'Ali G' enrages rodeo crowd

[wicket]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1243181.html

Ali G comic Sacha Baron Cohen is being blamed for a hoax which enraged cowboys at a US rodeo. The comedian's other alter ego, bumbling Kazakhstani Borat Sagdiyev, is the chief suspect behind the stunt at a rodeo at Salem, Massachusetts.

It started when a 'Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat' was introduced to the crowd as Borat Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, an immigrant touring America.

Speaking in broken English, the man said: "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards. And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq."

He then told the crowd to be seated, put his hat back on, and launched into a butchered version of The Star-Spangled Banner that ended with the words "your home in the grave".

[Vektor]

1. Um, wow...

That's sort of sick, actually.

[bunny planet]

88. Actually Borat is an ingenious character whose persona reflects and

spoofs the real genocidal idiots out there. Sascha Baron Cohen is making fun of the people who really feel the way Borat does. It is very funny but the underlying concept of the satire is to reveal these monsters for what they are. Each character he does goes after a different type of bigot it seems, Borat highlights anti-semitism and genocidal infighting in civil conflicts within eastern block countries, Bruno goes after the homophobes, and Ali G just lampoons everybody in between especially the pompous politicians and talking heads he interviews. Hysterical show but definitely not for everyone. An acquired taste for some.

[jdj]

109. okay, I'm reassured.

an being a backwoods redneck by birth, I REALLY respect the kind of courage it takes to do these things. He could have been shot at any moment. It's hard enough to confront an individual freeper or idiot, but a whole crowd of them? Wow.

[SweetLeftFoot]

2. Borat

Rolled gold genius. His door-step witha Republican congressional candidate is genius - "He will be strong leader ... like Stalin!"

[The Night Owl]

18. Borat: He will take power!

I loved that.

[SweetLeftFoot]

45. Throw the Jew Down The Well

utter genius.

[name not needed]

70. So my country can be free!

We must grab him by his horns,
then we have a big party!

Sorry. I couldn't resist.
:7

[Zuni]

84. It goes: God, man, horse, dog, woman, rat and little kratilla

[rooboy]

3. ROFLMAO...

balls of steel, that guy.

[BBradley]

8. So would the crowd be justified in tearing him to shreds?

And would he be liable for any deaths caused by said crowds mad rush to tear said comedian to shreds?

:P :evilgrin:

[Bucky]

116. No, But man, you still don't fuck with the national anthem.

It takes real courage to do something like that. Or perhaps real stupidity. Or is that splitting hairs?

[Ganja Ninja]

4. I guess sarcasm doesn't go over well with rodeo fans.

:evilgrin:

[MADem]

5. A rodeo in SALEM, MA????

That's the strangest part of the whole article. The Bay State isn't exactly OK Corral country. It must have been indoors, we've had a lot of snow lately...

[Braden]

7. salem resident here

I love Borat but there arent many cowboys here in salem. I cant imagine where a rodeo would be held in this town.

[Turley]

15. Salem, VA article is wrong. nt

.

[MaineDem]

31. My first thought, too!

Ahhh, VA is more like it.

[maveric]

67. I was wondering about that too.

Is the next stop for the rodeo in Lawrence?

[rodeodance]

6. they tend to on the conservative "patrioitc" side (not all)

[Judi Lynn]

9. Found some photos of the guy. Interesting act, maybe.....

[MADem]

11. Here he is as Borat--Quite a comedian, Sacha is!

[Zuni]

105. "It is like sex with my sister..."

[leftchick]

16. Interesting to say the least!

I have caught his show a few times and he has guts I tell you. He does the most outrageous stuff to, politicians, activists and just normal folks who never know he is doing satire. The best was his interview with Pat Buchanan. ROFL! This latest stunt is certain to show up on HBO soon and I can't wait to see it.

Go Ali G!
:)

[ET Awful]

24. The Buchanan bit was hysterical :)

It's amazing that people still fall for his act every time :)

You'd think they would have caught on by now.

[Tafiti]

46. I think Ali G is hilarious!

Apparently, he wore out his welcome, so-to-speak, in England, so he came to the U.S. to do it. I feel like after his popularity rises, there won't be anyone left to "interview."

Did you happen to catch the one with Andy Rooney? He was pissed off.

