The Aristocrats
 

Can someone PLEASE tell me what the joke is? I feel so alone in my cluelessness!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

Is it a bunch of different jokes and they are trying to determine which one is the raunchiest? Funniest? Grossest? What? Or is it one joke told different ways? Or one punchline? GGGGGAAAAAAAHHHHH!

I heard a bit about this on the radio this morning. It is a bunch of comedians who each tell the same joke in their own way.

It's a joke that's too filthy for even me, I'll tell you that. ;]

"As the joke goes, the man continues to describe to the talent agent any and all varieties of lewd acts that can be performed on a stage with all of his family members. And when I say ALL lewd acts- I mean every smutty, obscene, disgusting sexual and/or bodily function that you've never admitted to even flirting with thinking about (kinda like talkback, haha). And yes, I did say that said man is talking about said family- dog and all. At the end of the usually lengthy description of the worst kind of multiple violations imaginable, the talent agent asks the man what he calls the act to which the man replies, "the aristocrats."

Yes, the joke itself is hardly a knee slapper in the context here. The beauty part is that whoever tells the joke has license to tell it in any filthy way they deem acceptable...er, um, unacceptable I guess. In a staggering example of editing genius by Emery Emery, we get to see dozens of comedians tell their own version of The Aristocrats."

I posted about it a few weeks ago, Paula. :laugh:

It's an in-joke amongst comedians. There is no real joke in the traditional sense because it's different whenever someone tells it; the only thing that's the same is the beginning of it and the end of it. The person telling it is supposed to fill in the middle of it with his or her own "version of events," so to speak. All versions of it are incredibly disgusting, so I don't recommend that the weak of heart or easily offended Google it.

I have a video of Gilbert Gottfried telling it and it churned my stomach AND made me laugh hysterically at the same time.

If you look for it, you can find the animated version the guys from South Park did for the documentary. It's actually tame in comparison to other ones I've heard, but I can't post the link. :o

It's not a joke that comedians tell publicly, it's a joke that goes back to the early days of Vaudeville when comedians would gather together in groups and each would take turns telling a variation of it. It was created for comedians to test the mettle of other comedians. The entire thing isn't necessarily supposed to be funny, it's a forum for comedians to practice pacing, testing their audience, and exploring their imagination.

I know about the joke, its history and uses, but I still don't get "The Aristocrats!" part. Is it a dig at blueblood society?

Or is the title of the show being pitched intended to be moot after hearing all the rest? :shrug:

Irony
 

My understanding is that the point is (among comedians) that anything can be funny, it just depends on how you tell it. As horrendous as some of these are, they would be funnier if someone funny was telling it. But yeah, it was kind if an in-joke thing, not really meant for public consumption.

And yeah, it is a dig at the bluebloods. They describe this filthy, perverted, unimaginable scene, and say, "We're the Aristocrats." It's been said that it's kind of an out-dated reference, and that for the current times you could insert any disliked group that holds prestige and power. "We're The Republicans," or something like that.

Exactly. The comedian telling it runs through a litany of the most vile and shocking things their mind can muster and when the agent asks what they call their act, they say "The Aristocrats!"

Lol
 

How did I miss it? I'm usually captivated by your posts. :cool:

Sorry, I did do a search, but I must have pulled a Strand & spelled something wrong.

:laugh: You make me blush.

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showth...ht=aristocrats

I so have to see this. Will it be in most theaters?