I have only been fully aware Aristocrats jokes for about a year but they kill me. If you don’t know what one is, it is a freeform joke told as a story and the object is to make it as vile as humanly possible while keeping a straight face. It usually involves a family pitching a show to a producer and the audition breaks out into incest, family violence, and god knows whatever else. When the producer asks what the show is called, the family replies “The Aristocrats!”
The first good one that I saw was told by Eric Cartman from South Park but it isn’t on YouTube anymore. Bob Saget (of America’s Funniest Home Videos and Full House fame) tells an Ok one but he can’t keep a straight face and the novelty is mainly with who is telling it.
My unexpected favorite one by far is told be Sarah Silverman in the link below. The is no visual pornography at all but the story is profane so beware.
Stupid question - have you seen the movie? I haven’t so I can’t recommend any standout performances (Gilbert Gottfried tells a great one, if I recall some discussions of the movie correctly), but it’s on my Netflix list - the premise is that a lot of well-known comedians tell their own versions of the joke.
Gottfried’s version from the roast on the Penn production is the centerpiece of the DVD. Shagnasty, you’ve seen the DVD, right? The Sarah Silverman version is from that and the South Park version is on it, too, not to mention George Carlin’s.
My favorite is from the movie. A female comic told it, although I can’t remember which one. She turned the joke around – setting up a nice family scene, with Dad and Mom and kids, completely benign and g-rated. The punchline reveals their name: The Cocksucking Motherfuckers!
Ummm…no I haven’t seen that DVD. I didn’t even know of its existence as a matter of fact. Having small children tends to kill recreational viewing of anything of the adult nature. Anything I see like that has to come from YouTube sadly enough. Actually, I have NetFlix, maybe they have it.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious (seriously). I will check out the recommendations given so far.
Definately get the movie and watch it. Make sure, though, that your children are tightly tucked into bed with at least 2 doors closed between them and the TV and some sort of early-warning system so they can’t walk in on you unawares. It is a feelthy film. My husband (a grown man and a Navy veteran) was slightly scarred after hearing a few of the worst versions (Judy Gold – I’m looking at you!).
I watched the entire Aristocrats film, mainly because I like Penn Jillette, and I thought the only 2 that were even slightly amusing were the previously mentioned “Cock Sucking Mutherfuckers” turnaround, and the one told by Sarah Silverman who told a story as though she was one of the performers, ending with a revelation that [TV personality I’d not heard of before, and can’t recall the name of now] had raped her. The cheerful earnestness with which she recounts it is what really sells it
Those two were the best, but I thought there were a few other hilarious ones. Like the one where the agent says “I like the act, but are you married to the name The Aristocrats?”. The Gilbert Gottfried version at Hugh Hefner’s roast was really good too (and I usually detest him), mainly because of how the other comedians on stage realized what he was doing and started laughing, and he started addressing them, asking if they were following and so on.
Yes, I rented it through NetFlix last year. You owe it to yourself to see it. If you love the joke, you’ll die. And you’ll see sides you never knew existed of comedians you thought you knew. :eek:
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