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July 31, 2005

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The Aristocrats is very funny, which isn't surprising considering it features 100 comedians retelling the world's dirtiest joke. The storytellers have such zeal for this crude tradition and it's fun to compare attempts at Most Clever Analysis.

Slate has some background on the Behind The Joke. You can go to cartmanthearistocrat.com to watch South Park's profane version (Win Media ... make sure you have headphones).

The doc's producer Penn Jillette tells Time Out New York:

The whole idea came from a discussion of bebop. In a very real way, it's a bebop film -- and the jazz people that I know who have seen it get it much faster than the comedy people.
In the movie he also makes some analogies to Coltrane, but don't worry ... I'll spare you more jazz. Instead, let's celebrate obscenity with Dirt McGirt. This Elton John/Kiki Dee cover has appeared on some mix tapes since ODB recorded it with Macy Gray last year. Earlier this month it was released on 12". Dirty sounds delightfully wasted. Enjoy:

Ol Dirty Bastard - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Feat Macy Gray)" (MP3 Link Removed)

Related: A preview for Sarah Silverman's Jesus Is Magic ran before the movie. We saw her one-woman show of the same name and loved it. Watch the trailer here.

Posted at 6:13 PM




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I really want to see this movie, and I really want to see sarah silverman naked.

Posted by: MaG at 07/31/05 7:27 PM | Reply
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i wanna see this movie real bad, but now i wanna see Jesus is Magic more.

Posted by: max at 07/31/05 7:42 PM | Reply
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I almost can't even believe The Aristocrats is coming to my shitty little family-friendly local theater, but it is (not until September, though).

Posted by: Paul at 07/31/05 8:20 PM | Reply
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If all's you got in your town is an AMC theatre, you're $#!+ outta luck, cuz they ain't playing this yuk(yuck)-fest.

Posted by: Blu at 07/31/05 10:28 PM | Reply
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Yes
This post has it all
a coy looking sarash silverman and ODB singing elton john
He's alomost as good as the dioabolical Biz Markie singing "bennie and the jets"

Posted by: olexicon at 07/31/05 10:38 PM | Reply
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off topic, but why haven't people been talking about the prosaics break up? with only the EP released.. i think we've all lost something. sigh.

Posted by: chadwicksaid at 08/01/05 12:05 AM | Reply
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i saw both of these films a few months ago and the aristocrats is a lot lot lot funnier than jesus is magic

Posted by: keith at 08/01/05 1:54 AM | Reply
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Black people really don't tip.

Posted by: Rachel at 08/01/05 5:34 AM | Reply
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"Black people really don't tip."

I hope this was a joke. And it's not even a funny one if it is. But I guess you feel it's okay to make those types of accusations, because "black people don't read Stereogum." Think again.

Posted by: Nocturne at 08/01/05 8:04 AM | Reply
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That joke by Cartman really turned me on.

Posted by: matt at 08/01/05 9:18 AM | Reply
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This is most certainly not the place to talk about that crappy band breaking up, my friend. There are places to do such things. Go there. Run like the wind, little one!

Posted by: Uri at 08/01/05 11:02 AM | Reply
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Oooh ... Conspiracy theory.

Posted by: stereogum at 08/01/05 12:53 PM | Reply
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CARTMAN never fails to keep things exciting...

and this ODB track is a total trainwreck i could watch over and over.

Posted by: cesar at 08/01/05 12:54 PM | Reply
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Nocturne. Dude. Laugh.

Posted by: cc at 08/01/05 2:55 PM | Reply
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The link to the ODB song is broken. Help! I am DYING to hear it!

Posted by: dude! at 08/01/05 2:59 PM | Reply
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"Jesus Is Magic" is hysterical. I have watched it about 5 times now and it still makes me laugh. Some of the material is fairly old stuff that she's done for years ("Please let them find semen in my dead grandmother's vagina!"), but it is all still great. If anything, it's too short, clocking in at just 70 minutes or so.

My favorite song is the one that she sings in a nursing home --- "No, it's not cold in here...you're just dying..." she sings in front of many frightened looking senior citizens.

Posted by: Shiv at 08/01/05 4:10 PM | Reply
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i love sarah silverman

Posted by: tj at 08/01/05 8:14 PM | Reply
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yeah but, Black people really don't tip. Maybe not all, but a hell of a lot to warrant a joke.

Posted by: fj at 08/02/05 6:55 PM | Reply
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don't get mad at me. be mad at the blacks. that don't tip.

Posted by: Rachel at 08/03/05 12:06 AM | Reply
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I'll admit, you do have a point after all. Blame it on my annoyance of hearing every other day or so about something that "black people do/don't do". My apologies for snapping at you.

Posted by: Nocturne at 08/03/05 9:30 PM | Reply
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> "Jesus Is Magic" is hysterical. I have watched it
> about 5 times now and it still makes me laugh.

dude... you have a torrent for it? do share!

Posted by: jk at 08/07/05 10:44 AM | Reply
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I heard that oprah just did a show recently about how black people don't tip. Is that true?

Posted by: voodoo at 11/18/05 7:29 PM | Reply
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I would take every single stereotype about black people (don't tip, lazy, crack addicts, criminals) as long as I could have a dick a size of the black man's.

Posted by: honk at 12/04/05 3:19 PM | Reply
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