Louis Theroux
speaker
6,783 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4 Aug
Louis Theroux’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And without getting too deep in the weeds on it, there's a comedian, Dane Baptiste.
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Who says that if someone comes up to him and says, as soon as you say it, I fucking hate you.
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Right?
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And I was just struck that there was almost a sense like, oh, we've sort of arrived at a place where we can do edgy racial comedy.
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There was also Keith Lemon and Little Britain are also mentioned, but the Ali G show in particular was,
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Any reflections on that?
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It's a fine line, isn't it?
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Because I think at the time it was like, well, he's not like Sacha Baron Cohen who plays Ali G. He's not darkening his skin, but he's playing an ambiguous character.
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What is Ali G's ethnicity?
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It's never really made clear, is it?
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And so it felt like people gave it a pass, or some people gave it a pass at the time, feeling like, oh, no, I think he's making fun of a white guy, suburban white guy.
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who'd like to think he's black, but it all got a little bit blurry.
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It's evident that you have to, or maybe feel you have to pick your way quite carefully.
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Like maybe in a way that a white comedian might not.
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You talk about pressure.
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You can't slip up.
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You have to represent your community properly.
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Your mum is quite rude, isn't it?
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Oh yeah, very, very rude.
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Or in control enough, at least.
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