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 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 ).

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.

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Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

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 succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah, also known as Muhammad Hasan, who became the 46th Imam.

The Imam Hasan Ali Shah's mother decided to go to the Qajar court in Tehran to obtain justice for her husband's death and was eventually successful.

Hasan Ali Shah thus become known as Aga Khan Mahallati, and the title of Aga Khan was inherited by his successors.

Until Fath Ali Shah's death in 1834, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah enjoyed a quiet life and was held in high esteem at the Qajar court.

Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.

Despite the service he rendered to the Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.

When it was clear that continuing the resistance was of little use, Hasan Ali Shah sent one of his brothers to Shiraz in order to speak to the governor of Fars to intervene on his behalf and arrange for safe passage out of Kerman.

Hasan Ali Shah was on a hunting trip at the time, but he sent a messenger to request permission of the monarch to go to Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage.

Permission was given, and Hasan Ali Shah's mother and a few relatives were sent to Najaf and other holy cities in Iraq in which the shrines of his ancestors, the Shiite Imams are found.

Hajji Mirza Aqasi sent a messenger to Bahman Mirza to inform him of the spuriousness of Hasan Ali Shah's documents and a battle between Bahman Mīrzā and Hasan Ali Shah broke out in which Bahman Mirza was defeated.

At the time of his arrival in Shahr-i Babak, a formal local governor was engaged in a campaign to drive out the Afghans from the city's citadel, and Hasan Ali Shah joined him in forcing the Afghans to surrender.

The British also negotiated the safe return of Hasan Ali Shah to Persia, which was in accordance with his own wish.

The government agreed to Hasan Ali Shah's return provided that he would avoid passing through Baluchistan and Kirman and that he was to settle peacefully in Mahallat.

Hasan Ali Shah was eventually forced to leave for Calcutta in April 1847, where he remained until he received news of the death of Muhammad Shah Qajar.

Although some of his lands were restored to the control of his relatives, his safe return could not be arranged, and Hasan Ali Shah was forced to remain a permanent resident of India.

While in India, Hasan Ali Shah continued his close relationship with the British, and was even visited by the Prince of Wales when the future King Edward VII was on a state visit to India.