Sacha Baron Cohen is probably one of the most recognizable comics today, and his legacy of playing his satirical personas such as Ali G, Borat, Bruno, and General Aladeen has definitely earned him the right to try and make another project reprising one of them. While the last Borat film wasn’t necessarily my favourite, I had even lower expectations from “Ali G: Who is I.” I mean, Ali G’s whole USP was pranking powerful people like Donald Trump, Noam Chomsky, Buzz Aldrin, and the Beckhams, none of whom realized they were being made fun of. Cohen’s flashy outfits and outrageous questions were far better suited to an era we’ve all left behind, and even Zach Galifianakis’ “Between Two Ferns,” which is a much less offensive bit compared to Cohen’s, doesn’t seem funny anymore whenever I come across clips of it online. In this latest venture, Cohen takes on everything from the anxieties of impending parenthood and extremist left-wing activists willing to go to great lengths to cancel someone, to MAGA fanatics who would rather risk a baby’s life than fact-check ridiculous claims about immigrants taking over their country. I personally think the film is trying to bite off far more than it can chew. And even though Cohen, through Ali G, attempts to somewhat redeem the character while advocating for peace, the movie ultimately ends up being a rather gross melting pot that you wouldn’t necessarily want to touch. But hey, I’m an Indian, and we have far crazier real-life characters in this country than Ali G, so without further ado, here’s everything that happens in “Ali G: Who is I?” [Spoilers Ahead]
What happens in the film?
Ali G is not doing very well in big 2026, decades after his hit show on HBO was cancelled. He recalls how people lashed out at him for pretending to be Black, or using the N word. In his defence, he says he only says N beep, as the broadcasters always beep the word. When he asked for a ten million dollar contract for the third season of his show, HBO decided to pull the plug for good. Now Ali G lives at the house of his Nan, who died when his special Diddy Edition marble jacuzzi, which was apparently mounted on the ceiling, squashed her. He tried working as a zookeeper and a highway maintenance worker, but he failed miserably. On top of that, Ali’s longtime girlfriend, Julie, gets pregnant, but the man still can’t tell if it’s a baby bump or a stomach infection. When a doctor finally bursts Ali’s bubble, he decides to sell all the stuff he owns at a pawn shop, but most of his possessions are fake replicas, so he doesn’t get much money out of it. Julie considers opening an OnlyFans account to sell foot pictures, but obviously Ali won’t let that happen. But while selling his old fax machine, Ali discovers an old fax from HBO, which says they’re offering him 3.2 million dollars for the third season of his talk show. As Ali posts about this huge news on his tiktok account, his biggest hater, Dr. Nira Cain, decides that he has to get Ali cancelled before he regains popularity. Nira is a performative activist who’s no less of a cultural appropriator himself. The cover of his book features his face in a portrait larger than Martin Luther King’s, while the title, “I Have a Better Dream,” is a blatant dig at the civil rights icon himself. Nira hijacks a community meeting to warn the people about Ali G and his antics. When some of the attendees point out how Nira is no better than Ali G, he’s so delusional that he asks the person to leave. However, Ali G arrives in L.A, ready to reclaim his crown. He sends Julie to go shopping while he meets his new team. But as this new team of creatives discuss how they’re going to revive the show, HBO executives call Ali G to tell him that the offer was made 20 years ago, and we understand that he never received it because his fax machine wasn’t plugged in. Ali runs away, since he obviously doesn’t have the money to pay for the lobsters and the caviar they just ate.
How does Ali G revive his career?
