This is sort of what Cohen does.

He has three well known Characters Ali Gee (the hip hop idiot), Borat (the foreign idiot), and Bruno (the gay idiot).

In all cases humor comes as much from his foils as it does from his own character's idiocy.

You can make a broad assessment of his work, that by playing the idiot, putting on the hip hop, foreign, or gay minstral show, he is infact mocking his foils. He presents that these are people who can't see through his clear "black face", and think he is a real life foreigner, hiphop reporter, or gay german (I think as many jokes are about him being german as they are about him being gay).

It all comes from a very broad british sensibility. Such ethnic and cultural mockery is far more accepted in Britan at least based on the programming of the BBC. And I think he likely really wants at it's core to be a mockery of those who can't see through his facade. However, as a comic he does go for the cheap laugh, just as all comics will do, especially when they try to say something bold. It scares a clown (which is what Cohen is in the most honest and noble meaning of the word) when people don't laugh but simply say "my how clever". So he will put in bits that do nothing to mock his foils but let us all laugh at the funny foreigner, hiphoper or gay man.

The second you put on the gay fashion reporter hat, the jokes are going to go south very fast. And I get the feeling from the clips and previews that Mr. Humphries had more subtlty than Bruno (though of course as a German, subtlety is not a strong character trait).

Certainly that's in North Africa, where the Hyena Coddelers have done nothing to prevent this tragedy, but how safe is the U.S. really?

Did you know that so called "conservationists" have brought numerous these killers to American soil? Did you know that in zoos across this great nation we are actually, providing food housing and medical care to these monsters who senslessly kill 50 humans every year!

Sure they say we're safe, that the zoos are kept locked and wild animals almost never escape, ALMOST never? Almost never might as well be Allways ever!

We must do something about this now before we like North Africa suffer the horrors of Hyenas running wild in our streets.

Really, you're going to go there about a little girl crying over her dead dad.

You know...the weirdness of MJ, really isn't that weird.

Honestly, let's put the allegations of which he was aquitted and repeatedly defended of by other children and adults who attended these events, what was so weird.

He had a lot of plastic surgery done. You do know the guy's face was burned off at one point right? You never noticed that alot of that plastic surgery occured shortly after that accident?

He dressed funny. Well so does prince, and I can't turn on NPR without hearing what genius that Minnesotan is.

He had a zoo and a roller coaster in his back yard. You know if I had nearly unlimited funds I might too, and if you wouldn't could you say you wouldn't have some kind of crazy thing you loved in your back yard? If you like art, and you're rich you buy an original Matisse, if you like giraffes and roller coasters, well why the hell not. It's a damn sight more respectable than what that loveable old guy down the stree (hugh hefner)filled his backyard with.

He loved the tabloids, and the media, and participated gleefully in the pushmepullyou game of paparazzi. Again name one celebrity who really doesn't do this, Sean Penn doesn't have to punch anybody, but he does because it gets him going and gets his fame quotiant up by a notch.

The guy's weirdness was generally speaking relativly minor, and from everybody who had no monitary gain in saying so, he was actually an incredibly decent guy.

So he owned a chimp, tell me one guy who hasn't at one time in his life dreamed of having chimp, and I'll tell you about the guy who lied to you about dreaming of having a chimp.

So, yeah, if you want to believe that he touched kids, that's fair to not like MJ over it. Just like, if oy want to believe Obama was born in Saudi Arabia, you're free to not like him over that.

But if you actually look at the facts on the ground, we've seen weirder.

Oh, and about buying the elephant man's bones. I hear he did it to give the poor guy a proper burrial. It'd be a shame to spend your whole life as a side show (which even after being introduced to london society he essentially was) and then to spend your death similarly on display to be gawked at and gasped at by people who never took the time to understand that there was a person there too.