Will you see "The Aristocrats"?

[jmowreader]

For those who don't know...

Every year, the Friars Club of New York holds a celebrity roast. Essentially, it is a time when comedians of all stripes gather to drink spirits, smoke large cigars and tell filthy jokes at the expense of the guest of honor.

In 2001, the Roast honored (or abused, depending on your viewpoint) Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner.

The last comedian standing was Gilbert Gottfried. I think Mr. Gottfried should be thrown in jail for deception: he claims to be a comedian yet he's not funny. Anyway...at this gala event, which was held in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Gottfried stood up and cracked a joke about flying into the side of the Empire State Building.

Said joke went over like a fart in church, so he immediately came back with a very ancient routine about a family who went to a talent agent claiming to have a great act. When he asked to see it, they immediately went into a huge incestuous orgy right in the middle of the agent's rug. "Great act, what's it called?" 'The Aristocrats.'

And now someone's made a documentary of 100 comedians telling THEIR version of this joke. It will be in theatres sometime this month.

Which is all well and good, except for one little problem: In the words of the great stand-up comic Eddie Murphy, "that shit ain't funny, motherfucker."

They claim it's the "filthiest joke you've never heard." Well, that may be but it's not even close to being the filthiest joke out there. Such classic Sam Kinison gags as the AIDS joke, his medically-correct AIDS joke, and his family entertainment joke are much, much worse. In fact, I'd daresay that Sam Kinison's medically-correct AIDS joke is the filthiest joke that has ever been told.

So...ya goin?