I love comedy. So when I heard about “The Aristocrats”, the documentary about the dirtiest joke in the world, I thought I’d give it a chance if only because it had an amazing array of comedians featuring – from Jerry Seinfeld to Drew Carey to George Carlin to Don Rickles.
Too bad it’s just not a funny joke. I mean, I get the premise – you have the set up, the middle and the punch line. The key to the joke is that the middle section can be ANYthing you want it to be – and the object is to be as grotesque and horrifying and foul with your subject matter as you can possibly be. Then you say the punchline and it’s supposed to be a funny joke.
Not so much. I was willing to take a chance with the movie despite it’s obviously shock humor, but the point is that the movie was just boring. Seriously. I think Ace wrote the same thing when he saw the movie a few months ago. How long do you need to sit and watch people discuss the same joke over and over and over again?
Answer: 27 minutes. We turned it off after that. Not because of the joke’s subject matter but because it just wasn’t an interesting movie about comedians and their secret joke that’s been told to each other for decades.
1 star for having Cathy Ladman in it – I didn’t even know she still DID comedy but I used to love her.
Never having heard of the movie (which is strange, because I adore comedy too)… I just looked it up on IMDB.
From the description, it actually sounds pretty painful to watch… because the joke doesn’t sound very funny.
From your review, that seems to be the case.
Did *anyone* make it even slightly funny?
(WEIRD! My comment wouldn’t post at first because, instead of “adore comedy” I had “l0ve comedy” – with an “o” instead of a “0” of course”. It said “l0ve com” was “questionable content. BWAH??)
Dell, NO ONE made the joke funny. I think it’s impossible to make it a funny joke.
As for the comment restriction – I use MT-Blacklist which allows me to mark spam comments and their URLs in order to delete and then restrict them from posting at my website again. Obviously that particular website once decided to spam Cootiehog and got put on the list.
I’m with you. I looked up the joke online when the movie came out and I just don’t see the humor in it.