Ali G. is the proto-typical 'whigger,' (a white pretending he is an inner-city black gangster type): tough and swaggering. He is also a comic creation of Sacha Baron Cohen. The comedian mocks society by playing this part to a tee and enjoying the fact that no one is brave enough to call him on it. But, one great culturist did: the late American editorialist, Andy Rooney.
The heroic culturist moment starts when Ali G asks Rooney, "Does you think the media has changed since you first got in it?" Rooney corrects him, "'Does you think the media has changed?' Do you think the media has changed?" Rooney confronts this Ebonics bastardization of our language head-on, insisting on adherence to basic rules of English grammar.
When Ali G. attributes the linguistic error to a difference between the British and American vernacular, Rooney snidely refutes his attempt at relativism saying, "The English language is very clear. I have fifty books on the English language if you'd like to borrow one." Rather than pander or ignore Ali G's destruction of language, Rooney refutes and rejects it, saying, "I can't waste my time."
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Ali G/Sasha Baron Cohen is a Culturist. That is precisely the reason he chose the targets for his humor that he chose.
I think Borat created nervous laughter cause it was soooooo true.
Thanks, JP
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