Cowboy Up!

Sometimes late at night, especially when I'm on the road, I'll watch anything on television. That's why I'm familiar with Da Ali G Show on HBO. The premise is that British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen pretends to be a journalist and asks famous people stupid questions, although if one spends any time watching morning television it sort of negates the whole premise. Ann Curry on the Today Show is every bit as vacuous, uninformed and dim as the Ali G. character, and she's a star reporter!

[ASIDE: Watching Ann Curry interview anyone smarter than a salad bar, i.e., not a Hollywood liberal, is an agonizing experience, on par with watching an 8-year-old recite the Gettysburg Address]

Anyway, Ali G. has found the limits of his comedy, and it's cowboys:

After telling the crowd he supported America’s war on terrorism, he said, “I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards ... And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq.” He then sang a garbled version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

The Roanoke Times reported that the crowd turned “downright nasty.” One observer said “If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him.”

Yippie-ky-yah! There's a cowboy action shooting stage in this.