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Da Ali G Show

  • TV Series
  • 2000–2004
  • Tous publics
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
19K
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Sacha Baron Cohen in Da Ali G Show (2000)
Sacha Baron Cohen has spent years interviewing unsuspecting subjects as characters like Ali G, Brüno, and Borat, who returned to the big screen in 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.' "No Small Parts" takes a look at Sacha's origins as a television host, as well as his transition to dramatic acting work.
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Sacha Baron Cohen provides an inimitable mix of global reportage and celebrity chat via his characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev and Brüno Gehard.Sacha Baron Cohen provides an inimitable mix of global reportage and celebrity chat via his characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev and Brüno Gehard.Sacha Baron Cohen provides an inimitable mix of global reportage and celebrity chat via his characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev and Brüno Gehard.

  • Creator
    • Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Stars
    • Sacha Baron Cohen
    • T.N.T. Crew
    • Steve Ellington
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  • IMDb RATING
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    19K
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    • Creator
      • Sacha Baron Cohen
    • Stars
      • Sacha Baron Cohen
      • T.N.T. Crew
      • Steve Ellington
    • 32User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 6 Primetime Emmys
      • 6 wins & 10 nominations total

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    Sacha Baron Cohen
    Sacha Baron Cohen
    • Ali G…
    • 2000–2004
    T.N.T. Crew
    • Musicians…
    • 2000
    Steve Ellington
    • Self
    • 2000
    Charles Dicagno
    • Self
    • 2003
    James A. Baker
    James A. Baker
    • Self
    • 2003
    Marlin Fitzwater
    Marlin Fitzwater
    • Self
    • 2003
    Buzz Aldrin
    Buzz Aldrin
    • Self
    • 2003
    Tamzin Outhwaite
    Tamzin Outhwaite
    • Melanie…
    • 2000
    Jarvis Cocker
    Jarvis Cocker
    • Self
    • 2000
    Arthur Danto
    • Self
    • 2003
    Keith Lawrence
    • Self
    • 2003
    James Lipton
    James Lipton
    • Self
    • 2003
    Lee Levinson
    • Self
    • 2003
    Jane Thornhill
    • Self
    • 2003
    Jennifer Defrancisco
    Jennifer Defrancisco
    • Self
    • 2003
    Tee Woolman
    • Self
    • 2003
    Shepard Smith
    Shepard Smith
    • Self
    • 2003
    John Judge
    • Self
    • 2003
    • Creator
      • Sacha Baron Cohen
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    9nunstampede

    Talented Improvisor, and Great Character Sketches

    At this point in his career, Cohen has made a movie for all three of the characters who are frequent in this show, and I have to say that I prefer all of their appearances in Da Ali G Show to their full-length movies, although that may be because they work better in this setting. The show has no real determination to establish and maintain a followable plot-line, and it ends up as a collection of short segments from each character every episode. This allows Sascha Baron Cohen to remain calm, clear-headed, and to really fire on all cylinders with the sometimes improvised, always hilarious sketches.

    The show is comprised mostly of interviews arranged for in the field, but Ali G does have studio interviews where he asks others to come to him and discuss controversial topics. The premise of the show is basically the humor behind a clash of culture, and we frequently see the characters in situations where they simply do not belong. Ali G and Borat both have a kind of ignorant edge, making them totally absorbed into the culture they're used to and at times lethal around people with different backgrounds. Bruno plays a lesser role in the show, and really isn't one of my favorite characters all together, but his goal is basically to surround himself with people unaccustomed to gay culture and to make them writhe in discomfort.

    Borat's interview with a dating service and Ali G's forum on porno and abstinence are absolutely hysterical, and Ali G even has an interview terminated for "stupidity".

    I think that this show, more than any of the movies displays the characters in their best light, and also shows more than anything how talented Sascha really is. There were times when viewing this show that I stopped laughing prematurely to acknowledge how truly impressed I was that he was able to keep a straight face while unleashing absolute nonsense based on real (albeit exaggerated) stereotypes.
    jjacobs1

    Ali G Borat and Bruno: The Holy Trinity

    I cannot choose my favorite character of the three. Is it Ali G? The irascible child/adolescent British "gangsta" black? or Middle Eastern?guy..oblivious to much and yet so childishly poignant in his worldly assessments that sometimes....sometimes...he makes sense...check out his interview with American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who Ali calls "Buzz Lightyear." Aldrin is the patient avuncular soul, never condescending or showing impatience with his petulant interviewer..unlike the rather ungallant Newt GIngrich or JAmes LIpton....never mind the horrific DOnald Trump who is in such a hurry he never has time to grasp ALi and comes off as a crass though not completely without humor "suit"....I enjoyed Lipton's rejection of Ali's pre-penned rap...and the one he scribbled and performed wasn't half bad....high five for that.....

