If it's as remotely hilarious as reading all those (real or fake) transcriptions of his interviews that turn up on round robin e-mails, I'll be avoiding it like an enevlope full of anthrax.
It's called "Da Bible According To Ali G", so you can probably start to make some fairly accurate predictions of the likely content in your mind. No doubt it will be top of the bestseller lists at Christmas and have its own huge display rack in WH Smiths.
Bo.
> No doubt it will be top of the bestseller lists at Christmas and have its own huge display rack in WH Smiths.
... alongside merchandise from the film?
i don't think the film will be out until next year.
what we need here is a list of comedians who've never 'sold out'. there are very few i can think of off the top of my head. chris morris and peter cook obviously, bill hicks. woody allen did antz, does that count as selling out?
Peter Cook didn't sell out?
One word: Supergirl
>Peter Cook didn't sell out?
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>One word: Supergirl
go on, destroy all my comfortable delusions why don't you.
what about michael moore?
How do you mean selling out by simply writing a book or things like tours and stuff?
I personally don't mind "selling out" if its good(I.E makes ME laugh)If comedy artists make money from books and merchandise then maybe they're selling out but they're making a bit of cash while they're at it!
Chris Morris didn't sell out…?
Mmmm…rhetoric.
by selling out i mean changing what they do just to make more money, not just the act of making money.
i can't think of a cast iron, incontrovertible example at the moment which is kind of annoying.
>i can't think of a cast iron, incontrovertible example at the moment which is kind of annoying.
apart from making an Ali G movie obviously.
a braver soul than me might mention I'm Alan Partridge.
Oh I see. So for example if Chris Morris started doing Bobby Davro type comedy that would be selling out! Pop stars do it all the time e.g Spice girls
> if Chris Morris started doing Bobby Davro type comedy
I would pay good money to see this. Briefly.
But did The Fall "sell out" by signing to Phonogram?
I think not.
Anyhow, the reason why I started this thread is that my local tube station has a huge poster of Ali G advertising his fucking book, and I thought about going into Waterstones today to have a look at it so I could start a thread on the subject, but in the event I found I couldn't care less, so I just started the thread anyway so that other people could come in with wry and acerbic comments on the book gleaned from actually gazing at some of its pages.
I'm off back to that American forum where they tell me I'm going to hell for being an atheist.
>I'm off back to that American forum where they tell me I'm going to hell for being an atheist.
I can do that without trying to sell you glow-in-the-dark crucifixes.
>I can do that without trying to sell you glow-in-the-dark crucifixes.
Jesus sports statues, sir?
http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/soccer.html
>http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/soccer.html
People of the Forum! *This* is why we're not allowed to link anymore!
>Jesus sports statues, sir?
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>http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/soccer.html
I'm behind a firewall which won't let me see this because 'The Websense category "Traditional Religions" is restricted.' Is this life imitates 'Dogma' then?
Isn't putting up a firewall that restricts your access to sites related to your faith, a restriction of your human rights? Freedom of religion and the right to express your faith is one of those inalienable rights things, isn't it?
Buddy Christ says "Take 'em to court".
>>I can do that without trying to sell you glow-in-the-dark crucifixes.
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>Jesus sports statues, sir?
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>http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/soccer.html
LOL! But how come he's not playing American Football? Or Baseball? That would be infinitely more amusing! (IMO)
>>I can do that without trying to sell you glow-in-the-dark crucifixes.
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>Jesus sports statues, sir?
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>http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/soccer.html
Ah. just found the other pages. He is, but not quite what I had in mind. I want jesus in a helmet!
Could they expand the range to include the workplace, I wonder? Jesus the sysadmin, Jesus down the pub, watching over us as we drink. It's quite brilliant that these things exist without irony, Landoverbaptist.com couldn't have done it better.