He is actually Jewish, playing a Mossad agent though.
The suggestion is a Jamaican man playing a Jewish Mossad agent to point out the hypocrisy of the Ali G character being a Jewish actor playing a black character.
The thing is I don’t believe Ali G is supposed to be a black person but instead a white person raised in the culture of British Jamaicans that immigrated when Jamaica was a Commonwealth country.
Ali G is a satirical character of a white English guy assimilating to Jamaican culture to try and be cool. He is from Staines which is a fringe town on the edge of London which is almost entirely white and English so only knows about the culture from TV and music so is massively over exaggerated. I think most of the nuance is lost on audience outside of the UK tbh.
That makes even more sense. I figured he was supposed to be from somewhere with lots of immigrants like Hackney but being from somewhere mostly white and being over exaggerated is even funnier.
I only saw clips online growing up that made it online.
I’m not defending anyone or anything, but want to point out SBC played a mossad agent in Who is America
He is actually Jewish, playing a Mossad agent though.
The suggestion is a Jamaican man playing a Jewish Mossad agent to point out the hypocrisy of the Ali G character being a Jewish actor playing a black character.
The thing is I don’t believe Ali G is supposed to be a black person but instead a white person raised in the culture of British Jamaicans that immigrated when Jamaica was a Commonwealth country.
Ali G is a satirical character of a white English guy assimilating to Jamaican culture to try and be cool. He is from Staines which is a fringe town on the edge of London which is almost entirely white and English so only knows about the culture from TV and music so is massively over exaggerated. I think most of the nuance is lost on audience outside of the UK tbh.
That makes even more sense. I figured he was supposed to be from somewhere with lots of immigrants like Hackney but being from somewhere mostly white and being over exaggerated is even funnier.
I only saw clips online growing up that made it online.
Ali G is playing wiggas not a black character.
It’s making fun of white people trying to be black.