Have you seen HBO’s “Da Ali G. Show”? Oh, man, you gotta! “Ali G.” is the creation of a British comedian named Sacha Baron Cohen. Ali G. is a Cockney “wigger,” a hip-hop white gangsta clod who has his own interview show. In the taped episodes now running, Ali G. gets interviews with serious figures like Boutros-Boutros Ghali, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, ex-Atty Gen. Dick Thornburgh, et al. He straight-facedly asks them outrageously stupid questions (e.g., he asks ex-CIA director James Woolsey to return to the grassy knoll in Dallas to explain who really shot J.R.). What’s so great is that these poor interview subjects don’t realize they’re being put on, and answer his questions with respect. It’s a great send-up of what’s happened to political journalism since Bill Clinton went on MTV and answered some yo-yo’s question about his underwear.

Cohen has two other characters: Bruno, an outrageously gay Austrian fashion reporter; and Borat, a comically naive, sex-mad TV reporter from Kazakhstan, who travels the U.S. exposing himself, so to speak, to American culture. This show is ribald comic genius. Click here and here for videoclips and other info. New half-hour episodes come on every Friday night (Saturday morning) at 12:30 a.m. EDT, but they repeat throughout the week (see the schedule here).