{"id":868033,"date":"2026-08-25T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868033\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:12:10","slug":"ali-g-who-iz-i-trailer-sacha-baron-cohen-character-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868033\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen Character Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe first trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen<\/a>\u2018s latest top-secret movie project has been revealed.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon-MGM Studios released the first footage from Ali G: Who Iz I? (below), which returns Cohen\u2019s hip-hop journalist character in a feature film \u201cdocumentary\u201d following Cohen as he unleashes Ali G on an unsuspecting public.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been gone for 20 years, chilling,\u201d Cohen narrates as Ali G. \u201cAnd in that time, the world went to crap. There\u2019s been Wars. Covid. And Ed Sheeran. I\u2019m going to get back on top with a brand new thing called a \u2018documentary.\u2019 For the first time ever, this is with real people not actors. For more than a year we let the cameras follow me everywhere. Nothing was off limits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe footage includes Cohen\u2019s taking classes, walking the streets, and going on various shows as Ali G (occasionally accompanied by a very pregnant-looking girlfriend, played by British comedian Morgana Robinson).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt got the very latest firearms technology, action, drama, heartbreak, plot twists and the very latest TikTok trends,\u201d Cohen adds. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film marks Cohen\u2019s directorial debut. The official description: \u201cAfter twenty years spent \u2018chillin\u2019, tokin\u2019 and bonin\u2019,\u2019 Ali G is shocked to discover that his long-term girlfriend, Julie, is 8 months pregnant. Faced with an extra mouth to feed, he gets off his batty and heads to America to reclaim his former glory\u2026 but soon encounters adversaries who will ultimately threaten his and his child\u2019s very existence.<\/p>\n

\n\tNews first leaked that Cohen would be making another Ali G project in July and he was spotted in character attending Wimbledon. <\/p>\n

\n\tCohen first introduced Ali G on Channel 4\u2019s\u00a0The 11 O\u2019Clock Show\u00a0in 1998. Two years later, Cohen got his own series, Da Ali G Show, a sketch comedy series that included the character. Cohen also had a 2002 feature, Ali G Indahouse, but it was another Ali G Show character, Borat Sagdiyev, who would propel Cohen to global fame with the release of 2006\u2019s Borat and its 2020 sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAli G: Who Iz I? will be released in theaters Oct. 23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen\u2018s latest top-secret movie project has been revealed. Amazon-MGM Studios released the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,18297],"class_list":["post-868033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-sacha-baron-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}