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The Aristocrats (2005)
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 Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman, just to name a few) to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque routine, too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats". (read more)
| Release Date: | July 29th, 2005 |
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The Aristocrats Movie Review by AJ  (4/14/2006) |
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The idea behind The Aristocrats is an intriguing one: Many different comedians tell the same joke ending with the same punchline, but the way they get there is completely different. Unfortunately for Provenza and the many different funnymen (and women) that appear, the joke itself is not actually funny. Very few of the...
(complete The Aristocrats review by AJ)
| The Aristocrats Movie Review by Seth (2/17/2006) |
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This is not a movie about jokes, or one joke. It is about storytelling. Storytelling is an art and a vastly underrated one in my opinion.
In THE ARISTOCRATS, we get to see the art of storytelling, and it's as close as you might come to a "control" in testing the quality of the storyteller. It is delightful to watch...
(complete The Aristocrats review by Seth)
I watched this to hear the joke. No, I've never heard it. George Carlin gave what is probably the original or basic version and I almost left right then.
If I had, then I would have missed the variations. I am not saying that any of them were worth listening to, but I guess you have to know. It's like looking at a car...
(complete The Aristocrats review by Movie Addict)
Finally proof that comedians are just a massive group of friends who have been passing down in-jokes over the decades like the Skull and Bones pass down presidencies. This movie is simply a lot of talking heads documented telling the same joke, the history of that joke and their experiences telling that joke. But these...
(complete The Aristocrats review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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