A decade after Noel Gallagher said he was the worst kind of influence on kids, Sacha Baron Cohen got the last laugh on the Oasis songwriter/co-founder over the weekend when he roped the rock icon into a bit to promote his new Ali G movie. In an Instagram video on Saturday (Oct. 24), Cohen, dressed in his absurdist character’s signature oversized, shiny puffer jacket, track pants, goggles and black durag, confronted Gallagher for snagging his seat at a screening of the new comedy sequel Ali G: Who Iz I?
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Walking into the cinema with a flashlight, Ali peeps Gallagher’s A1 seat in the theater and snaps, “You’se in my seat. Iz you got a ticket?” at a smiling Gallagher as the crowd howls in the background. “Get up, get up, show yourself!” Ali G demands, yanking Gallagher up by his lapel.
“Oh, you look like whatshisname, one of them Oasis twins, inni’it?,” the buffoonish character says as he flashes his camera flashlight in Gallagher’s face. “You’se Nigel Gallagher, inni’it? A 50-year-old white man trying to make a comeback after 20 years, so sad,” adds the youth culture-appropriating character created by the 55-year-old comedian/actor, a double spicy diss as his own new film is the long-awaited sequel to 2002’s Ali G Indahouse. Gallagher, of course, just announced the new round of 2027 reunion dates with his band after their own 15-year split.
As is his wont, Ali G then started hitting on Gallagher’s girlfriend, asking his they’re together and then explaining, “not anymore.”
“Yo, listen, I is here and because I’ze feeling very charitable, I’ze gonna give selfies tonight, 30 bucks, if you want ganja, 30 bucks, if you want a hand–b from me Julie, 20 bucks,” Ali G told a laughing audience, noting that a hey-howya-doing from Gallagher would only run you $3.
Gallagher, who has done virtually no press to promote the Oasis tours, was a spot-on choice for the bit, as he memorably took a playful swipe at Cohen’s character a decade ago, saying he didn’t want his kids to come home from classes speaking in Ali G’s embarrassing, faux Jamaican patois.
“My kids go to private school because I don’t want them coming home talking like Ali G,” Gallagher said in 2015.
Cohen’s latest mockumentary comedy was produced, written and directed by the star, who plays the titular character in the film, as well as left college professor Dr. Nira Cain-N’Degeocoello, as well as square jawed former Israeli Mossad agent Erran Moran.