Hovind on Ali G

[brightlights]

This post is irrelevant, but funny nonetheless.

I saw a group interview on Da Ali G show that Kent Hovind was a part of. It shocked me -- I did not think he was that prominent of a figure. I mean, once you're on Ali G you're golden.

 

[Bushido216]

Who's Ali G?

 

[trunks2k]

Who's Ali G?

Ali G is a character created by a British performer (I forgot his real name). Ali G a comical spin on gangster rap culture. "Ali G" has/had his own show where he just interviews different people about different things, and he just asks a lot of strange or stupid questions with a straight face. For example he's being taught proper etiquette by some high-class british couple and they sit down for a real, fancy dinner, and he makes a whole bunch of rude comments. It's kinda hard to explain without having seen it. What's so funny is that the character is supposed to be this stereotypical black rapper type of guy, but the actor who plays him is some Jewish kid from northern London. It's even funnier when his guests don't realize that Ali G isn't a real person.

He also has another character, "Borat" who is an immigrant from Eastern Europe. "Borat" does similar stuff to Ali G except with a different persona. For example, "Borat" attends a protest against fox hunting and is interviewing the people protesting there. A paraphrased conversation:

"In my country, we no hunt fox"
-"That's good"
"We hunt bear"
-"What?!"
"Well, we did until I killed the last one."
*horrified look on protester's face*

Go to
http://www.jump-around.com/features/ali-g/
to get an idea of what Ali-G is like. Though most of the quotes don't make much sense without knowing the context.

 

[Aeschylus]

Ali G is a an upper-middle class Jewish man pretending to be a working class asian (Asian in the UK usually means someone whose ancestors came from the Indian subcontinent) kid pretending to be a black rapper! He claims to be a member of 'Da Westside Massive' in Staines (Staines is a small, affluent but very boring town near London, infact it's actually the same part of the world I lived in).

I'm quite suprised that people in the US 'get' him when I first saw him I didn't think asnyone outside of the Home Counties would be able top understand his jokes (esepcially when he tells jokes that so obscure they reference the John Nike leisure centre in Bracknell, which was one of my favourite places to go when I was younger).

 

[Hydra009]

What happened in the group interview with Hovind? What was the interview about?

 

[Moo]

I've watched Ali G since his slot on "The 11 O’Clock Show", although I haven't seen much of him recently since he started doing his USA series.

I think his first video, Ali G - Aiii, was his best, some of the material in that was amazing, although I agree it's hard to convey the humour in text, especially the Borat bits.

I'm sure I have that dvd somewhere, gonna go watch it again...

 

[Moo]

What happened in the group interview with Hovind? What was the interview about?

I've just watched the interview again, here's a quick transcript of the bit about evolution:

(all Ali G's grammer mistakes are on purpose, it's just the way he speaks.)
_________________________________________

Ali G - Where did men come from?

Dr Joseph Coates - Men evolved out of lower species, in the way that all the species evolved out of lower species.

Kent Hovind - This is ridiculous, this is ludicrous. If he wants to believe this happened, he's welcome to believe his grandpa was Lucy and came down from a tree or something, but that is pure religion. We offer a quarter of a million dollers for anybody with any real, empirical, testable scientific evidence for evolution.

Ali G - So are you saying we ain't come down from monkeys?

Kent Hovind - No, monkeys are still having babies, why don't they have a another human today?

Ali G - Ok, has you ever eaten a banana?

Kent Hovind - Oh yeah, I eat all kinds of food...
....
Kent Hovind - I eat a banana, that's proof we came from a rock?

Ali G - Yeah...

Kent Hovind - (laughs) That's not proof of evolution

Dr Joseph Coates - The people who engage in this kind of nonsense always set up the rules so you could never win the money.

Ali G - But the banana thing got him, innit?

Kent Hovind - It didn't get me at all....

Ali G - But he had to start going "Na, na, na, na". (looks at Hovind). Coz you started going red when I said that...

Kent Hovind - Think logically for a second...

Ali G - Like you thought "Oh ****! I just got it..."

Kent Hovind - I thought no such thing...

Ali G - Then why did you start going "Oh", he went red, innit?

Kent Hovind - No, because I'm surprised at how illogical you question was.

Ali G - Yo, speak to the hand coz the face ain't listening y'all.

_________________________________________


there was a great bit after that where Ali G accused Hovind of not flushing backstage, the look on Hovind's face was priceless! You can grab the clip on IG's site if you're a gold member.

 

[Silent Bob]

I just watched the show you speak of so here is a brief description.

Ali asked where did men come from?

So some Dr something started talking about common ancestry.

Kent replied that this is rediculous and offered his evidence... "If he wants to belive that his grandpa came down from a tree or something, that is pure religion."

Then he spoke about his 250.000 bucks bet and toped it off with amazing evidence: Monkeys are still having babies why don't they have another human today?

Ali then asked him: Has you ever eaten a banana?
Kent: Yeah I eat all kinds of fruit
Ali silently kept nodding.
Kent: I ate a banana that is proof of evolution?
Ali: Yeah that's proof

The other guy jumped in and spoke about the 1/4 mil bet being imposible to win.

Ali went: But the banana thing got him didn't it?
Kent No it didn't...
Ali Cause you started going red when I said that... like you thought oh ****
Kent still complaining. Ali: No he went red didn't?
Kent: I was suprised by how illogical your question was...
Ali: Speak to the hand cause the face aint listening man.


A rough transcript. Anyone want to see it is named "Da Ali G Show USA 05 science" you might find it in a p2p sharing network mine was a wmv file. Btw it is taped from the tv or something so I don't think that copyright should be a problem.

 

[Silent Bob]

LOL you posted while I was typing.

Well whateveh.

 

[Hydra009]

That interview is hilarious.

 

[AlecEiffel]

Sasha Baron Cohen is his real name I believe. I saw the Hovind interview awhile ago...its priceless. You really have to see it, its too good for words.

 

[LifeToTheFullest!]

Somebody link or post it.

 

[larry lunchpail]

yeah that was a great one! makes me want to rent them again. i think you can get it here http://www.lando.co.uk/

 

[HRE]

Linky:
http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/M.N.Lansley/us-ali05.jpg

 

[Hydra009]

yeah that was a great one! makes me want to rent them again. i think you can get it here http://www.lando.co.uk/

These are password protected.

 

[Travis St. Hubbins]

The password is www.lando.co.uk

 

[AlecEiffel]

There are episodes on Kazaa/limewire/whatever p2p progam you use. I saw the hovind one on there before. It's worth a shot.

 

[Hydra009]

I just saw the Ali G video, and it was hilarious. When he accussed Hovind of leaving a "floater" was by far the funniest thing I've seen for quite a while. The look on Hovind's face was priceless.

 

[Arnold_Philips]

Haha, yeah. When he draws out the whole insinuating that he didn't flush the toilet thing.

"I ain't pointin any fingers, but I does have my suspicions."

They also get wrapped in the the "homo" part of homo sapien.

 

[Lonniebiz]

See this video for some of Kent Hovind's comments about being on the Ali G show:

The topic is discuss at 19:20 in the video.