The dirtiest joke ever told — and the movie that tells it

[NYCGirl]

I'm so looking forward to this film — and the fact that Michael Medved HATES it makes me very happy!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/movies/23aris.html

How do you sell a movie about the dirtiest joke ever told?

Note to reader: None of the good parts of the joke will be told during the course of this article. Or in any of the ads. Or in the trailer. In fact, much of the content of the movie, a documentary called "The Aristocrats," is basically unrepeatable in just about any mainstream public forum.

Which is the essence of the problem.

—snipped—

Still, the "funny human beings" in the film - famous comedians from Robin Williams to Chris Rock to Phyllis Diller to Jon Stewart - are not merely swearing, as Mr. Jillette said. They're telling their versions of a joke that involves every imaginable form of sexual perversion in graphic detail, including but not limited to incest, scatology, bestiality and sadism. Rabelais would blush.

[mark414]

1. ohhh i want to see this

sounds like an all star comedy line up

[NYCGirl]

2. Check out this cast...

http://tinyurl.com/8t89u

Even Lewis Black, the Smothers Brothers, Harry Shearer, Bill Maher, Paul Krassner (!), and the long-lost Emo Phillips!

[lateo]

3. Wow...

Looks good.

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. Michael Medved is a numbskull.

He's a film critic that hates Hollywood. It's like a chef that hates French cuisine. And I swear he intentionally gives the crappiest films ever made good reviews to make a contrary statement.

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. A girl, a boy, their parents, and a dog...

go to a talent agency....

{improv most heinous sexual acts you can imagine}


Agent: What's that act called?

Family: The Aristocrats!

[mark414]

6. for anyone who wants to hear the joke...

http://www.campusug.com/main.php?page=video

scroll down a little more than halfway and look for the "Cartman joke" (cartman from south park that is).

[DS1]

7. That clip has me in tears every time

Dammit Kyle I said hold on a minute!

[Wapsie B]

8. Cool.

Omg that was funny, especially having Cartman tell it.
:rofl:

The fact that Medfly hates it is all the more reason to see it.

[Trigger Hippie]

9. Sounds like a good movie...

And NYCGirl, love the Keith Olbermann baseball card. I've had a crush on him since SportsCenter. :9

[NYCGirl]

10. From the Hollywood Reporter:

That last paragraph is why I feel this film is so important now.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000760750

The Aristocrats

By James Greenberg

PARK CITY -- The Firesign Theatre used to do a bit about Dial-a-Dirty-Joke. A guy on a bad acid trip would dial a wrong number and get the dirty joke instead.

Well, that's what "The Aristocrats" is like. It's a nonstop dirty joke you can't escape from, told by more than 100 of the greatest comics in the world. The only thing to do is sit back and laugh until it hurts. Obscene, disgusting, vulgar and vile, "The Aristocrats" might be the funniest movie you'll ever see. Audiences are bound to flock to theaters to see what all the talk is about, and later the film is destined to become a classic video item.

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But the most respected rendition, the piece de resistance of dirty joke telling, has to be Gilbert Gottfried's bravado rendition at a roast for Hugh Hefner at the New York Friars Club just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001. In his high-pitched voice, he just goes on and on, heaping one obscenity on another. Hefner himself looks a little squirmy on the dais, but the other comics are falling off their seats.

—snipped—

So what you get is the real thing, the essence of comedy without artifact. At a time when people are so careful about what they say, it's a joy to experience freedom of expression taken to the limit.