Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't clap!
Hope I get to see this ep.
'Ali G' Comedian Risks Riot at U.S. Rodeo
33 minutes ago
Entertainment - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen escaped a near-riot at an American rodeo while filming his satirical "Da Ali G Show."
According to a report in the Roanoke (North Carolina) Times, a man who was introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan -- in reality a Cohen character named Borat -- appeared at the rodeo over the weekend after organizers agreed to have him sing the national anthem.
After telling the crowd he supported America's war on terrorism, he said, "I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq (news - web sites), down to the lizards ... And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq." He then sang a garbled version of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
The Roanoke Times reported that the crowd turned "downright nasty." One observer said "If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him."
Cohen and his film crew were escorted out of the Salem Civic Center and told to leave the premises.
"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," rodeo producer Bobby Rowe told the paper. "They loaded up the van and they screeched out of there."
It is not the first time Cohen has wooed controversy with his show, which airs on Channel 4 in the UK and on HBO in the United States. In one episode last year, Borat sang an anti-Semitic song called "Throw the Jew Down the Well" at a U.S. country music bar, prompting protests from the U.S-based Anti-Defamation League.
Producers of the Ali G show, Talkback Thames, were unavailable for comment.
7 Comments:
Oh man, that is too funny. I would love to see that. You really have to understand that what he's doing is satire, to really get this. But I don't think the crowd at a rodeo is the audience most likely to receieve this that well...which makes the whole stunt even funner.
12:15 PM
I probably would have shot him...
7:49 PM
I have watched exactly one show of his and didn't laugh once. It's obvious he wasn't warned of what happened to Rosanne Barr when she mangled the National Anthem.
I like satire, I just don't find him funny.
6:16 AM
Ali G is da bomb!
7:50 AM
I watched that one where he sang "Throw the jew down the well". The audience was singing along.
12:36 PM
Jew down the well? I don't get it.
12:03 AM
Here's a clip of it.
http://www.campchaos.com/show.php?iID=866
12:05 AM
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