It’s open to debate whether they’re really the whitest kids you know. But the five wags who call themselves the Whitest Kids U’Know may be among the funniest.

Now this sketch-comedy troupe has snagged a TV series that displays its gift for musical comedy shorts, video send-ups, twisted gags and sketches that will make you laugh — and sometimes squirm.

A rap video starring Hitler (“Triumph of the Ill”); a coquettish doe that flirts with hunters; a hyper mailroom clerk who makes demented movie pitches to studio bosses; even unabashed potty humour — it’s all part of the act.

Composed of Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams and Darren Trumeter, the troupe formed when, by lucky accident, these chaps were all assigned to the same college dorm in Brooklyn seven years ago.

Lately, the Whitest Kids U’Know has been a fixture on the New York comedy scene, and won the Best Sketch Award at the 2006 Aspen Comedy Festival.

You can get to know “The Whitest Kids U’Know” when it premieres on Fuse at 12 p.m. on Tuesday.

Other shows this week to look out for:

|0x95| They’ve been called “a living laboratory of evolution.” The Galapagos Islands are the focus of a three-hour documentary on the National Geographic Channel that explores this remarkable archipelago and the array of wildlife that calls it home, where an amazing 95 percent of its prehuman biodiversity remains intact.

The special also takes viewers back millions of years to revisit the tumultuous creation of these islands, which lie in the Pacific Ocean 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador.

Three years in the making and shot in high-definition, “Galapagos” brings to life the history of the islands while looking toward an uncertain future, as efforts are mounted to preserve their natural balance in the face of human population growth and booming tourism. It airs 9 p.m. tomorrow.

|0x95| What happens when wedded bliss ends bloodily? For one thing: “Til Death Do Us Part,” a new, darkly comic anthology series on Court TV. One spouse kills the other in each of these scripted tales of marriage-gone-wrong, which are drawn from actual cases.

Lending the appropriate bizarre air is filmmaker John Waters, aka “The Groom Reaper,” who serves as on-camera host and eerie commentator.

The 13-episode series premieres Monday at 11 p.m. with a double feature. First, a lecherous middle-aged doctor is engaged in medical malpractice when he marries his willing young receptionist.

Then, a mortician and his bride drive the hearse to their reception — but a few years later, one of them will be riding in the back.

|0x95| A country in pieces, Iraq is being pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. But its disparate groups — Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds — share a common fate in a land ravaged by years of repression and violence.

“Iraq in Fragments” explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis who reflect larger political issues affecting the country.

Part 1 follows Mohammed, an 11-year-old fatherless auto mechanic in the mixed Sheik Omar neighbourhood in the heart of old Baghdad.

Part 2 reveals the inner workings of Iraqi local politics by examining the Shiite political-religious movement of Moqtada Sadr.

Part 3 focuses on Iraqi Kurds as they assert their bid for independence, rebelling against past atrocities of Baghdad rule. Directed by James Longley, the impressionistic film was a Sundance award winner and was nominated for a 2007 Oscar. It premieres 8 p.m. Tuesday on Cinemax.

|0x95| “Through Deaf Eyes,” a new documentary, explores nearly 200 years of deaf life in America. The film compiles American history, family life, education and work from the perspective of deaf citizens, for whom oppression and discrimination have been common experiences.

The film also draws the distinction between the Deaf and the deaf: people who are part of the cultural-linguistic group who use American Sign Language and often define themselves as “Deaf” with a capital “D,” and deaf people who, for a variety of reasons, don’t identify with the Deaf community.

Narrated by Stockard Channing, the film includes interviews with actors Marlee Matlin and Bernard Bragg, as well as other deaf Americans with diverse views on language use, technology and identity. The two-hour “Through Deaf Eyes” airs 10 p.m. on Wednesday on PBS (check local listings).Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore[AT]ap.org