Posts with tag Da Ali G Show
Posted May 3rd 2008 9:06AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Do you love Tracey Ullman? Yeah, who doesn't? The lady's a riot. Showtime is so enamored of the Brit-com-queen that they've ordered a second season -- seven fresh episodes -- of
Tracey Ullman's State of the Union. The network has also lined up another English artist for 2009. Comedy star Marc Wootton is locked in for six episodes.
"I won't hold it against them that both are from the U.K.," laughed Showtime prez Robert Greenblatt. "Tracey Ullman is the veteran genius who continues to impress us with her versatility, while Marc Wootton is the up-and-comer who will surprise our audience with his own unique voice. This is an embarrassment of riches for us in the comedy department."
Continue reading Showtime likes the laughs, renews Tracey Ullman
Posted Nov 10th 2006 4:04PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, HBO, TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities
Remember the '90s, that golden age of the internet when hamsters danced, there were mullets galore, sexually ambiguous men dressed as Peter Pan, all our base were belong to somebody, and
a man from Turkey offered his lips to the online world? Those were good times. Now one of those long lost remnants of Web's past have returned, and we can thank Borat for it. It seems that Mahir Cagri of "I Kiss You!" internet fame feels that Borat, the character created by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for HBO's
Da Ali G Show, and the star of the new film,
Borat: Culture Leanings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, is based on him. In an e-mail and brief interview with
Wired, Cagri said he planned to seek legal action against Borat, and that "sometimes, I been no mustache." I think that goes to show that no matter how separated we are by geography, there are still some things that unite us all, for I have also never been a mustache.
Posted Nov 8th 2006 12:01PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, Web, Documentary
No doubt capitalizing on
Borat fever, CBS' broadband channel
Innertube is broadcasting the
full-length pilot episode of The Papdits created by
Da Ali G Show writer and producer Ant Hines. The show's
Borat-type premise follows the misadventures of a family from Kashmir as they interact with Americans while looking for the perfect place to settle and make their fortune. Their journey begins in Arkansas.
The show, again like
Borat, is a comedy/reality hybrid. You've got mockumentary, talking head shots like
The Office, but also scenes in which the actors are improvising off of unwitting American dupes.
The Papdits perpetuate that uncomfortable, cringe-inducing humor we've all come to know and love.
Continue reading Meet the Papdits
Posted Oct 31st 2006 9:00AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, HBO, TV on the Bigscreen, Celebrities
With the release of Borat this Friday to movie theaters around America, HBO wants to remind you that they were the ones who gave U.S. audiences a look at the lovable Sacha Baron Cohen character that appeared regularly on Da Ali G Show. So, with that in mind, the network is going to go Borat crazy over the next two weeks.
It will begin this upcoming Saturday when HBO airs all 12 episodes of Ali G not once, but twice. The run of episodes (I get tired of saying marathon because it really isn't) will begin at noon and end at 6:00 PM. Then, the network will air eight episodes on Monday (from 9:00 pm to 1:00 am) and four on Tuesday (8:00 pm to 10:00 pm). If you miss those episodes they will be available on HBO on Demand from November until late January.
One can hope that the media blitz on this new movie as well as the word on the street makes Borat the hit of the year in the theaters. We shall see come this Friday.
Posted Oct 7th 2006 1:58PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, HBO, Web, Celebrities
Cracked, in honor of the upcoming movie with the cumbersome but hilarious title of
Borat: Culture Leanings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, have selected their ten favorite Borat clips from HBO's
Da Ali G Show. I haven't had HBO in several years, so I was never able to watch
The Ali G Show, but thanks to this little site called YouTube I've seen several of Borat's appearances, and I'm convinced Sacha Baron Cohen is a comic genius. By hiding behind the facade of an out-of-his-element foreigner he's able to say some of the most outlandish and offensive things without getting the tar kicked out of him.
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