EPISODE
SEASON
Da Ali G Show - Season 1
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen appears as Ali G, a rapper-wannabe from Staines. Ali G has his own TV show, where he interviews people on serious subjects. They're not aware that Ali G is just a character and they're being set up as part of a comedy act. Cohen also appears in two other guises: as Borat, a Kazakhstani reporter, and Bruno, a gay Austrian fashionista. Hilarity ensues.
1956, London, England, UK
5 November 1970, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
1971, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
14 October 1916, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
November 12, 1962 in San Francisco, California, USA
8 March 1976, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
17 February 1981, New York City, New York, USA
December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California, USA
May 20, 1924 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
16 August 1967, Los Angeles County, California, USA
November 14, 1922 in Cairo, Egypt
July 26, 1941 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
25 February 1935, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
March 11, 1939 in Greenwich, London, England, UK
8 November 1975, Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA
November 24, 1942 in Salinas, Kansas, USA
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
1924, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
June 13, 2018
It's the interaction Cohen's Ali and other characters have with regular people and figures of importance that makes this an edgy, silly riot.
June 13, 2018
The funniest thing about that talk part (or the unfunniest, more likely, to anyone trapped in Ali G's interview lair) is that only the host knows for sure that it's all a big put-on. How he gets them to come on is the mystery.
June 14, 2018
[Ali G is] one of the most rip-roaringly funny TV characters ever to come out of Britain.
June 13, 2018
Borat Saddiyev, obliviously embarking on a discovery of American customs, is by far Cohen's most endearing, and ultimately kindest, character.
June 13, 2018
Da Ali G Show turns American luminaries into stooges, but Cohen disappears so effectively into his characters that it's easy to see how they get duped.
June 14, 2018
What Cohen's characters lack in originality, they make up for in execution.
June 13, 2018
There's no question that Sacha Baron Cohen is talented... But the concept is hardly original to an American audience and, unfortunately, plays well under the acceptable level of greatness we've all come to expect from HBO.
June 13, 2018
Technically, the show appears ready for public access TV.
June 13, 2018
The banter is always fresh and entertaining, and Baron Cohen is a master of manipulating the interview.
June 14, 2018
The funniest thing about the show is that people think he's legit in every single persona.
June 13, 2018
The best part of the show is the talented, Andy Kaufman-like star, who never breaks character while engaging in real-life dialogue about current events.
June 14, 2018
Cohen's skill at improvisation isn't just impressive, it's mind-boggling, and the best moments in the show come when he's building off some bit of information he's just stumbled on.
