr_11_1/002-2838114-8708008?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130). This is a compilation of the original interviews he did for the "Eleven O'Clock Show", a show which introduced both he and Ricky Gervais to comedy.

Was that also the sublimely naughty Daisy Donovan's breakthrough vehicle, or was she known before that? I thought that only the combination of she, Baron-Cohen, and Gervais made the Eleven O'Clock Show worth watching.

[Chatter]

Was that also the sublimely naughty Daisy Donovan's breakthrough vehicle, or was she known before that? I thought that only the combination of she, Baron-Cohen, and Gervais made the Eleven O'Clock Show worth watching.I have seen clips of Baron Cohen presenting an earlier programme, not as any particular character, and from what I saw it looked bloody awful. He was in the first series of the "Eleven O'Clock Show", and it was generally accepted that people only tuned in to see his Ali G interviews, with the studio audience often cheering when they were shown. After the first series he quit and was given his own series "Da Ali G Show". Meanwhile, Daisy Donovan joined in the second series of the "Eleven O'Clock Show", as co-presenter, and I think it was her first television appearance..

I thought Iain Lee was good though. I guess that the demands of the show were just too much for him and the team -- each episode was written the day it was broadcast, with three showings a week.

[Clutch Munny]

Was that also the sublimely naughty Daisy Donovan's breakthrough vehicle, or was she known before that? I thought that only the combination of she, Baron-Cohen, and Gervais made the Eleven O'Clock Show worth watching.I have seen clips of Baron Cohen presenting an earlier programme, not as any particular character, and from what I saw it looked bloody awful. He was in the first series of the "Eleven O'Clock Show", and it was generally accepted that people only tuned in to see his Ali G interviews, with the studio audience often cheering when they were shown. After the first series he quit and was given his own series "Da Ali G Show". Meanwhile, Daisy Donovan joined in the second series of the "Eleven O'Clock Show", as co-presenter, and I think it was her first television appearance..

Am I misremembering? I'm sure I recall Daisy co-hosting episodes with Ali G segments.

[Chatter]

Am I misremembering? I'm sure I recall Daisy co-hosting episodes with Ali G segments.No, you're right. She did segments in the original series as a "reporter", and then took a role in the studio in the second, finally becoming a co-presenter in the third series. It has been a long time since I saw the show.