The Aristocrats - A Review

5 Stars - obscenely fascinating

A family, Mother, Father, Son, Daughter and cute dog walk into a talent agents office and the Father says "have we got an act for you?" so the talent agent says "okay what is it?" and the father says "we'll show you" then if I were to continue the few people do read my blog would leave out of the horrific nature of the joke... but suffice to say they do an act involving as many horrible things as the person telling it can think of, including rape, bestiality, scatology, necrophilia, any number of bodily fluids, and if you feel like it a tap-dance. The agent then says "well what the hell do you call an act like that?" and the father says "the aristocrats"

This is a documentary about that joke and the various ways people have of telling it and its cultural significance between comedians.

The stories are obscene and to be honest more often than not the joke isn't funny. But it is really interesting, and normally I don't like humour based entirely on vulgarity, but the aristocrats joke makes it a challenge to see if you can think of one... its amazing.

Topped off with some very big name comedians like Robin Williams, Sarah Silverman, Whoopi Goldberg, the cast of South Park and, the absolute master of the joke, Gilbert Gottfried this is a very fun documentary... that may leave emotional scars.

"They might have to clean this up for TV"

To sum up, those with a sick fascination about the boundaries of offensive humour, give it a watch