[Guns Aximbo]

47. I really do love Rooney

I respect him greatly... But that episode was funny. I do have a problem though with taking advantage of Senior C's. Rooney just didn't understand what the heck G was talking about. ( I feel bad about it)

[Tafiti]

64. As far as that goes...

...I guess I didn't feel "bad" for Rooney since he was a prick right back to him. There have been other instances where he was messing with senior citizens and they had no idea. Those are the ones I feel worse for.

You gotta admit, that was classic when Rooney corrected his grammar (Rooney: No! What DO you think, not what DOES you think! -- Ali G: You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.) HAHAHA! I was dying laughing...

[Atman]

41. "Will we find BLT's in Iraq?"

"And is it ever worth fighting a war over sandwiches?"

Pat Buchanan went right along with him...it was one of the funniest things I've seen on teevee in a long time! Ali G is hysterical, in reasonably small doses.



NotBannedYet.US

[KurtNYC]

49. Bunch of Ali G clips

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/cat_ali_g_video.html

Includes Buchanan interview on finding BLTs in Iraq.

Ali-G: Let's say he didn't have mustard and the "B.L.T.'s" just was plain would you been able to go in there then

Buchanan: No

Ali-G: Is it ever worth fighting a war over sandwiches

Buchanan: Is it ever worth fighting a war — yes

[jdj]

111. thanks, he's brilliant

I just hope he's very, very careful when messin' with rednecks, they are pathological.

That's not judgement, I'm just saying I know my kin is all.

Maybe he's naive. Probably not. Thanks for the clips, it's good to know there is someone out there doing work like that, with humor. This is performance art where the subjects actually participate. Types like Andy Rooney have had this coming for a long, long time, I hope that profession dies completely, these human institutions of media that act like their opinion matters more than most average people, like they are so smart they need to tell us how to think and feel. Fuck them, I hope he embarasses every one of them.

[wicket]

27. Ali G has a show on HBO, it's hilarious!

:)

[xchrom]

10. i love it!

wow!
amazing -- that's just -- i don't know -- fabulous, for lack of a better word.

[shawn703]

12. LOL, I didn't know Borat was Ali G

I don't watch his show that much, but I thought they were two separate people all this time.

[MADem]

17. He's also that Dutch gay guy, Dieter or whatever n/t

[bunny planet]

89. Bruno

[jman0]

13. hope to see this scene sometime

i love Ali G

[Cooley Hurd]

14. Sacha Baron Cohen is a GENIUS!

:thumbsup:

If this rodeo were in Texas, the crowd would've CHEERED at the "George W. Bush drink the blood" line...:scared:

[Judi Lynn]

19. Sure glad to have read this article.Never had heard of the guy 'til now.nt

[Just Me]

20. Whoah. That must have stunned some people awake.

Talk about a form of "shock therapy" *LOL*!!!

[Pert_UK]

21. Why does an article not about Ali G start with "Ali G......"

Very odd.

Best Borat moments:

"Do you hunt?"
"No, I'm retired..."
"Oh, you are retard, like mongoloid?"
"Yes..."

At an anti-hunting rally:

"There are no bears in Kazakhstan, we shot them all"
"Why did you shoot them?"
"For fun....."

At a dinner party:
"My wife...she is dead. She died in a field, from work......But I have new wife now!"

[wicket]

28. Ali G = Borat

It's a character he plays (actually, they are both characters played by the same comedian).

[Pert_UK]

38. Errrrr.....no, actually.....

Ali G is one character from Sacha Baron-Cohen (Sp?). Borat is another completely different character. So, you could legitimately start the article with, "Sacha Baron-Cohen........" but not "Ali G". You could argue that Borat was at the rodeo, you could argue that Sacha Baron-Cohen was at the rodeo, but you can't claim that Ali G was at the rodeo because he wasn't. It's just lazy journalism IMHO.

You wouldn't start an article about Mike Myers' character Wayne from Wayne's World at a rodeo with "Austin Powers Outrages Rodeo......." it doesn't make any sense.

On edit: Just before I die of pedantry, it's really only the headline that I'm picking holes in. I think it does make sense to say "Ali G comic Sacha Baron Cohen is being blamed for a hoax which enraged cowboys at a US rodeo", but the headline clearly implies that it was the Ali G character that caused the offense.

