Gee, that's a lot of Alis...
Hundreds of lookalikes descend on London
The West Staines Massiv took over London yesterday as 300 Ali G lookalikes joined Sacha Baron Cohen to promote his new film.
They took to the Thames for a boat party, posed for photos outside Big Ben and gathered in front of Marble Arch. They then descended on central London, travelling en masse from Covent Garden to Leicester Square, where they ordered hundreds of burgers at McDonald’s.
The chaos ended at Cineworld Leicester Square, where Ali crowned the winner of the Ali G lookalike competition.
In character, Ali G said: ‘Me iz well proud to have staged de biggest event in London since de Paris Olympics 3 years ago - de bloke who counts Donald Trump’s crowds said dere woz over 800,000 Ali Gs on de streets!
‘Dis haz gone so well me iz gonna make it an annual event every five years and best of all it went wivout trouble and it woz a massive boost to de London economy - in fact TK Maxx on Oxford Street had its busiest day in a decade wiv over 300K worf of goods shoplifted.’
Ali G: Who Iz I? is in cinemas for one weekend only on October 23 then, as the man himself says ‘at Egham Market on DVDs me haz burned’.
Published: 12 Oct 2026
