In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Originally appearing on Channel 4's The 11 O ' Clock Show, as the title character of Channel 4's Da Ali G Show in 2000 and on HBO in 2003 – 2004, he is also the title character of the film Ali G Indahouse.

In December 2007, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Baron Cohen announced that Ali G, along with Borat, had been retired.

Ali G is a stereotype of a white suburban male from Staines ( now Staines-upon-Thames ) who imitates rap culture as well as urban British and Jamaican culture, particularly through hip hop, reggae, drum and bass and jungle music.

Ali G was part of a group called Berkshire Massif, and he ran and grew up in an area of Slough called Langley ( both actual locations in the UK ).

Ali G, a boorish, uneducated, faux-streetwise poseur with a deeply stereotypical view of the world, first came to prominence on Channel 4's The Eleven O ' Clock Show as the " voice of da yoof " in 1998.

" Ali G asked the Bishop about God's appearance, to which the Bishop replied, " Well, he's sort of Jesus-shaped.

" During an interview with James Ferman ( former director of the British Board of Film Classification ), Ali G asks whether his made-up vulgarities would restrict a film to an over-18 audience, and suggests that film censorship be performed by younger persons who understand contemporary slang.

Ali G was in a series of ads for the 2005 – 06 NBA season, in which he used his brand of off-kilter journalism to interview various NBA stars.

Ali G was also featured in the music video " Music " by Madonna as her limo driver.

Ali G is a fictional gang member of the " West Staines Massif ", who currently lives with his grandmother in a semi-detached house at 36 Cherry Blossom Close, in the heart of the " Staines Ghetto ".

Staines, a working-class commuter town to the west of London, is far different from the inner city ghetto that Ali G claims.

Ali G speaks a comical patois in keeping with his delusions of being black of Jamaican ancestry and peppered with such catchphrases as " Aight " ( alright ), " Booyakasha ", " Big up Yaself ", " Wagwaan ", " West Side ", " Batty Boy " " Respek " ( respect ), " For Real ", " Poonani ", " Check It " and " Keep It Real ".

Although Baron Cohen has repeatedly stated that the Ali G character is a parody of suburban, privileged youth ' acting black ', numerous commentators have opined that the force of the humour is derived from stereotypes of blacks, not poser whites.

Professor Wolff was one of the first people to be interviewed by Ali G, during the character's initial appearances on The 11 O ' Clock Show.

( Ali G also called him " Buzz Lightyear ").

The interview appeared on the War episode of the Da Ali G Show.

* Rhodes Boyson, former British Conservative education minister, who agreed with Ali G that metric system should not be taught in school because ' one deals in quarters and eighths of ounces '

During this interview Ali G is perplexed about the difference between the terms " bilingual " and " bisexual.

* Marlin Fitzwater, former White House Press Secretary, who ended the interview after calling Ali G an idiot.

* Daryl Gates, former Los Angeles Police Chief ( He was referred to as " Bill Gates " by Ali G ).

The Imam Hasan Ali Shah was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati ( d. 1815 ), a poet and a Ni ‘ mat Allahi Sufi.

He was born in Karachi ( then under British colonial rule ), to Aga Khan II and his third wife, Nawab A ' lia Shamsul-Muluk, who was a granddaughter of Iran Fath Ali Shah of Persia ( Qajar dynasty ).

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (; ; born Ali Mohamed al-Fakheri, 1963 – 10 May 2009 ) was a Libyan captured and interrogated by the American and Egyptian forces.

In 1876, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born in the city, which by now had become a bustling city with mosques, temples, courthouses, paved streets and a magnificent harbour.

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

Roerik of Dorestad was born about 810 / 820 to Ali Anulo, 9th King of Haithabu.

Ali was born on a Council Estate to mother Tina.

The Milwaukee Bucks starting small forward, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, was born in Yaoundé in September 1986 as well as Toronto FC midfielder Nane Joseph and former striker Ali Gerba.

*** His Royal Highness Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan ( born 1975 ).

Nabil Ali Muhammad ( Abu Rashid ) Shaath (,, also spelled Sha ' ath ; born August 1938 in Safad ) is a senior Palestinian official.

Egyptian rule was relatively benign ( by some accounts Muhammad Ali had either been born or spent his infancy on Thasos ) and the island became prosperous, until 1908, when the New Turk regime asserted Turkish control.

Kilo Ali ( born May 1, 1973 ), formerly Kilo, is an American rap music Artist from Atlanta, Georgia.

Laila Amaria Ali ( born December 30, 1977 ) is a retired American professional boxer.

Tatyana Marisol Ali ( born January 24, 1979 ) is an American actress and R & B singer, best known for her childhood role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

* Mehmet Ali Talat, the 2nd President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, was born in Kyrenia on 6 July 1952.

Hyder Ali was born in Budikote ; he was Fatah Muhammad's fifth child, and the second by his third wife.

Ali Shariati ( Ali Mazinani ) was born in 1933 in Kahak ( a village in Mazinan ), a suburb of Sabzevar, found in northeastern Iran.

Ali Ahmeti () ( born January 4, 1959 in the village of Zajas, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia ) is the political leader of the Democratic Union for Integration (), a governing ( as of 2008 ) political party in Republic of Macedonia.

They are the parents of three daughters: Mattie Denise ( born June 19, 1990 ), Alexandra Jane " Ali " ( born August 23, 1993 ), and Dani Grace ( born August 28, 1997 ).

* Iron Sheik ( born 1943 ), ring name of Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, Iranian wrestler and actor

Idries Shah was born in Simla, India, to an Afghan-Indian father, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, a writer and diplomat, and a Scottish mother, Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah.