"Da Ali G Show" is ba-ack! Great interview with Sacha Baron Cohen.

[HuckleB]

Luckily, I've got friends who tape it for me.

The Cheerful Confessions of Ali G, Borat and Bruno

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/15/arts/television/15ALI.html?hp

"Da Ali G Show," the British comic Sacha Baron Cohen's HBO series, returns for its second American season on Sunday.

While playing the part of Ali G, an imbecilic and gonzo rapper who speaks in Caribbean-British slang, Mr. Baron Cohen in the first few episodes interviews Pat Buchanan, Sam Donaldson and Gore Vidal. For all the publicity that Ali G received in his initial HBO season, in which he put on the likes of Newt Gingrich, the former astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and the former director of central intelligence R. James Woolsey, none of this season's august figures managed to see their disguised interviewer for who he is: a wickedly smart, left-wing comedian and practicing Jew with a degree from Cambridge.

In man-on-the-street interviews and other stunts this season, Mr. Baron Cohen also reprises the characters of Borat, an unwashed, leering Kazakh, and Bruno, an Austrian gadfly from the fashion world. Typically averse to talking out of costume and character, Mr. Baron Cohen still sat down this week to discuss his approach to satire, his fear of America and the secret wild ways of Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Here are excerpts."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/15/arts/television/15ALI.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

Sounds like it should be great, once again.

[blm]

1. I can't believe the GOPers never figured it out.

Especially after that "floater" episode.

[HuckleB]

2. It does seem amazing.

Hmm. I would think that there would be more fans here at DU.

[phillybri]

3. Ali G is awesome....

"Virgin, what say you?"

[HuckleB]

4. Hee hee.

Kick.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. I loooove that show!

Just watched episodes 1-6 on Comcast On Demand the other day...

[fujiyama]

6. That thing

with James Baker was hilarious...or was it Scowcroft? I think he had both of them once.

That thing about sticks and carrots was great. I love when he asked "What if they have a lot of carrots and don't like them?".

[bigwillq]

7. Entertainment Weekly also had a brief interview

with him. Some funny shit in that one too!

Don't have a link, sorry but it was in last week's issue.

[HuckleB]

8. Coolio.

[HuckleB]

9. OK. I confess.

I am amazed at how lame DU is on this one.

How out of it are the folks who post here?

Sorry to be an asshole, but obviously I am an asshole, so what are ya gonna do?

Watch this show!