If you don't, "Religulous" also offers lots of added-value media clips, including biblical epics and the Yiddish-speaking Native Americans of Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles." Excerpts from the programs of televised evangelists are also favored, the more outrageous the better, none more so than a woman insisting to the audience, "You need a Holy Ghost enema."
Yes, some of his interviewees, like Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), should have known better. And Maher does have the nerve to challenge these people on their beliefs. But he also goes on to mock them mercilessly on camera afterward, and his reliance on skewering people who are no match for him in glibness, persuasiveness or even intelligence finally leaves a sour taste.