    Borat is the adorable foreigner miscreant we all want to love and humor despite his hilarious and shocking public announcements....the SOuth CArolina dinner foibles is classic Borat....the dating agency between the scantily clad interviewer to the matronly Texan who BOrat naively asks"When will we make sexy intercourse?" He wants to "crush" any woman who would "cheat" him...the pronouncement at dinner that his sister is a prostitute because "she like to make money...she is nice"...the extended singing of his national anthem at the "baseballs" game...My favorite of everything...is it the audience's pretend politeness, the pained graciousness? THe contrived intensity of Borat as he warbles his national anthem? I'm not sure...but it works.

    ANd last of the trinity, Bruno.....the sashaying fashion gossipy boy, gay and shallow...yet so able to probe his naive fashion designers into self-ridicule...the consistently inconsistent answers he draws from the fashion designers is funny ...and also frightening....his worm down the runway when he manages to sham his way as a male model is priceless...."Begin to look" he shouts as he turns his thonged exposed bottom on the seedy streets of LA introducing a supposed Austrian audience lapping up his adventure in seedy capital.....

    SOme one stop me...Sacha Baron Cohen is a hands down genius and I do not want to see him highly successful as that will necessarily mean his subversiveness is no longer subversive...he is a jewel in a cavern that I do not mind sharing with some...keep the ignorant masses away...I did like that the Queen Mother snapped her fingers and uttered "Respek" at Christmas dinner to her royal family...we may just be unable to prevent the tide when it is the right time...if so, let the waters of comedic satiric Cohen fall down all around....
    T1mil477

    Best Personality Ever

    Ali is the best personality on television. I live in America and only found out about him from a friend but once I saw him I couldn't stop laughing. This guy is hilarious and would take America by storm if his show ever aired here. I recommend that everyone watches this guy at least once and I'll guarantee that you'll be coming for more.
    mynameischristopher

    A very funny and smart Show

    This has been showing in the U.K. for a long time and is very funny and a smart way of showing people in a true selves, Unfortunately the summary of the show is a little misleading.... the character is not meant to be a "Jamaican-British" but a person from a non-Jamaican background that thinks he is...It is not clear from this show that was shown around the world but the original shows shown in the U.K. it was, for e.g. he has a Jamaican D.J... on the his show each week, which he tries to talk to in Jamaican and has to refer to his "how to speak Jamaican" book because the D.J. cant understand him. I just felt I had to clear that up as it makes quite a big difference to how the character comes across...Funny as opposed to offensive. Overall great show with very much on-the-ball writers.
    ChaCha44

    Not To Be Believed Funny!

    I would never dare tell a person what he or she should find funny but I will tell anyone who is bothering to read this comment that Da Ali G Show is an hysterical riot because of the genius of Sacha Baron Cohen. You cannot judge Da Ali G. Show by watching 1 or 2 sketches, it really is something that needs to be judged on the whole. I find 75% of his sketches range from funny to hilarious. The other 25% range from watchable to good. The joy of Da Ali G. Show is watching three separate characters, Ali G (a wannabe gangster type), Borat (a middle eastern reporter) and Bruno (a gay Austrian reporter) interact with people from the well-known to the average person. There are too many good times to be had that I won't bother to mention specifics but if you watch at least a couple of episodes, you will be rewarded with some of the funniest, laugh out loud times you can have in front of the television. For the jaded, been there, done that crowd, if you haven't seen Da Ali G. Show, you haven't been there or done that.

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    • Trivia
      The first version of the show to feature the "Bruno" character. The original UK series only had Ali G and Borat.
    • Goofs
      During the opening credits, when Ali G's shoes are flying toward him, the shot from the shoes' point-of-view shows the them coming in backwards and upside down. The other shots showing the flying shoes, however, have them coming in the other way up.
    • Quotes

      Ali: This is BS! That's short for bullshit.

    • Connections
      Edited into The Best of Borat (2001)

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    • Release date
      • November 13, 2001 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Channel 4 (United Kingdom)
      • Channel 4 (United Kingdom)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ali G in da USAiii
    • Filming locations
      • Waterfall Studios, Wood Lane, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Channel 4 Television Corporation
      • FremantleMedia
      • Four by Two Films
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    • Runtime
      • 30m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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