Da Ali G Show

Da Ali G Show
Also known as
  • Ali G in da USAiii (series 2)
  • Ali G: Rezurection (FXX broadcasts)
  • Da Ali G Show Remixed (Stan streaming)
GenreSatire
Created bySacha Baron Cohen
StarringSacha Baron Cohen
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series3
No. of episodes18 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time30 minutes
Production companyTalkback
Original release
Network
Release30 March 2000 (2000-03-30) –
22 August 2004 (2004-08-22)
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Da Ali G Show is an English satirical sketch comedy television series created by and starring English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. In the series, Baron Cohen plays three unorthodox journalists: faux-streetwise poseur Ali G, Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev, and gay Austrian fashion enthusiast Brüno Gehard. These characters conduct real interviews with unsuspecting people, many of whom are celebrities, high-ranking government officials, and other well-known figures, during which they are asked absurd and ridiculous questions.

The first (2000) series originally aired on Channel 4 in the UK, and the second and third (2003–2004) series on HBO in the United States. The second series was known as Ali G in da USAiii in the UK and Australia.[1] In 2005, HBO stated they had no plans to make an additional series of the show.[2]

Baron Cohen has gone on to make four films featuring each of his three characters from the show: Ali G Indahouse (2002), Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Brüno (2009) and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020).

In 2014, FXX reaired the show (including episodes unaired in the United States) under the branding Ali G: Rezurection.[3]

  1. ^ ""Da Ali G Show" (2003)". www.imdb.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2008.
  2. ^ Topcik, Joel (23 July 2005). "For Ali G, More Fame But Fewer Dupes". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  3. ^ "Sacha Baron Cohen Signs First-Look Deal With FX, 'Da Ali G Show' to Air on FXX". Hollywood Reporter. 1 November 2013. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2014.