January 15, 200521 yr Ali G skit infuriates Virginia rodeo crowd Michael Slezak Note to comedians playing U.S. sporting venues: Mess with the ''Star Spangled Banner'' at your own peril. Sasha Baron Cohen, star of HBO's Da Ali G Show, found that out the hard way when — apparently in character as cluelessly bigoted Borat, the TV host from Kazakhstan — he delivered a wretched rendition of the national anthem, People magazine reports. According to the Roanoke Times, a man believed to be Cohen got the anger flowing by telling the crowd of 4,000, ''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.'' By the time he finished the anthem with the line ''home in the grave,'' the crowd had turned ''downright nasty.'' ''If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him,'' said Robynn James, a local radio host who was in the audience. ''Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot,'' rodeo producer Bobby Rowe added. ''They loaded up the van and they screeched out of there.'' While Rowe said he realized he had been hoaxed, and while some crowd members said they recognized Cohen, no one has definitively confirmed Ali G was indeed in da house. An HBO spokesperson could not be reached in time for comment.
January 15, 200521 yr That's cutting edge. No one has ever done that before. I expected so much more if it was Ali G. Some of his skits are downright hilarious. Why would he tap this well?
January 15, 200521 yr QUOTE(CubKilla @ Jan 14, 2005 -> 07:20 PM) That's cutting edge. No one has ever done that before. I expected so much more if it was Ali G. Some of his skits are downright hilarious. Why would he tap this well? But it is pretty Borat like. But I noticed that his really inflammatory Borat at some picnic thing last year wasn't actually aired, but it was in the extra s*** section of the dvd...
January 15, 200521 yr I'm surprised the US isn't bored with Ali G/Borat yet. People over here thought he was funny for a while, and then finally realised exactly what his comedy is........ s***. That's why he left the country - nobody found him funny anymore.
January 15, 200521 yr The one where he goes to a baseball game and 'Throw the Jew Down The Well' are classic
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