TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW OF ALI G WITH JAMES FIRMAN OF THE BBFC - CENSORSHIP

Ali G: Wicked, I is here with none other than my main man, James Firman. He is the geezer that sign his name under the films. Now why do we have censorship?

James Firman: Well strangely enough most people in this country think there should be some kind of regulation of the media

Ali G: Aye. You must have seen some real dodgy things in your time, aye

JF: (Laughs) Aye, a few dodgy things, yes

Ali G: Must be the best job in the world though, ..

JF: (Incomprehensible)

Ali G: watching porno all day

JF: I know.. yes. Well you think you'd enjoy it but you.. you don't

Ali G: But you've seen twenty-five years of it?

JF: Mmm

Ali G: I mean nobody can, you know, ..

JF: Well..

Ali G: .. keep it hard for that long

JF: Yeah, that's not.. that's not the test I would apply

(Break)

Ali G: What films have been banned?

JF: Very few films that you've heard of have been banned

Ali G: So why did they ban Chocolate Orange?

JF: (Incomprehensible)

Ali G: Whatever

JF: Whatever

Ali G: Yeah

JF: Erm, well nobody banned that except Stanley Kubrick who made it

Ali G: Do you not think that the category 18 is too vague? Should you not have a category that guarantees you muff?

JF: (Laughs) You do have consumer advice (incomprehensible)..

Ali G: Aye

JF: If you buy a video you'll see on it exactly what it contains

Ali G: So why do they not have that for the films as well?

JF: They have it..

Ali G: This has swearing

JF: They have it.. They have it

Ali G: This would definitely have..

JF: They have it now..

Ali G: .. fanny in it

JF: .. on films as well (incomprehensible)

(Break)

Ali G: What swear words make an 18?

JF: Well 18 is the sexual expletives

Ali G: Aye

JF: Erm, but er..

Ali G: So is flange an 18 or a 16?

JF: I don't know what flange means

Ali G: So that.. Well that is a word for the poonani, so in other words that can get..

JF: I don't know what poonani means

Ali G: Well that is what I is saying. Okay, so there..

JF: You're coming up with a whole lot of words that I've never heard before

Ali G: So there is a whole load of terms that mean the same thing as, you know, ..

JF: Yeah

Ali G: .. what we're saying, the twat or whatever and they can slip in to a PG if you don't know..

JF: I suppose they can if we don't.. if we don't understand the word..

Ali G: So do you not need ..

JF: .. something 'll get through

Ali G: .. somebody who's more street who knows the terms on the street so no.. ah, wait a minute, they said minge, me know that they talking about the (incomprehensible)?

JF: (Incomprehensible)

Ali G: So what about the word vagina, does that make it an 18?

JF: No, no

Ali G: But that is the most dirty word

JF: It's not dirty, it's a part of the anatomy

Ali G: That is.. no, but I make it sound horrible. Thank you very much Mr Firman, big up yourself. D'you wanna big up anyone out there, any directors, give a shout out or something like that?

JF: No, just keep up the good work

Ali G: Okay, wicked, thanks a lot

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