
Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends--who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman--to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque too extreme to be performed in public, calle... (Full plot summary below)
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Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends--who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman--to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats.
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| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergIt's probably the most astute and insightful look at professional comedy that I've ever seen. And dear sweet lord is it FUNNY! |
| eFilmCritic.comDavid CorneliusThis is perhaps the finest tribute to the art form I have ever seen. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottAn essay film, a work of painstaking and penetrating scholarship, and, as such, one of the most original and rigorous pieces of criticism in any medium I have encountered in quite some time. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanfordshows that a simple story can turn into a kind of verbal jazz... each performer can put his or her own personal stamp on it, making it longer or cruder or more sophisticated. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenIt's hands down the funniest of the year, both pushing the boundaries of bad taste and exploring how those boundaries keep shifting. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsJeffrey ChenFor anyone who can take it, this is one of the smartest and funniest movies of this year. |
| Greenwich Village GazetteEric LurioIf there's any justice in the World, this'd get a "Best Documentery Feature" Oscar (R) |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarA scabrously funny meditation on the idea of shock. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonThe dissection of a joke is never pretty, but it has never been nastier than it is in The Aristocrats. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...about the cultural practices of a small and needful tribe, a vanishing breed called the comic, about the damage their famously tortured psyches sustain. |