The only way it would work/still have relevance is if the character was reinvented as a manosphere influencer/podcaster.

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Ali G's schtick was - to put it *very* kindly - rooted in the specific multicultural anxieties of 90s Britain. Those anxieties have now been supplanted by other - in many cases worse, but all quite different - tropes/clichés. The "white guy who attempts patois, sounds like Tarzan" isn't one of them.

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Really fascinating case of a thoroughly orphaned cultural object. What living person is Ali G "satirising" in 2026? Like, Harry Enfield didn't scrap Loadsamoney due to political correctness, it's cos the Thatcherist parvenu (and the anxiety its emergence triggered within society) no longer exists.

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They probably read the first few pages that are about the People's Crusade murdering the shit out of a bunch of jews at home and were immediately sold.

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It is. It’s from the scene when King Baldwin IV and his army from Jerusalem arrived at Kerak to met Saladin’s army.

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