[wicket]

42. I misunderstood, sorry

I need my coffee! :hangover:

[bicentennial_baby]

22. Bwahahaha

I love Sacha...he rocks!

[ET Awful]

23. I still think the funniest was when he was in Texas (I think it was

Texas), and (remember that he's Jewish) doing his Borat bit talking about how evil the Jews were and singing a song about throwing all the Jews in a well, and all the rednecks were sitting around agreeing with him :).

The guy truly knows how to make people expose their own evil underbelly :)

[blueknight]

25. respeck!

[dean_dem]

63. People don't talk enough about respeck these days....

In fact, if you go in the dictionary to look up "respeck" its not even in there.

[w13rd0]

26. In one segment...

...he got some total 'homophobic' Rapture Ready ass to admit he found the sight of mens privates exciting. I do wonder how many times he's had to file assault charges...

[bunny planet]

90. Booo rocka sha!

[ausiedownunderground]

29. ALI G - Legend in the rest of the Anglo-Saxon World

Citizens of the US be careful. ALI G is "huge" around the rest of the Anglo-Saxon World! He specializes in what we would call "Taking the Piss" out of people and particularly cultures. He's actually a Jew called Cohen (No-you don't say). It took OZ two series of his show before we even started to love him!! He is very good! particularly when you first experience him! "Jesusland" is an absolutely "Easy" target!!! British,OZ,Kiwi and maybe Canadian TV will see this later on in 2005 and probably "laugh" their heads off at "Jesusland's" stupidity and bigotry. Remember he's supposedly from Kazakhstan!!!LOL

[wicket]

35. I love his show on HBO

It's a riot!!! :)

[chenGOD]

53. Umm just for clarification: Cohen started out in Britain.

So i think you guys down under might have cottoned on to him a little after the typical british viewer...

but yes, he's great

[Zuni]

86. His show in the UK is great but it has a laugh track

that is why I prefer him on HBO

[Zuni]

85. He has been on HBO for several years

his show has a huge cult following in the US, including me. He has been all over 'Jesusland' for two seasons.

[SHRED]

30. Ali G' FOR PRESIDENT!

[velvet]

32. LMAO

As Ali G would say: R-E-S-T-E-C-P!

[no_to_war_economy]

33. paaleease tell me there is a video link somewhere

cant think of a better way to start my day, I would love to see that clip

[imenja]

34. I bet he'll use it on his HBO show n/t

[BlueEyedSon]

36. In Texas, they would have made him King of the Rodeo

or whatever they do....

[Zynx]

37. I don't actually find this funny

Maybe the delivery was comedic (somehow), but this doesn't seem like funny stuff. It seems like he was just spewing offensive shit.

[Montanan]

40. The Iraq war ISN'T funny...

...that's why what "Borat" said was right on. Cohen has nerve, that's for sure.

[jdj]

112. unfortunately, it's possible they got pissed when he mangled "da Banner"

remember how the jockstraps got so pissed at Roseanne when she screeched it at that baseball game?

The rest they probably agreed with.

[Tafiti]

68. It doesn't do the show justice explaining it with words.

It's definitely something you just have to see for yourself. Sometimes it can, perhaps, be offensive to some. As far as the "interviews" go, it's really not much different than what the Daily Show does on their interview segments. Just pulling off some humor over unsuspecting, sincere interviewees.

[Strawman]

87. Reminded me of Andy Kaufman wrestling in Memphis

I think ridiculous characters like that are funny.

[theboss]

97. I'm not one to look for the point in humor

I mean, I still think fart jokes are funny.

But I'm really not sure what the objective with this kind of stuff is. I guess he is filming it for use at a later time, but I never got the point of completely infuriating an audience unless there is a payoff. Kaufman got dangerously close to that line sometimes, but at least in Memphis, there was a payoff - Jerry Lawler beating him in the ring. But when it left the ring, it just confused audiences. The Letterman appearance is rightly famous, but to this day, I don't understand what Kaufman and Lawler were doing.

[bunny planet]

91. It's called satire and it's not always pretty. He's trying to expose these

people for the bigots many of them are, it's definitely offensive, but it's supposed to be as harsh as the behavior that prompted it in the first place.

