Why there's no room for Ali G in modern Britain | Opinion

So Ali G is back – and not everyone is happy. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/user/theguardian?sub_confirmation=1 Sacha Baron Cohen’s skull-cap-wearing “rudeboy” is staging a comeback with Ali G: Who Iz I?. The new film premieres tomorrow as the character embraces fatherhood and TikTok, while donning new fake dreads and a rastacap. The Telegraph’s chief film critic, Robbie Collin, wrote that Ali G will save us from comedy’s offence police, while a pressure campaign asking cinemas not to screen Baron Cohen’s “racist caricature” has accrued more than 56,000 signatures. But assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye asks: is there really space for Ali G, a product of 90s and 00s culture, in today’s antagonistic political climate? #alig #sachabaroncohen #comedy #whoizi