Poor Julie can’t buy the house she liked, because there’s no HBO contract, but Ali G is shocked to learn that she’s getting baby advice from a TikTok influencer. He figures that he should do his show on TikTok, and in that way, he won’t have to spend a fortune to produce it. Julie hooks him up with a sponsor, a shady nutrition company, and Ali G’s show is back in a different format. Ali’s first guest is an ex-brigadier, whom he interviews in an ASMR-style setting, speaking extremely slowly and occasionally scraping the microphone as well. His second guest is a political analyst who indulges in a mukbang-style video while talking about the elections. Similarly, Ali shoots a clothes try-on haul video with a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist. Ali’s tiktok account blows up, and he crosses one million subscribers. But in one of his videos, Nira confronts him, representing “the entire Black community,” and he claims that Ali can’t call himself Black until he proves that one of his parents is Black. Although Ali initially brushes it off as a hate comment, another subscriber soon leaves a comment on his video. A man named Rocky Atkins claims to be Ali’s father and says they need to talk ASAP, Rocky. Having simply signed his name at the end of the comment, much like Raymond Holt from “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” Ali is convinced that his father is ASAP Rocky, the musician.
Why is Ali cancelled?
While Ali celebrates the fact that his father is a Black man, Nira decides to prove that Ali is White. Nira assembles a team of jobless people, Mitchell, Ethan, Adam, and Manu, who is Nira’s unpaid African intern whom he ‘liberated’ from The Gambia, a country which is literally nicknamed “The Smiling Coast of Africa” for how friendly its people are. However, Nira tells his recruits that they must procure a DNA sample of Ali to prove his ancestry. But how they manage to obtain Ali’s DNA is something I’m going to have a hard time explaining, because this is a PG-13 website, people. So Ali goes to a store to buy condoms, but he ends up buying Viagra, and he pops a couple of them despite the cashier warning him not to. When he gets back to his motel, which Nira and Mitchell have broken into, Ali is so high that he has no idea what’s happening around him. As Ali lays on his bed, he mistakes Nira for Julie, and to avoid getting caught, Nira pretends to be his girlfriend. Things get so out of hand that Nira ends up sleeping with Ali, only to then squat outside the motel room and collect some of Ali’s semen to send off to the laboratory. Mitchell is horrified by what he’s seen, and it is up to him to go tell Ali about the results from the DNA test. When Ali sees that he’s one hundred percent Scottish, he can’t believe it. Nira records the entire fiasco and posts it on the internet, and the people don’t take long to cancel Ali G for good. Instead of learning from this, Ali decides to watch some apology videos from celebrities who’ve been cancelled before him, like Will Smith. He then invites people from all the different communities to a room to apologize to them, and he literally says exactly the things Will Smith said, like how he couldn’t take a joke about Jada Smith’s medical condition. If that wasn’t bad enough, Ali then plays an AI-generated video featuring people from the Black community, Nelson Mandela, a church choir full of Black people, Whitney Houston, Black Jesus, Tupac, The Notorious B.I.G., Moses, Adolf Hitler, Greta Thunberg, and even his dead Nanny, all forgiving him. Everybody leaves before the video ends, and Ali G remains officially cancelled. Nira thinks he’s won this battle, as he puts Ali’s picture next to Malala Yousafzai and Barack Obama, people he’s going to try and get cancelled after Ali G.
Why is Nira kidnapping Julia?
Just when Ali and Julie are about to leave American soil, a man named Karl Condello calls him, showing solidarity for what the woke mob did to him. Condello asks Ali to host a show without any filters, where he can be himself completely without any repercussions. Even though Julie senses that this offer might be too good to be true, Ali is too excited to let it pass them by. When Julie asks him to come with her and be a father, he chooses being a host over that. Ali heads to San Diego, to meet Dirk Visser, a South African producer who is going to produce “The Free Speech Show.” Visser is an ex-arms manufacturer who invented the South African Uzi, a submachine gun. When Ali meets Visser, the producer shows his host the set, and his entry into the stage, which looks like a woman spreading her legs; there’s no other way to say this. Visser manipulates Ali into believing that everything Ali has to say on camera is about spreading love and supporting free speech. But when Nira gets to know about Ali’s new show, he decides to kidnap Julie using Colonel Erran Morad, a man who claims to be the Terrorist Terminator. Morad believes that ISIS terrorists are terrified when someone flashes their bare backside at them. So, he has taken things a step further and developed a wearable prosthetic butt with a rather questionable attachment at the front (a male genitalia). When confronted by a terrorist, one must flash this bizarre prosthetic butt and perform some good old-fashioned pretend onanism to fire the gun hidden inside it. Nira contacts Morad, and he introduces Nira to his students as an ICE operative. Morad’s students then hear Nira introduce Ali G as Alejandro Gonzales, the head of El Salvador’s deadliest cartel. Nira shows a video where Ali G is being called virgin by a bunch of kids, so Ali, being Ali, claims that he’s slept with fourteen thousand women and has ten kids with each of them. What’s actually moronic is that Morad’s students believe that a man has produced 140,000 children and now plans to invade America with his army of kids. Nira then claims that if Julia’s anchor baby is born on American soil, all its thousands of siblings will immediately become American citizens, and I don’t even want to try to debunk this for all of you. So these morons believe Nira, and his promise to give them a meeting with the president if they can successfully transport Julia to Mexico before she gives birth.
