You need to show your wife Ali G having Victoria and David Beckham as guests in Comic relief. Its hilarius

so he did season 1 in the UK but shortly after the show was so popular that everyone knew about him so going to the US he could get that authentic reaction again and honestly some of the best stuff was from that time

He fooled plenty of Brits before he became well known. It was why he started doing iti in the US.

"Sasha Bowen Cowen", - your British passport is being revoked, thank you for your services

Two Ali G must watches: - Ali G at the police academy - Ali G at the farm

It did work in the UK at first. The problem was though that we are a smaller country and he became really popular so people got wise to it more quickly. At first they played along but then people started to feel that even playing along to it was harming their public image and started refusing the interviews. To get around that, Sacha went to America where he was pretty much anonymous and even if a few politicians and scientists began to figure out it was a set up the country is big enough that he could find a new group or area where he was still relatively unknown. You're right too, he started on the 11 o'clock show on Channel 4 in the late 90's and then had his own show for a little while not long after. He then went on hiatus for a short bit once everyone in the UK figured him out before coming back a bit later with Ali G in America. He also did a more recent sketch show in about 2018 roughly on British and American TV (I think it was on Showtime) which was great too. That 2018 show "Who Is America?" was hilarious and I highly recommend checking it out. One of the highlights was him acting like a super-left wing town planner trying to give a presentation to a group of locals from a small town in the Bible Belt about the towns new project to build a super-mosque in the area.

For those that didn't know, that "old fella" is Buzz Aldrin. The man who followed Neil Armstrong out of the spacecraft to become the second person to walk on the moon.

The old guy who was talking about the moon was Buzz Aldrin 😂 his literally been to the moon

You can't get her to watch this without getting her to see him with The Beckhams! It made me cry laughing!

I still feel the trauma of high school when every teenage boy would snap their fingers in your face screaming 'booyakasha'. Ali is so funny though

I honestly forgot how funny Ali G was! I'm in stitches!!!

Ali G did a good job interviewing Brits at the start, in 1998, in The 11 oClock Show, which also kicked off the comedy career of Ricky Gervais.

Well to be fair, he started in the UK as a “correspondent” on the 11 o’clock show in the 90’s. So it definitely did work there. Probably a combination of him being too well known there and moving to HBO is why it’s mostly Americans

Nice chill atmosphere you two have, great chemistry. New sub here🇬🇧👊🏻

The show had one of the most iconic opening sequences ever!

The 'old fella' is buzz Aldrin who landed on the moon.the funniest part of the interview at the end is ali calls him buzz lightyear😂

Ali G “Science” and “War” are my personal favorites. They never get old lol.

"you picked the wrong cop to f*ck around with slimeball" "Ok, we don't actually talk like that..."

'EER MEH NAH!"......me & me Julie 🤣🤣🤣 Ali G - the original troll! LEGEND.

I haven’t laughed so much in such a long time 😂

The expressions of guy with the glasses on the Homo-sapiens segment always get's me!🤣

Ali G was just ridiculous......and I loved it!

He started off in the UK mate (plenty of his stuff on here, classics like bowling, and British etiquette etc) he had to resort to the US after everyone cottoned on...He started life on the 11 o'clock show. (as did Ricky Gervais) P.S Brits have fallen for this kind of humour for ages Take Jeremy Beadle for instance (game For a Laugh) or the infamous 'Cake' episode which got loads of famous celebrities duped (Brass Eye)

Ali G was brilliant, great reaction

The balls it takes to ask the second man to walk on the moon if he thinks the moon exists XD

A limey, a septic and the Staines massive, thanks guys

More of this please

Shout out west staines massive 😂

My condolences with the mariage ! (the misses don't read the comments i hope) and looking forward to more content. Greetings from Belgium

You tell her she doesn't know who she's talking about then you completely butcher his name😂

The point of Ali g is the character is from Staines, a posh town slightly outside of London but he tries to talk like a kid from the inner city (unsuccessfully) because he wants to sound cool. Essentially Britains equivalent to a ‘wigger’ it’s mocking the kids pretending to be from rough areas, not the kids from the rough areas themselves

Sorry but it was so funny when you said "you dont know who he is" then called him Sacha bowen cohen 😂😂

His first years were in the uk. It worked with anyone who didnt know who he was as people are extra polite on telly

Her first answer was totally okay, Sacha Baron Cohen WAS impersonated Ali G!