[wicket]

39. Fox News has picked this up:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144083,00.html

[ernstbass]

43. I have a friend who took his kids to this rodeo

and he said that the looks of disbelief on the faces of the right wing crowd were priceless. The crowd apparently became very hostile and the HBO gang had to beat a quick retreat. Salem VA is all about God and football and ignorance!(except for a few of us enlightened souls!)

[wicket]

55. LOL! That's awesome

Please tell me he has pictures!!!

[NJGeek]

44. I LIKE!!!!

LOVE IT.

[redqueen]

48. I can't believe I still haven't seen his show.

This guy's hilarious!

[kerrywins]

50. when he speaks to someone

as himself...its very boring...only the borat stuff is entertaining

[Goldmund]

58. As himself?

He never does.

[kerrywins]

77. you know...with the glasses and all that....

just as ali g with the ghetto, british accent....
that part is boring....

[Goldmund]

51. This is my all-time favorite TV show, hands down.

He is a complete genius.

[BikeWriter]

52. He could get lynched here in Texas.

No shit.

[patcox2]

54. He went to Texas and got a bar full of people to sing "Kill the jews"

No shit, the same character, Borat, is playing guitar and singing in a Texas bar, he starts singing a song about hating the jews, lets throw them all down the well, and gets the whole bar stomping and singing along. Hilarious.

[Goldmund]

57. That was actualy in Tucson, Arizona.

[Cooley Hurd]

71. Here's the clip:

http://www.campchaos.com/show.php?iID=866

WAY funny!:D:thumbsup:

[jdj]

113. part of me is laughing.

the other part is crying.

this is heartbreaking.

really.

makes me want to launch into a verse of

"throw the redneck down the well..."

[Beetwasher]

56. It's BORAT Not Ali G, And This Is Friggin' HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!

Two different characters played by the same guy...He RULES!!!!

[ronnykmarshall]

59. He's HOT!

[wicket]

74. he certainly is!

His bare ass is in the opening credits of every show *drool*

hehehehehe :D

[Zuni]

92. That is a stunt butt (no joke)

on the HBO Season One Box set he does commentary over an episode with his producer, dan Mazer and says that it is a stunt butt, a model's and not his own.

[wicket]

117. dammit!

;)

[Taverner]

60. OMG I fell out of my chair laughing

I watch AliG all the time, and the man is a genius...

Imagine Michael Moore + Tom Green with a side of Education and more cajones...

[bunny planet]

95. My whole family loves this show, we all do Borat impressions in

conversations sometimes. Hysterical show!!!!

[Kire]

61. the Ali G conundrum

the more publicity he gets like this, the less he is going to be able to get new interviews; but, I guess that's part of the fun. The stakes get raised every day.

[dean_dem]

62. Oh man, I just spit on my keyboard.

Ali G is friggin brilliant.

EDIT: You can see the fallout on the Roanoke Times Messageboard. Apparently some get the joke, while others don't. One person even says they agree with him.

http://messageboards.roanoke.com/webx?[e-mail]7aA0YeZe.0@.1ad4afc3/0

[wicket]

72. bwahahaha that link is precious

:D

[warrens]

81. OK, that did it

I just had my DSL fee cut in half. I'm getting satellite, if only for Ali G and Jon Stewart. My five years of cablelessness will end this month.

[bunny planet]

96. You can get the first season on DVD but it's not as good as the second

season. He was just getting a feel for the characters in the US setting 1st season. 2nd season should be out soon. It is priceless. Borat is the best character of the three, by far the most wicked skewering is done by his character.

[Hobarticus]

65. Think you have to know his brand of humor to appreciate this....

Otherwise, it could cause some shock to the uninitiated!

[ceile]

66. I love Ali G!!

[swimmernsecretsea]

75. I love Ali G too!

It took me a bit to "get" him, but now when I watch his show I can't stop laughing.

[Maddy McCall]

69. I can't WAIT for his new season, to see this. This guy is a genius.,

Long live Borat! He rubs prejudice in the face of the bigots. Gotta love him for that!!

[Zuni]

93. Borat is one of the funniest TV characters ever created

"what happens if a jew attacks you with his claw?"

