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SO WRONG: D.J. Qualls (from left), Dan Bakkedahl and Jim Jefferies star in the FX series, “Legit,” premiering tonight. (
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‘Legit,” FX’s new series starring Aussie Jim Jeffries, as Jim Jeffries, is wrong on every level. It’s crude, shocking and politically incorrect on a cosmic level. And that’s just part of what makes “Legit” so damned funny.

But make no mistake, this isn’t shocking-just-to-shock stuff.

I mean, seriously? How often have you seen a series devoted to a drug-loving, drunken, failed comedian, who takes in his roommate Steve’s paralyzed brother, Billy, who is dying from muscular dystrophy — after taking him to a cat house and discovering that the brother has a huge, well, it ain’t heart.

After the hookers get a load of what Billy’s got going on, Jim realizes that the guy could be a chick magnet. “Here comes the cripple and the good guy,” he declares, happily.

Like I said, so, so wrong and so, so funny.

For example, when Steve (Dan Bakkedahl) and Jim break Billy (D.J. Qualls) out of the nursing home, they get stuck with his small, mentally handicapped roommate, Rodney (Nick Daley), who thinks he’s Donald Trump. He keeps yelling, “You’re fired!”

Well, he keeps yelling it until he gets high at a party at Jim’s house with, yes, more hookers.

Jim is a loser, and isn’t working stand-up very much, and he’s trying to straighten up, but that will never happen, so he dishes out advice to Steve, Billy and Rodney.

In Episode 3, he teaches Billy how to meet women on the Internet. Even though Jim hates the sounds Australian women make when they have sex, Australia is far enough away for them never to visit, so they Photoshop Billy’s head onto a rock climber.

Also in the cast is Billy and Steve’s mother, Janice (Mindy Sterling), who has a massive collection of porcelain dolls and is disgusted by Steve and Jim but doesn’t want Billy living with her either.

John Ratzenberger, Janice’s henpecked, formerly retired husband, Walter, now works as a greeter at a big-box store because the dolls have bankrupted them.

Finally, there’s Ramona (Sonya Eddy), Billy’s caregiver, who knows what a horrible influence Jim is but — hey — not everybody has enough free time to watch “Toddlers & Tiaras” marathons.

Underneath all that crude, lewd and rude, Jim is actually decent and kind of lovable — for a moron. It’s kind of like “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for poor guys.