British comedian Ali G once interviewed George Paton, the Orange Lodge Grandmaster in Northern Ireland.
Ali: Would you ever marry a protestant girl?"
George: "I have, yes."
Ali: "Well that is a gesture, no, that is a long way to getting the peace."
George: "Yeah but I'm a protestant as well."
Ali: "Okay, alright, well, so if you weren't married to her, would
you marrying a Catholic girl then?"
George: "Possibly because of my faith I wouldn't."
Ali: "What if she was fit really though? What then?"
George: "Because my religion is so important to me, that's going to be the overriding factor."
Ali: "But what if she had her own car, she had a, you know, sound system, whatever, she wasn't gonna be stealing money from you, whatever. Would you go with her then?"
George: "I think that, you know, I am friends with Roman Catholics, and I have Romen Catholic friends, but..."
Ali: "But would you get jiggy with them?"
George: "It would never come to that, my religion is the most important thing to me."
Ali: "Even if they was really, really fit?"
George: "Yes, yes. That's the bottom line, yes. That's hard for people to understand, but..."
Ali: "Even if she was incredibly the fittest."
George: "Even so, yes."
Ali: "So you is telling me honest that if, like, The Corrs, them
band The Corrs, they came in here now and said they wanted to marry you, you wouldn't just jump and say yes."
George: "Yes, I've got my views, they are important to me."
Ali: "You is telling me you would say no to The Corrs."
George: "Yes, yes..."
Ali: "All three of them?"
George: "Yes."

[Among other classic Ali G moments:
* asking Whittaker why Lady Diana was "nobbing that Pakistani"
* asking the Bishop of Corsham whether the Virgin Mary was really a virgin: "Me know girls that also say, 'me find me pregnant, me find me pregnant,' you know, 'what happened?' and the mother or whatever say, 'listen girl, you know you've been you been mucking around. 'Ave you been drunk maybe? Don't lie to me.'"]

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