Anyone Here Seen The Aristocrats?

[querelle]

I borrowed it from a friend yesterday and am quite disappointed. Just all these comedians telling the same sick joke over and over with slight variations. It kind of reminded me of a bunch of adolescents trying to out gross one another. What a waste of time. Glad I didn't have to pay to see it.

Q

[devilgrrl]

1. You have to admit that Wendy Leibman's version is the funniest...

I didn't think it was that bad.

[Patiod]

2. Ditto - saw it on HBO in my hotel room

Glad I saw it, given that I wasn't going anywhere and nothing else was on, and I didn't have to pay for it.

I thought a few of the takes on it were very funny - the mime, the card trickster, the one woman who did the joke backwards (the routine was clean, but the title was the "#%$%*#ing-#O$#ers", and a few other variations). But the scatological and disgusting stuff was all-guy. I think only guys and Lisa Lampanelli find that kind of thing side-splittingly funny.

[devilgrrl]

3. "the one woman who did the joke backwards"

That's the one that cracked me up!!!

That was the perpetually hilarious Wendy Liebman

[SteppingRazor]

4. I thought some comedians were really funny, others not

:shrug:

[MamaBear]

5. I actually liked it a lot.

I was prepared not to like it, but I love comics. The joke itself isn't particularly funny -- so they could tip the punch line in the opening moments. It was an essay on boundaries, those of the comic, and yours, too. At what point do you want to run from the room? At what point do your find yourself laughing at something you don't think is particularly funny?

Maybe seeing it in a room full of people made a difference.

FWIW: I loved Gilbert Gottfried at the roast given shortly after 9/11. Don't know why; not sure I want to go there.

:shrug:

[NYCGirl]

9. That's OK.

I love Gilbert, too. He's a comedy god. (And there's a lot of comedians who'll back that up.)

[noonwitch]

6. I'd rather watch "The Aristocats"!

It's such a cute movie.

[martymar64]

7. I liked it!

Especially the Bob Saget segment. It shattered forever my view of him as the dad in Full House.

[Arugula Latte]

13. He's actually known for working "blue" as they say.

Who would have thought? :shrug:

His was my favorite, too.

[Beaverhausen]

14. Bod Saget was nasty! He kept going and going...

The film went on way too long for me but it was amusing for a while.

[yurbud]

18. seeing Bob Saget be nasty is funny cuz you don't expect it after that

sickly sweet show he did with the troll doll twins.

[yurbud]

19. I liked the Larry Storch from F Troop version.

[Ekirh]

8. I enjoyed it. . .

Although I had to keep pausing it cause my Grandma kept entering the room to ask me something. . . (She knew what I was watching.. I guess I was just trying to be respectful)

The Mime one had me laughing hard.

[deucemagnet]

11. I'm going to have to see it now...

...because I have a hard time believing that a mime could make me laugh! :)

[NYCGirl]

10. I loved it. Saw it in the theater first, and the whole audience was in

hysterics!

[wbattle]

12. I enjoyed the movie - but I have a warped mind

The joke isn't meant to be standup material. It's comics' idea of a fraternity secret handshake, and a test of their writing and monologue skills. That's why the mime version packs an unexpected wallop with me. Martin Mull's version is pretty good, but I'd pay to see Richard Belzer take a run at it.

[NYCGirl]

23. Oh, me too. I love the Belz.

Here's something I happened across on the internets — the Jewish Forward's article about Belzer's Friar's Club Roast (which, it seems, was the one before the Hefner Roast where Gilbert Gottfried told the aristocrats joke). It's obviously cleaned up, but pretty good.

I especially like this from Al Franken:

Then, turning to the evening's honoree, Mr. Franken declared: "Belzer wears dark glasses because he doesn't want people to see he's asleep most of the time.... His 'Bob Dylan as an old Jew' bit was funny in 1973. Who knew he'd still be doing it after Bob Dylan actually became an old Jew?"

http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.06.29/fast3.html

"Richard Belzer never pandered to the crowd — he never went for the laughs," said veteran comedian Dom Irrera. "Richard could bomb in front of a crowd and make them think they were stupid."

"I never had 75 opening acts open for me before," the irrepressible Gilbert Gottfried told the audience. He then thanked them for coming to see him and proceeded to tell five unprintable jokes that would have brought a blush to the face of Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner (who will be the guest of honor at the next Friars' Club Comedy Central roast in October).

"It is better to receive than to give," pontificated Professor Irwin Corey, lapsing into his trademark diatribe of intellectual gibberish as two men carried him off the stage — literally.

Mr. Belzer got his turn at the podium, beginning with a Ronald Reagan impression and then taking shots at his tormentors: "Freddie Roman: Jack Ruby had a longer television career than you did. Dom Irrera is to comedy what Anne Frank is to yodeling." And: "What would a Friars' roast be without Jeffrey Ross? Funnier." And to Mr. Levinson: "What could you say about someone who launched Paul Reiser's career, except — What were you thinking?"

[catbert836]

15. I have no desire to

I've read some of the joke's variations online, and most of them aren't funny at all to me. They're just gross for the sake of gross. A movie would be even more stomach-turning.

[Guy Fawkes]

16. I am a sick and depraved human being...

I saw the movie in theaters and I loved it. Though I will admit, the line was crossed more than a few times. I don't mind- that's the point of The Aristocrats joke- crossing the line as far as possible.

[yurbud]

17. Didn't totally lose me until comics telling in front of babies

[devilgrrl]

20. Here's the best version of the joke...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfaKld5ahfw&search=wendy%20liebman

[TheMightyFavog]

21. I damn near pissed my pants with the mime version.

That was just insane.

[NJ Democrats]

22. Yup, I saw it.