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Positive:
10
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
As funny as TV gets. [20 Feb 2003, p.112]
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
This is rich material: Think of it as a particularly outrageous "Candid Camera," with politicians and Sunday-morning talking heads as the marks. [21 Feb 2003, p.U35]
Jan 14, 2026
Season 1 Review:
You've seen this kind of shtick before on other shows, but Cohen occasionally gets off a laugh-out-loud moment. [21 Feb 2003, p.45]
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
He moons ya, he fools ya, and it don't mattah much if ya love him or ya hate him, he gonna make ya laugh. Dat's Ali G. [20 Feb 2003]
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
I'd seen a tape of Cohen's UK show and wasn't impressed - but as with so many TV stars, being on HBO just seems to improve him. [18 Feb 2003]
Jan 14, 2026
Season 1 Review:
What Cohen's characters lack in originality, they make up for in execution. [24 Feb 2003]
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
In England, critics have called Cohen the new Peter Sellers. If that's the case, it's not Sellers at his "Dr. Strangelove"-"Being There" shrewdest but, rather, at his do-it-for-the-money "Pink Panther"-sequel broadest. [21 Feb 2003]
Jan 14, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Despite Cohen's talent for submerging himself in his characters, "Da Ali G Show" is a spotty venture. [22 Feb 2003]
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
The Brits just love Ali G, but they have a considerable appetite for rude, politically incorrect satire. Americans may just find him rather peculiar. [21 Feb 2003, p.E5]
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
There's no question that Sacha Baron Cohen is talented. And it may prove unwise to discount the tremendous popularity he and his Ali G character achieved in the United Kingdom. But the concept is hardly original to an American audience and, unfortunately, plays well under the acceptable level of greatness we've all come to expect from HBO. [21 Feb 2003]
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
The galling part is how Cohen betrays satire by making it hollow and toothless. "Da Ali G Show" is a sheep in wolf's clothing. [21 Feb 2003]
Jan 13, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Cohen is talented, but there's nothing he's doing that wasn't done better, and more creatively, by Andy Kaufman decades ago. [21 Feb 2003]
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