The Brothers Grimsby - Hiding in an elephant scene is the funniest shit I have ever seen in a movie

Aaaahhh i miss Ali G‼️ ABSOLUTELY NOBODY can beat British comedy. Ha 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤😁😆😆😆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The old guy he was interviewing about the sun and the moon, is Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon.

a mate gave me a cassette tape of Ali G's first interviews. inclucing the classic one with the English educator/ politician when Ali asks him if kids should be cained in school. i think it was before it was releassd on tv. that was 1997/98. i feel priveladged to have had that tape. i doubt many people had one. also... big up from York! :)

Love Ali G.

he is such a genius how he does what he does soo funny i love his character Ali - G

Gore Vidal just effortlessly rolled with it

As an American who deals with Americans everyday I can say the reason why Americans have such a hard time picking up on humor is because most Americans are caught up in themselves and can't see the humor in anything. We have some of the funniest comedians but we rather cancel them instead of letting them speak their mind. Everyone is caught up in being woke and progressive and don't realize the damage they're causing for future generations. Society is basically trying to turn us into robots

Need to watch both Borat films in their entirety. So many good bits in both

The old fella was Buzz Aldrin. Ali was this close to getting punched in the nose by an old school badass legend.

Love Ali G, genius

3:34 … he didn’t know he was predicting the future 🤣 this skit is how people are today.

He has a movie too called "Ali G in da house" which is 100% worth a watch its hilarious 😂

You both didn’t get the youth in Asia joke at first. That was funny.

The 'old fella' is Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon.

hey Fen and Akasha, you should watch his early stuff cause Ali g actually started off in the UK interviewing all the politicians before he went to the USA :) If you like his content you should watch the film he did called 'Ali g indahouse' funny AF

How patient were those scientists 😂

I remember watching this back in 98-99 -2000 😅😅😅😅

Yesss Ali G

Don't think are dumb, think, it's more he had a hit show , for a couple years in the U.K. Don't think people were falling for it. He was recognizable by then. That's why he started coming up with new characters, and filmed more in America. *Don't think " " are dumb. * (Americans, was in there) Fuckin autocorrect, I'm laughing at my own comment.

Ali G started with UK celebrities Once he got so famous here he had to go to America for fresh content, for celebrities who wouldn’t know who he was

The clip didn't include the bit where he asked Buzz Aldrin 'so you went to the moon with Louis Armstrong'

He wasn't from a council estate. The joke was that he was from wealthy Staines. Staines council famously renamed it to Staine upon Thames so people don't think it's "ghetto" (oh the irony).

Wait, you’re British, you’re of a certain age and this is the first time you’re seeing these clips? I’m shocked

Ali G makes me nostalgic.

You should watch the TV show, "Who Is America?", still starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Episode 2 in particular is hilarious!

as a brit, this reminds me of so many americans i have met over the years (in the UK). they are nice poeple (mostly........like everywhere on earth), but so easy to take the pish out of. The fact that they will not look him in the eye and call him out for what he is saying..............its just soooo american.

the thing that makes the interview at 8:48 a lot funnier is that the man that is being interviewed is buzz aldrin, who went to the moon

Dennis Pennis pre-dated Ali-G and did much the same. His classic was asking Demi Moore at a red carpet event “How much do you charge to keep your clothes on” at the premiere of Indecent Exposure. 😎😇

my husband is 13 years older than me and there's some things that i kinda remember seeing on tv that he remembers watching but the shows had all but come to an end by the time i was 3 or 4 and he was 16 / 17

😂😂😂😂 I m died crying of this compilation 🤣🤣🤣🤣 my stomach hurts!! 😭😭😭😭

A video worth watching is how they now use bees to find bombs instead of dogs.

