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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.
Ali G ( born Alistair Leslie Graham ) is a satirical fictional character created and performed by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
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 ).

Ali and cannot
" Aladdin's Lamp " and " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves " appeared first in Galland's translation and cannot be found in any of the original manuscripts.
The Imam Ali said in Nahj al-Balagha: " Eyes cannot see Him, but He can be seen by the realities of faith ".
Up until this clash of the Government and Judiciary, none of Justice Sajjad Ali Shah ’ s colleagues had ever questioned his appointment and even his past decisions up until this time cannot be questioned.
23 ) Hadhrat Ali ( Radiahallahu Anhu ) says that I cannot comprehend that a person who is a born Muslim, or intelligent or one who accepted Islaam in a rational ( Arabic ) state spending the night without reciting Ayatul Kursi.
36 ) Hadhrat Ali ( Radiahallahu Anhu ) narrates ," I cannot understand how a person, who is a Muslim, and owner of reason ( intellect ) can spend the night without reading Ayatul Kursi.
* 1373: Muhammad as-Said is presented as the heir to his father, Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz ibn Ali, but being only five years old cannot reign, and dies in the same year.

Ali and why
In response to Ali G's perceived ignorance, Boutros-Ghali provides a detailed explanation about why Disneyland is not represented in the United Nations, and reveals which foreign languages sound comical to his ear.
On inquiry as to why the place was a sanctuary Harūn ar-Rashīd was told that it was the burial place of Ali.
It was reported that when people would ask Ali al-Hadi why he worked on a farm, he would then state, " Who was better than me and than my father, worked with spade in his farm.
Ahmad's followers claim that he had categorically vowed in Anjam-e-Atham not to engage in any more debates, as he judged them ineffective at convincing the religious clergy to reform ( the reason why he had challenged Meher Ali Shah to such a decisive contest in the first place and not to a debate ); rather, he would invoke God for divine intervention by holding such contests or " prayer duels ", which he called Ejazi-Muqabala, or " miraculous contest ", between him and his opponents, primarily Christian missionaries and Muslim scholars and divines.
This enraged Frazier who stood up from his seat and squared up to a seated Ali, repeating " why you call me ignorant ... how am I ignorant ".
The treaty is also regarded by Iranians as the main reason why Fath Ali Shah is seen as one of Iran's most incompetent rulers in memory.
* " 101 Reasons why Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli is the Core Author of Ali and Nino ," Azerbaijan International, Vol.
Nabi Mohammad declared Ali bin Abu Talib as his successor at a place called “ Ghadir-al-Khumm ” ( Ref: Hadith of the pond of Khumm ), which was required for the continuation of His guidance, that ’ s why he told that " for whoever I am a ' Moula ’ of them Ali is his ‘ Moula ’”.
* YouTube video of Nizam Ali explaining why the restaurant switched to 100 % wind powered energy.

Ali and is
Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.
* 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before ( citing religious reasons ), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
* 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.
" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.
The commercial success of Dutch hip hop is largely made by Brainpower, Yes-R, Ali B, Lange Frans & Baas B and Extince.
` Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isfahānī (), also known as Abu-l-Faraj or, in the West, as Abulfaraj ( 897 – 967 ) was an Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī.
The oldest identifiable source is the 17th century Centrum Naturae Concentratum of Alipili ( or Ali Puli ).
Lex Luthor, other supervillains, and various civilians have learned the secret identity several times, though their knowledge is usually been removed through various means ( the boxer Muhammad Ali is one of the very few to deduce the identity and retain the knowledge ).
There is one road to Somalia at Layado ; three roads to Ethiopia: south from Ali Sabieh parallel to the railway to Dewele, N1 to Deda ' i on Ethiopia No 2, and an unimproved track north-west from Balho to Ethiopia No 2 ; and two to Eritrea: an unpaved track overland from Tadjoura via Randa and Assa Gaila to Aseb, and a coastal track from Obock to Aseb ;
* The Hubert Kairuki Memorial University ( HKMU ) is a private institution located on plot No. 322 Regent Estate in the Mikocheni area, some 7-km from the Dar es Salaam City centre, off Ali Hassan Mwinyi and Old Bagamoyo roads.
Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.
* 1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
The shipwrecked Ottoman Admiral Seydi Ali Reis is known to have introduced the earliest type of Matchlock which were utilized against the Portuguese during the Siege of Diu ( 1531 ).
In the modern Islamic Republic of Iran the rahbar ( Supreme Leader, at present Ali Khamenei ) serves as head of state, above the elected ( sometimes lay ) president, who is formally the constitutional head of government.
The largest artificially created harbor is Jebel Ali in Dubai.
Isaiah is mentioned as a prophet in Ibn kathir's Stories of the Prophets and the modern writers Muhammad Asad and Abdullah Yusuf Ali accepted Isaiah as a true Hebrew prophet, who preached to the Israelites following the death of King David.
This position has been confirmed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and is also supported by many other Iranian clerics.
* 1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

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