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The Aristocrats

Sometimes buzz can kill the preemptive feelings one has about a film. It’s a funny thing, but buzz makes the uneducated excited and the educated cranky. The more a person hears about a film he or she wants to see, the more likely that person is going to have to sit through the film with the most annoying of theater goers. Besides how often is buzz really that accurate? Buzz makes bad films seem good and good films, well; it gives me an opportunity to look at them through a finely tuned microscope. However, in the case of The Aristocrats, buzz, it seems, happens to be right on the money.

Forget what you have heard, forget the NC-17, and forget that you may have even heard a joke told on occasion. Forget everything, because you’ve never heard it as funny as this. For 90 straight minutes, director Paul Provenza takes the viewer through arguably some of the filthiest, raucous, and truly vile comments by 100 of the funniest people alive.

Most of the participants in the film would agree it’s not that funny of a joke and they’d be right. But what is funny is watching comedians ramble on, twist and otherwise try to out filth each other, which is primarily what the joke was intended for. To let comedians make other comedians laugh; as though they have to be on some special diet of each other’s words. This is what makes the film so funny and so special, that every comedian is constantly working not for an audience, but the respect and laughter of his or her peers.

Written by: Kevin Yeoman

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