Da Ali G Show

Look, this is one of the funniest shows on television. For the uninitiated, let me tell you what the show is about.

As per Netflix -- Hilarious British comedian and impersonator Sacha Baron Cohen crisscrosses the United States alternating among the three offbeat personalities he plays. Cohen becomes Ali G, the "hip hop journalist" who's really just a white wanna-be rapper; Borat, the gullible newsman from Kazakhstan; and Bruno, the homosexual Austrian fashion plate. Laugh while Ali G, Borat and Bruno discover America and interact with the locals.

Essentially, he gets people to think he is interviewing them. He then asks inappropriate questions or logical statements taken to the extreme. The people he is interviewing then have to be appropriate because: 1. They are on television and 2. They are giving him a break because he is foreign and doesn't have a good grasp of the English language.

I started watching the show when it was on HBO recently. That is the second season and it is hilarious. I love it when he asks an ATF agent "What does ATF stand for?" "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" "What else do you sell?" incredulous look ... good stuff.

I just finished watching the first of two DVD's of his first season...and now I see how the second season was possible.

He is having a conversation with a Catholic Priest who is already frustrated with his gangsta rap character. Ali G asks "Isn't it coincidental that Jesus was born on Christmas?" The priest gets upset and tries to correct him. Ali G then asks "Wasn't Jesus born in a manger?" The priest responds with something like, "Yes... that is the story... the inns were full and he was born in the manger." Ali G responds with "They were full...because it was Christmas!" The priest just gets so flabbergasted.

yes... some of his routines are a bit over the edge but it is the witty ones like the one with the Priest that amaze me the most. He takes logic and twists it so people don't know what to say.

I am giving him much Respek.