Why does Ali G leave his new show?
Ali G makes his mega comeback in “The Free Speech Show” with much charisma and confidence, and he tells HBO to suck it. But when Ali looks at the teleprompter, he realises that Visser is delivering an anti-immigrant speech, and he’s expected to endorse that same rhetoric on camera. In the next segment, Ali kicks off a competition called Final Solution, where two contestants face off in a wicked game. The contestants have to round up dolls marked as progressives, liberal judges, pro-vaxxers, illegals, and babies. Whoever can put the most dolls in a shower chamber which will later be filled with gas, wins. Meanwhile, Morad and co manage to kidnap Julie while she’s about to give birth, and they’re dressed up as medical professionals, so poor Julie doesn’t think twice before hopping into the fake ambulance. But Ali, on the other hand, realizes that the show is literally about spreading hatred, and even the hand gesture he’s instructed to make is copied straight from none other than Hitler himself. He remembers how Julie said this show sounds unethical, so he decides to quit and leave to be with Julie before she gives birth. I’m just surprised Visser didn’t make Ali sign a contract that prevents him from leaving. But Ali G is off to see Julie, having no idea that she’s been kidnapped.
How does Ali G save his wife and kid?
When Morad sees that Julia is about to give birth in the falafel truck-turned-ambulance, he decides to pull up at a deserted medical centre. All these men decide that as long as the baby doesn’t touch U.S. soil, they’re good. Even though Julia now realizes that the men she’s with aren’t real doctors, she has no option but to push the baby out of her. After the baby is delivered, Morad puts the baby in a bag, and off they go to the Mexican border, where they intend to attach the bag to a drone and fly it into Mexican territory. Meanwhile, Ali tracks Julie’s phone and gets to the medical centre she’s in, where she tells him that the baby has been kidnapped. Ali G sees the falafel truck driving away, and he chases it on foot. The guy flying the drone receives a warning that the payload must be dropped, and Morad tells him to go ahead and drop it, essentially sacrificing the baby to save the “White race.” However, as soon as they drop the baby, Ali manages to run and catch his newborn. Nira arrives, and he asks Morad and his men to kill Ali G, so they flash their prosthetic butts towards him and try to shoot him with the disgusting process that’s involved. But Ali shows the video where Nira procured his DNA, and seeing how he did it, the men realize the so-called ICE agent is a fake. Nira still doesn’t give up, and he tries to grab Julie, but she kicks him right in the jewels. Morad’s men try to kill Nira, but Ali G tells them to stop, and he preaches his message of peace to protect the next generation. Ali G tells his story to his son after he’s grown up a few months, and he’s rich again, since his real father, Rocky Atkins, turns out to be an Elvis impersonator who’s loaded. He finally marries Julie, and the two of them now have booming careers on Tiktok and OnlyFans. Nira has been cancelled for good, and the credits roll, with ASAP Rocky and Rihanna meeting Ali G. Even though the pop star is furious that Ali G won’t stop calling him his dad, despite him being younger than him, Rihanna decides to take a dig at her partner and declares Ali G to be her stepson. So, all’s well that ends well, innit?
