All right, that headline’s a bit harsh, but you get the idea. I don’t think Ali G is funny. I first watched his particular form of sabotage comedy while living in Ireland, and found it more clumsy and cruel than amusing. Clearly, that intellectual giant Ashton Kutcher drew some inspiration for his awful (well, I’ve never watched it, but I’m going to speculate) show, Punked.
Regardless, the comedian who plays Ali G, Sasha Baron Cohen, caused a riot in Roanoke, Virginia when he claimed to be a visiting Kazakhstanian singer and garbled the National Anthem.
The Roanoke Times reported that the crowd turned “downright nasty.” One observer said “If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him.”
No joy there, apparently.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
He made the news over here a few weeks ago with footage of himself getting up on stage in a bar somewhere in America and getting everyone to sing along with him to the words “Push the Jew down the well” Apparently Sasha Baron Cohen is a Jew himself and was trying to show how fickle some people can be, I’d say he suceeded very well
Although I normally despise comedy which sets out to exploit or humiliate, when I see SBC doing Borat I have to respect him for his courage and skill. I can usually forgive his cruelty because he seems willing to put himself at risk [eg death by rodeo], with no other performers to hide behind.
Ashton Kutcher’s style [last I saw it] is very different; he hides in a van and giggles while actors playing FBI agents raid his buddy’s garage — really just an expensive and self-indulgent candid camera, and the classic “ha ha you fell for it!” that I really do despise…