May 6, 2000

3:37 PM

Metafilter meets Ali G...If you lived in Europe or were familiar with what's "in" there, you'd know about Ali G, well the guys over at Mackers have created "Da Ali G Translator," which is a lot of fun to play with.

Here's a list of some other sites that I tried out.
Blogger
kottke.org
Powazek Productions

posted by riffola (7 comments total)

PS: I'm not sure if this constitues as a "good" post, but it was a lot of fun playing with the translator and I just had to share it you.
posted by riffola at 3:38 PM on May 6, 2000

Hear me now! (in real audio). I think the old interviews were much funnier than his new show. My favourite is the interview with the head of the CIA. But I doubt anyone outside the UK will have a clue who Ali G is anyway.
posted by echelon at 4:25 PM on May 6, 2000

I do! The Irish get UK channels as well :-) So do Belgium and Holland.

Here's me webpage in the Ali G style, man!
posted by tomcosgrave at 6:34 PM on May 6, 2000

Well I'm in NYC, and we don't get his show here, but I did get to see him in the Brit awards. Now thanks to echelon, I can finally listen to his shows too.
posted by riffola at 6:50 PM on May 6, 2000

I don't get it... what's the appeal?
posted by sudama at 3:22 PM on May 7, 2000

Sudama - the appeal is that Ali does a satire of white teenagers who try and emulate black culture - they listen to hip-hop, wear the clothes, and adopt the mannerisms and slangwords....it's pretty funny stuff. Mostly it's aimed at a UK audience.
posted by tomcosgrave at 3:39 AM on May 8, 2000

#800
posted by riffola at 9:14 AM on March 23, 2002