Ali G Invents the Ice Cream Glove

Daniel Dominguez · 1.4M views · 2006-03-20 · 6:59

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Overview

Ali G pitches his ice cream glove idea to marketing professionals and even talks to Donald Trump. It is a comedy sketch of a clueless entrepreneur seeking investment.

On Hacker News

HN uses it as a joke reference whenever a startup pitch or market-sizing claim sounds naive or absurd.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2009–2014

Topics

Stand-up & sketch comedy Satire & parody

What people said

7Figures2Commas · 2014-07 · Joke / meme
> Literally everyone. Everyone needs to move around their city. The size of the market is the size of the total city scale transportation market... Your approach to market sizing is eerily reminiscent of Ali G's[1]. Amusing, but not credible by any standard. [1] [VIDEO]
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thesash · 2011-11 · Joke / meme
> These videos are made so that the delivery manager can understand what the people around him are doing, and so he can explain it to the bean counters. The irony is that concepts that intentionally ignore reality create the impression among those same people who "don't get it" that these concepts not only are grounded in reality, but are as trivial to create as the concept video makes it look. It reminds me of this clip from Ali G: [VIDEO]
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yarone · 2011-09 · Joke / meme
Sasha baron Cohen pitched his ice cream glove to a bunch of vc's... [VIDEO] (not exactly what you had in mind...)
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