"Da Ali G Show" (2003) TV series 2003-2004

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

21 February 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Talk-Show

Plot:

An ignorant, wannabe-Jamaican British b-boy; an anti-Semitic, misogynistic but friendly Kazakhstani...

Plot Keywords:

Interview | British | Television | Satire | Spoof

Awards:

Nominated for 6 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Sacha Baron Cohen

...

Ali G / ... (12 episodes, 2003-2004)

Series Directed by
James Bobin		(11 episodes, 2003-2004)
Dan Mazer		(6 episodes, 2003)
Scott Preston		(6 episodes, 2003)

Series Writing credits
Sacha Baron Cohen		(12 episodes, 2003-2004)
James Bobin		(12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Jamie Glassman		(12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Anthony Hines		(12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Dan Mazer		(12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Jeff Stilson		(12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Ethan T. Berlin		(6 episodes, 2003)
Tommy Blacha		(6 episodes, 2003)
Craig DiGregorio		(6 episodes, 2003)
David Eilenberg		(6 episodes, 2003)
Ed Herbstman		(6 episodes, 2003)
Michael O'Rourke		(6 episodes, 2003)
Craig Thomas		(6 episodes, 2003)
Rich Dahm		(6 episodes, 2004)
Evan Goldberg		(6 episodes, 2004)
Seth Rogen		(6 episodes, 2004)
Jon Vitti		(4 episodes, 2004)

Series Produced by
Sacha Baron Cohen	....	executive producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Kathy Egan	....	associate producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Peter Fincham	....	executive producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Beatrice Gay	....	line producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Emma Glassar	....	associate producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Ben Karlin	....	consulting producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Adam King	....	associate producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Alf Lawrie	....	associate producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Dan Mazer	....	series producer (6 episodes, 2003)
Jeff Stilson	....	supervising producer (6 episodes, 2004)
Jenny Hunter	....	field producer (unknown episodes)
Erin O'Malley	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Will Reiser	....	associate producer (unknown episodes)

Series Original Music by
Erran Baron Cohen		(6 episodes, 2003)

Series Cinematography by
Andy Hollis		(2 episodes, 2004)
Sam Henriques		(unknown episodes)

Series Film Editing by
James M. Thomas		(12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Charlie Fawcett		(5 episodes, 2003)

Series Casting by
Sarah Crowe		(unknown episodes)

Series Production Design by
Jonathan Paul Green		(unknown episodes)

Series Costume Design by
Jason Alper		(6 episodes, 2003)

Series Production Management
Bronwen Epstein	....	production manager (unknown episodes)
Jade C. Mills	....	production manager (unknown episodes)

Series Sound Department
Eli Perl	....	sound re-recording mixer (12 episodes, 2003-2004)
Todd Johnson	....	location sound recordist (7 episodes, 2003-2004)
Kelly Duda	....	sound recordist (3 episodes, 2004)
Doug Madick	....	foley artist (unknown episodes)
Austin Storms	....	sound mixer (unknown episodes)

Series Special Effects by
Neil Ruddy	....	special effects (unknown episodes)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Peter Scheer	....	camera operator / location camera operator (3 episodes, 2003)

Series Editorial Department
David Ashcroft	....	assistant editor (6 episodes, 2004)
Dicky Everton	....	on-line editor (6 episodes, 2004)
James M. Thomas	....	senior editor (unknown episodes)

Series Transportation Department
J. Christian Walsh	....	driver (6 episodes, 2003)

Series Other crew
James Bobin	....	location director (6 episodes, 2003)
Dan Mazer	....	location director (6 episodes, 2003)
Andrew Newman	....	creative consultant (6 episodes, 2003)
Eric Becker	....	production assistant (2 episodes, 2004)
Dean Anthony	....	production assistant (unknown episodes)
April Baker	....	production assistant (unknown episodes)
Charles de Bernier	....	accountant (unknown episodes)
Dimitri Lacey	....	production coordinator (unknown episodes)
Joanna MacDonnell	....	floor manager (unknown episodes)
Matthew Mishory	....	production assistant (unknown episodes)
Kyle Pennekamp	....	production assistant (unknown episodes)
Todd Schulman	....	assistant: Sacha Baron Cohen (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• Four by Two Films
• TalkBack Productions

Distributors

• Home Box Office (HBO) (2003) (USA) (TV)
• Home Box Office Home Video (HBO) (2004-) (USA) (DVD)
• Channel 4 Television Corporation
• Comedy Central (2007) (Netherlands) (TV)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Alabama, USA

Company:

Four by Two Films

Trivia:

According to Borat, he is the second most famous person in Kazhakistan. The first is Paul Shaffer.

Goofs:

Continuity: 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:

Borat:High five!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Cleveland Show: Your Show of Shows (#2.21)" (2011)

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....