The Aristocrats (2005)

Truly Dreadful Film

Better than most people think

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A number of posters have commented that this documentary gives insight into the world/mind of the standup comedian. For people who supposedly earn a living by being funny, I was at a loss to understand why anyone would pay to hear any of these people, 90% of whom you've never heard, for obvious reasons. The whole dreary thing is basically a self congratulatory group of people thinking they're being funny, as they all try to top each other with yet another version of an ancient and incredibly unfunny joke. There are a few funny moments, when a comedian actually tells the joke in a creative or unexpected, imaginative way, but those moments are all too rare. Don't waste your time and money on this thing. There are plenty of videos available that actually show people being funny.

This is simply the most disgusting, horrific, obscene thing I've ever seen or heard! It's so "in-your-face" I couldn't help but stay riveted to it, the entire video and all its sub-sections. The very fact that Penn Gillette & his friend would spend 4 years putting it together, says a lot about how perverse our scociety has become. I Love it! This is precisely the exact stuff my friend & I would dream up and act out in our impromptu comic skits when we were teenagers! Where was Penn Gillette & his recording equipment 40 years ago? I've come to a new admiration of Gilbert Gottfried, until now he ranked just one notch above Pauly Shore on my "can't f$%^&g stand'em" list. But Now I see he KNOWS what he sounds like, how he comes across (no pun intended!) and how to piece together a line and a joke! He's Good! On a somber note, now that George Carlin has passed away, His clips in the video stand in testimony to the elder spokesman of a generation! The performers, one and all, every last one of 'em, get a standing F*** Y*** for their contributions to this classic!

You know how it really takes value off a joke when the teller laughs at the joke him/herself? Well, imagine looking at this for one and a half hours? Try to include the fact that the joke is really bad and that half of the content is people commenting their reactions to other people telling this lousy joke? Well, that's what this movie is all about, and that results in the most boring and least thought-provoking piece of crap I've ever seen on a DVD.If you like to see Hollywood people talking true obscenities, you might get something out of this, but otherwise I suggest skipping this. In any case a couple of minutes from the beginning (or in fact from any part) of the film already show what it's all about.I've rated 280 films on IMDb so far, and this is the only one I've ever given a 1/10.

Rated NR(would be Rated NC-17(or just maybe R) for pervasive strong graphic crude/sexual dialogue).I saw the aristocrats about a year ago on the movie network.I had heard that it was a documentary film about a certain very dirty joke.The point of the joke is to make it as nasty as possible.The film basically has 100 different comedians telling their version of the joke.There is a short scene where Cartman from South Park(voiced by Trey Parker) tells his version of the joke.There are a few very funny versions of the joke but overall the film is very repetitive hearing the same joke just told in a different way.If you're favorite comedian is in this film, you might want to check it out but don't buy it or anything.