06/10/2004: 
Stuff That Doesn't Suck
Is you smart? Ali G does Harvard
from The Boring Broadsheet
Harvard's graduation exercises took a turn for the risque yesterday, as the British comedian Ali G barraged thousands of sweltering students and their parents with a mix of slang, satire, and NC-17 material.
Speaking at Class Day, a traditionally lighthearted event that precedes today's graduation ceremony, the faux-gangster rapper emerged to loud cheers clad in a crimson vinyl track suit and skull cap. Ropes of chain hung around his neck. ''Professor G in the house, a'ight!" he yelled triumphantly.
''You is da most cleverestest students in America," he said to the crowd gathered amid the stately brick buildings of Harvard Yard. But after praising Harvard's ''brain boxes," the speech quickly digressed (or in Mr. G's words, ''digested") into an uneven rant that ranged from hotel-room porn movies to the ''bling" awaiting Harvard students in the future.
''I thought it was funny, but I thought he crossed the line a couple of times," said Javier Valle, a graduating senior. ''My mom may have squirmed a little bit."
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After speaking, when Ali G returned to the stage to receive an honorary gift from the student body, a policeman accompanied him and he held his hands behind his back as if handcuffed. ''Police brutality," he joked before lifting a shot glass with several members of the class of 2004 for a celebratory toast.
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Thursday the 10th of June, crazyhaterinla noted:
I got tired of him a while ago...a step above Tom Green
Thursday the 10th of June, ali g noted:
Talking to Sue Ramsey. A member of the assembly of Sinn Fein...
Ali : Wot is it the language that they speak 'ere?
Sue : Gaelic.
Ali : GAY-LICK? What is that botty language or somfin, what is the real name of it?
Ali : What is the vibe with drugs in Ireland? It might be stereotyping or whatever man but I is heard that the Irish is always up for the crack.
Sue : No, no. Crack in Ireland means having a good time.
Ali : A'ight, for real but crack is a bad drug there is a high but also a low.
Thursday the 10th of June, ali g also noted:
Ali : Why do they call it the welfare state? Is it coz it is well fair?
Ali : Unemployment benefit is wicked no, coz you get money for doing nothing, just chilling.
Ali : Me want to work when me want to work. Most of the time me want to just chill or whatever, or just hang with me beetches.
Ali : The good thing about electing celebrities is that you know what day is like, ufferwise you get the MP's and then you find out that after a year that they is like, you know sleeping with horses or whatever.
Thursday the 10th of June, ali g noted:
Ali : What is education.
Rhodes : Education is basic literacy and numeracy.
Ali : And what is they?
Ali : What do you reckon about the Maffs.
Rhodes : What, the Maths?
Ali : Ayyy. Do you rate tha Maffs or do you rock tha Maffs?
Rhodes : What is the Maffs?
Ali : You know. One, two, three or whatever.
Rhodes : I see, yes.
Ali : Well why don't they teach propa Maffs in schools?
Rhodes : What do you mean by propa Maths?
Ali : Instead of teaching kilos and grams, why don't the teach ounces,
quarters and eighths?
Rhodes : Yes, I mean in baking you need to know those terms.
Ali : Ayyy, for real. Me know baking.
Rhodes : I bake my own breakfast every morning.
Ali : Ayyy. An me make ME own breakfast an all. I mean who ever bought a kilo of anything man. Except me mate Dave but he's gone down now.
Friday the 11th of June, awiggins noted:
Thats funny?