[bunny planet]

98. I love that bit, with the karate instructor. Pure genius, no lie.

[parasim]

73. An Ali G Treasure Trove here

Glad to see so many Ali G/Borat/Bruno fans. Check out this guys's site, you're sure to dig it if you dig Cohen:

click on the Ali G section:
http://www.lando.co.uk/

The "Ali G : Before he was massiv" video gives a good background of Cohen's work.


Booyakasha!

[wicket]

79. Great link, thanks!

:kick:

[ibegurpard]

76. OMG! That guy is hilarious!

Ever watched his show? I don't know how he keeps finding people who aren't aware of his schtick.

[JanMichael]

78. That boy has balls as big as church bells!

Damn.

PS~ What movie did I just quote?

[bunny planet]

99. He almost got beat up once before by some redneck in a Home Depot

setting. He was interviewing him as Bruno, the guy was being all friendly and nice until Bruno revealed the 'show' he was interviewing him for was a gay TV show. The guy then immediately started becoming very threatening and menacing and Bruno became Sasha very quickly and backed off. He knew he was gonna get whooped if he didn't. It was cringingly funny but more uncomfortable. Wonder if the rodeo footage will even make it to the show, or if it will be similarly uncomfortable if it does. When the people go along with it, like they did with 'throw the jew down the well', it is hysterical with creepy overtones, but when they turn mean right away, .....who knows if it will be funny. Probably. I always laugh hysterically during the show, but upon reflection when I realize that these bigots are out there in numbers, it is really scary to contemplate. I think that's the dual purpose of the show, and satire in general I suppose.

[wicket]

80. kick

:kick:

[smedwed]

82. LOL

Borat's one of the funniest things on tv at the minute.
Can't wait till i see this

[Zuni]

83. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Sasha Baron Cohen is the funniest guy on TV, bar none.

[theboss]

94. I really never got this type of humor

I love the Ali G character just because it is so absurd to see him talking to Koffi Anan. But I've never gotten the vein of comedy which desires to infuriate the audience. It's probably why I've never fully understood Andy Kaufman either - paricularly the wrestling stuff.

[Zuni]

103. It wasn't Kofi, it was Boutros Boutros Boutros Ghali

[Az]

106. Two audiences

The audience he is performing before are the targets. He extracts their hatred and reduces them to a ridiculous state by this means. He films it or it would be a pointless exercise. Their displays of hatred and bogotry are the display. They are to be ridiculed and exposed.

[theboss]

107. But why?

In the right setting, anyone can be reduced to a pretty ridiculous display of bigotry. Put me at a football game with a few beers inside me and you could probably pull a lot of nasty stuff out of me with the right prodding? We all have dark sides.

[bunny planet]

100. Respeck.

Kick this thread!
:kick:

[maveric]

101. He was Bruno, the gay, Austrian, in a speedo, at a U of Alabama football

game.
He was cheerleading in front of 90,000 rabid rednecks looking and acting as stereotypically gay as one could be. You should have heard the hateful comments the freepers were screaming at him.
It was classic!

[Zuni]

104. or when he went to the FReeper rally afterwards

when that guy was like "I want to keep the government out of my pocket, the jew out of my pocket..." and "you don't have to be such a damn fag.."

[Az]

102. This reminds me of Mark Twain's War Prayer

"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle – be Thou near them! With them – in spirit – we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with hurricanes of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it – for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."
- Mark Twain

[deutsey]

108. It makes me wonder what the idiots running the rodeo were thinking

If Ali G was putting them on, good for him.

[mr_hat]

110. He did something similar at a minor league ballpark. >

Sang the Star Spangled Bannner (poorly, to scattered applause) then, just as everyone was ready to sit and play ball, launched into the double-album-with-extended-drum-solo version of the Khazakstan national anthem.

Painful jibberish, of course. People just stood and stood and stood... God.

[FredScuttle]

114. "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards."

That might be my new favorite line of his. The other one is when he interviewed astronaut Buzz Aldrin as Ali G:

ALI G: When you went to da moon, was da moon people friendly, or did they scare you?

ALDRIN: We had no hopes of finding any life there whatsoever.

ALI G: When is man going to walk on de sun?

ALDRIN: It's much too hot on the sun; we can never go there.

ALI G: We could go in de winter, when it's colder.

[Piperay]

115. Sure took guts

to do that bit in front of a rodeo crowd, they could've killed him.