The brits also fell for it. But he also did the show in USA after he became too well known in UK. Btw from what I remember he actually did his master thesis in regards to history.

Look te movie Ali g in the house 😂😂😂

I'd love to see a reaction to Philomena Cunk!

you really gotta show her that joint with David and Victoria Beckham

RESTECP :D and thanks for the czech flag ;)

What Ali G says is funny, but you gotta know who he is talking to. You referenced the " old fella " when Ali G was talking about the moon. Thats actually Buzz Aldrin that he's talking to. Not just anyone haha.

The British husband who at the start virtually accuses his own wife of being dumb, when in fact she knows more than him! 🤣 Way to go girl.

You should check out his 'This is America '

He did start duping English people but I think as more people became aware of him he needed some fresh victims! By then he'd developed the character more too, probably why you get more vids with Americans ;)

"the old fella" seriously!!!!

The old guy was Buzz Aldrin, he went with Neil Armstrong to the moon

The funny thing is that there are flat-earthers who do believe the moon doesn't exist but is merely a reflection of the sun upon a dome covering the Earth, and that therefore the moon landing never occurred. Sometimes truth is stranger than comedy.

Great guys, he did an interview on Jonathan Ross on you tube about his Ali G character explaining that the idea was to get the person he was interviewing to think he was really daft even before the camera started rolling. Like he said to this US senator when he was in the states "where is we?" the senator goes " The United states" & he went " that's good coz next month I is going to america".

Ali g was 1st on TV on ch4 late night "11 o'clock show" where he done weekly 5 minute slots late 1999

The second guy to talk to him about space is Buzz Aldrin. The guy who follow Amstrong down the ladder and thus the second man to set foot on the moon. Sasha Baron Cohen was playing with fire there. Buzz once punched a guy out who keept calling him a liar and that he never went to the moon. The whole thing was caught on camera.

Youth in Asia is such a good bit xD

Ali G was all UK stuff before his own show and his first series. He had to go to the US for his second series (Ali G in Da USA) because he became too well known in the UK

I heard a rumour that Sasha is bringing Ali G back. I hope it's true. I still watch his clips. Cracks me up.

Youth in Asia joke was written by Benny Hill back in the day

React to Ali G - in Wales Ali G - in da countryside

Actually a lot of people think that the space,the sun and the moon doesnt exist they call them self flatearthers

Mansplaing lesson right here

Big up to the Staines massive!

Ali G messed with Brits loads. He didnt just trick Americans

IIRC Ali G applied his schtick against fellow Brits as well as Yanks (and not just for Comic Relief). The same can be said for his wonderfully talented "The 11 O'Clock Show" colleague Daisy Donovan, whereby she once got sitting members of Parliament to weigh in on the value of having a good old "mass debate."

Fury will be back after his christmas day on thursday, and he's got easter in august 🎄

That 'Old Fella' :-). That was Buzz Aldrin.

Looking forward to Borat 😂❤. Andre is 😢

the 'old fella' is Buzz Aldrin

you should show her original AliG film, which,imho, started this character... bujakabujaka 😊

React to the movie. Hilarious from start to finish 👌🏻

Youth in Asia is hilarious 🤣

U should watch the ali g movie its so good

“Why is it always Americans?” - he was completely unknown to America - Americans are a diverse bunch, and we don’t know how many sub-cultures/co-cultures are in “England”, so the fact Ali may be an extreme caricature, our ignorance of your culture isn’t going to make that so obvious. - we speak English, so the communication is easier. He could do Argentina for instance, for the above 2 points, but then there would be the language barrier. So Americans are a great target for him. It’s not offensive - it just gives him a better chance of flying under the radar.