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Making fun of people who take themselves too seriously

Ernie Svenson: Is pretty easy to do, but coming up with a fresh method is tough.  Don Novello's Lazlo Letters employed the technique of contrived letters from a rabidly adoring fan sent to celebrities and political figures.  Now we have Ali G, whose ruse is to obtain interviews with serious people--who believe him to be another cloying member of the mainstream press--and then proceeding to ask them innane questions.  Maureen Dowd apparently liked his interview of James Baker.

Yeah, he did a great one on his UK show a couple of years ago where he was asking an American finacier how much money he needed if he wanted to be a millionaire.
Then he asked him if he wanted to help finance his new business - selling slippers online (cos everyone needs slippers). His trick to make money would be to have his website slippers.com redirect to a pornsite..
classic TV.

I also remember his asking one guy who was getting upset with him if it was because he (Ali G) was black.
I guess you have to have seen him to see the funny side of that!

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