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ROANOKE, VA. - British comedian Ali G provokes near riot at rodeo
Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian best known by his alter-ego Ali G, nearly provoked a riot at a Virginia rodeo last week, according to the event's organizers.
Cohen's cable TV program Da Ali G Show involves him interacting with both celebrities and regular people in various guises, including Borat Sagdiyev, a TV reporter from Kazakhstan.
In this guise, the comic convinced rodeo organizers he was making a documentary and told an audience of about 4,000 last Friday that he was a supporter of the U.S.-led actions in Iraq.
"I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards," Cohen reportedly told the booing, increasingly angry crowd in broken English. "And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq."
He then went on to sing a mangled version of the Star Spangled Banner before rodeo officials realized the hoax and, fearing violence from the crowd, hustled Cohen and his crew away.
"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," rodeo producer Bobby Rowe told the Roanoke Times newspaper.
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ROANOKE, VA. - British comedian Ali G provokes near riot at rodeo
Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian best known by his alter-ego Ali G, nearly provoked a riot at a Virginia rodeo last week, according to the event's organizers.
Cohen's cable TV program Da Ali G Show involves him interacting with both celebrities and regular people in various guises, including Borat Sagdiyev, a TV reporter from Kazakhstan.
In this guise, the comic convinced rodeo organizers he was making a documentary and told an audience of about 4,000 last Friday that he was a supporter of the U.S.-led actions in Iraq.
"I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards," Cohen reportedly told the booing, increasingly angry crowd in broken English. "And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq."
He then went on to sing a mangled version of the Star Spangled Banner before rodeo officials realized the hoax and, fearing violence from the crowd, hustled Cohen and his crew away.
"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," rodeo producer Bobby Rowe told the Roanoke Times newspaper.
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