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Up_All_Night
03-12-2005, 12:08 AM
Has anyone else seen this movie?

Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends--who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Cary to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman--to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their their own versions of world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque, too extreme to be performed in public, called The Aristocrats.


I just watched it before, it was entertaining, but yeah.... The joke, isnt overly funny, but thats not the point, the way they basically didnt even let anyone uninteruppted tell the joke was shit.
The South Park telling of the joke was the best, partially because it was uniterupted. The Gilbert Gottfried telling, the way they intercut it with people talking about how great his telling of the joke was, ruined the whole bit.

I enjoyed watching the film, some funny stuff, but it was disapointing.

anyone else seen it have thought?

Scumbag
11-01-2006, 04:06 PM
So let me get this straight.

They take a funny joke that can be told in 2 minutes.. and made a fucking movie about it ?

Up_All_Night
11-01-2006, 08:04 PM
yeah, but of different comedians telling it, the jokes basically an adlib joke, some telling apparently have gone on for an hour or so... but the movies basically primarily people talking about the joke, and they ruin the good tellings... so yeah

sullomate
11-01-2006, 08:13 PM
It's a good laugh (and great to hear the dad from 'Full House' swear) but I have to agree with you that a few times I wish the jokes weren't interrupted as they lost their flow. Definately worth seeing though.

Canalien
12-01-2006, 01:46 AM
Definitely a shame they don't play the jokes straight through each time... although that would fuck up the pacing of the doco. Bob Saget's version is excellent. Billy Connolly's interesting observations on the joke are brilliant. Some renditions really suck. The girl in the hot tub with thatcrusty old guy is shameless.