Gothamist: Innit Ali G? For Real!

froggerchanovsky

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:07:23 -0500

Borat is gonna be an awesome movie. I love looking back at these comments after the movie has beeen announced and is being promoted. It confirms that when I see it, it'll be mostly (if not entirely) genuine society reaction.

Borat's Friend

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 07:31:57 -0500

Nice Ali G article in today's Times: http://nytimes.com/2005/07/23/arts/television/23ali.html

tiddles

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:13:59 -0500

A few months ago, he (as Borat) showed up near my college, in a neighboring town. It's really country, but people still recognized him. There were even news articles about it. http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/16655.html Go hokies. he's getting noticed in NYC AND in Salem, VA... he's got to come up with new, unknown characters. Preferable ones that still have awkward male kissing attempts ala borak.

Marcus

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:41:27 -0500

My partner also saw Borat pushing a Gondola around Central Park Lake, confusing the asian tourists (or actors playing confused asian tourists) who were riding in his boat.

dirt

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:00:51 -0500

Great idea!

Christina

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:58:02 -0500

Well, it's an unusual choice, but I show it when I teach humor and satire in Composition/Rhetoric because he's so good at getting people to satirize themselves--especially as Borat. And it makes for a nice end-of-semetser wind-down, on those last few days when none of us feel like learning or teaching.

dirt

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:25:34 -0500

Christina> Interesting; would have thought he was more popular. So perhaps he will get some good skits here. Last season's were quite amusing; especially being out in Middle America somewhere. By the way, I'm curious, in what capacity (in other words what educational purpose) are you showing this?

Christina

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:08:15 -0500

Actually, dirt, I show Da Ali G Show to my students (Freshmen at a NYC University) every semester, and only a handful of them ever had heard of him previously, so I'd bet the vast majority of people still don't know him on sight.

carpeicthus

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:06:16 -0500

Wow, that's a pleasant surprise! One correction, it's "Brenizer."

NY'er

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:05:24 -0500

I nearly ran him over with my bike in Central Park. He was standing in the the middle of the street dressed as Borat with an ice cream cone - he was out there for a while, I think he was hoping he would have a run in with someone, but I think the camera crew in the bushes gave him away.

dirt

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:02:55 -0500

I'm suprised he's even in NYC. Would figure the distant countryside would fare better for his skits, which excel with an oblivious audience. But then again, many Manhattanites are clueless. I look forward to seeing the fruits of his labor.

jon

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:45:43 -0500

In Boston if we "see something" we "say something"...or at least that's the MBTA's charge to riders trying to get us plebeians to do the work of the T police. Anyway...it makes me wonder how his entorage with ticking, humming, filming briefcases got on the trians...isn't taking pictures in the subway against MTA policy. Maybe they just got a permit or somthing.

Rina

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:34:08 -0500

My best friend Merisa sent me this on June 22nd: You will not believe who I saw yesterday on the Subway platform. Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed in full character as Borat. Mustache, curly hair, the grey suit. It was AWESOME. I am so happy. He was with a bunch of guys, presumably his producers, etc. I smiled in their direction because I was so excited, and they kinda whispered among themselves. No one else seemed to recognize him, and I didn't want to blow up his spot. One of his guys kinda circled past me and winked, and I smiled back. I didn't approach him. But it did make my life.