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MAN: The joke leads me down one path
and then it switches the path on me suddenly,
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and it hits me with a hammer.
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It's just, "Here we go, folks."
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You have outstretched yourself when you're
doing it right, on making it as horrific as you can.
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- And bam!
- Fan them with as polite a title as you can.
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- The Aristocrats.
- The Aristocrats.
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- The Aristocrats.
- What?
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I've heard the joke.
But I don't remember what was so bad.
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I remember that I... fainted.
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(Laughter)
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That joke's been around.
The Aristocrats is a classic.
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They told it on the Ni�a or the Pinta or Santa
Maria when Columbus was crossing the ocean.
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I think Lincoln told me, I'm not quite sure.
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I was at the theatre at the time, I was an usher.
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Of all the jokes to do a documentary about,
you chose this one?
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There was the Secret Society -
Chevy Chase, Michael O'Donoghue.
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John Belushi and some others.
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They had this coven of people
who would tell this joke over and over again.
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Chevy Chase supposedly used to have parties.
And the criteria was,
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you had the mom, the dad, the son,
the daughter, and a dog.
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And you had to talk with some combination
of that without repeating yourself.
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If you repeated yourself, you were out.
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The idea was we gotta break a half an hour.
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We gotta get - we gotta make this joke
last more than half an hour.
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I don't know whether they ever did.
O'Donoghue came close.
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But died in the attempt.
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Not well known.
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I heard Michael O'Donoghue did it
for 90 minutes once.
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BILLY CONNOLLY:
It's the only joke I know that people talk about.
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I'm always shocked when people
don't know this joke. It's pervasive.
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It's a burlesque kind of a joke.
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It had been kicked around a lot.
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I remember it -
the same you remember any first.
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Like the first time
you hear a cut from a Lenny Bruce album.
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Shocking! You'd never heard that.
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I heard it from a gentleman
who ran Second City in Chicago.
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...UCLA, working on the humour magazine,
the editor told me the joke.
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- Bill Hicks - that's where I heard it.
- I first heard the Aristocrats while doing blow
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in Catch A Rising Star with Richard Belzer.
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This joke is a friend of every comedian
in the world.
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I first went to the lmprov nightclub
in New York in '73.
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Did some stand-up comedy,
became the manager,
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and got to meet
the best young comedians of that time.
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Got a real education in the comedy world.
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One of the things that was consistent
wherever you went was the...
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Aristocrats joke.
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I had heard about the Aristocrats joke.
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We do comedy
and we work places that have comedy,
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but we're also in the magic world,
so we're kind of observers of the comedy world.
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There was always a secret handshake
of... of a whole culture thing,
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that was, to me,
symbolised by the joke, the Aristocrats.
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I don't think comics should be that proud,
quite frankly,
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about repeating a joke
that's been going on since
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Bud Friedman opened the first Improv
next to the pyramids.
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You dig?
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Comedians didn't tell this kind of joke on stage.
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How many people tell jokes on stage?
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People usually have routines
or they string together small observations.
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You don't do joke-jokes on stage ever.
That's a kiss of death. You're viewed as a hack.
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You know the way those urban legends go?
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People always knew somebody
who saw this guy doing it.
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But I never saw anyone performing it.
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It's a kind of joke you love telling other comics.
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We told them to each other.
Not to do with our act.
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It was the kind of thing that you would share
with the musicians.
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It just remained in the business, swirling round.
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- Funnier stuff happened after the audience left.
- We're different. We're in here. There's no rules.
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Headmaster's home, we had the
dormitory to ourselves. "Wait till you hear this."
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I have a recollection of the joke being told
at about five o'clock in the morning
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for a bunch of comedians.
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You always saved it - like a powerhouse.
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It was one of those toppers you could pull out.
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There was almost like a chorus of the punch
line. "And what's it called?"
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But the jokes that we loved telling,
and the jokes I always loved,
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were jokes that have this body of performance
in the middle.
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It's a show-offy, kind of an inside thing
for performing comics.
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Garry Shandling told it to me as the way I told it,
word for word,
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at the Emo, which is like playing
the telephone game.
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There's the basic framework, but then every
comedian puts his own imprimatur on the joke.
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And really makes it their own.
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I don't know the standard telling of this joke
any more, it's lost.
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Well, it's a vaudeville agent.
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Jay Marshall is the definitive joke-teller on that,
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even though he's not known as a comedian,
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because he is from the variety arts.
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Jay Marshall turns out to be the one who tells
the Aristocratsjoke for the Legman book.
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It's the last story in the book.
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He gets the whole thing across
in a few sentences.
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A vaudeville agent is interviewing acts,
and an act comes in.
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He says, "What do you do?"
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"Well, my wife and I come out and take
our clothes off and we shit on the stage
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and the kids come out and wallow in it."
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He says, "What kind of an act do you call that?"
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He says, "We call it the Aristocrats."
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The joke sucks. You suck for having the idea
of putting this on a documentary.
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I hate the joke.
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A piece of shit stolen... pretend to be humour.
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Although the premise is funny.
Let me just...
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Let me backtrack just a bit.
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Well, it's a perfectly crafted joke.
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A two-word punch line.
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And since the middle is open
you can do anything with it.
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It's like a jazz theme. There's the basic melody
but anybody can improvise on it.
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And I cannot remember for the life of me,
what the details of the act were.
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I just knew as I was hearing it
you could do what you want with it.
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As long as you got to the,
"What do you call the act?" "The Aristocrats."
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You just wanna shock the people
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so when you come back, the juxtaposition
of their name becomes the laugh.
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It's filled with vulgarity.
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Not kind of vulgar, it's... it's revolting.
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It's disgusting, and then the punch line.
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And then the punch line is sort of uplifting.
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The more vulgar it is,
the more ironic becomes the punch line.
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The more grotesqueries, the better of it.
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That's the craft,
the art is how you make that turn.
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That's the thing you can't bottle.
That's a performance thing.
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Guy goes into the agent's office and he says,
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"I've got an act for you. Wait till you hear this."
"Tell me a little about it. What's the act?"
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He says, "My wife and I come out on stage.
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I've taken a lot of medicine,
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prior to the appearance.
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And I've eaten a lot of cabbages and things.
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She lies down on the stage,
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I squat over her, I pull down my pants.
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And I shit in her mouth, it's mostly liquid.
It's like a diarrhoeic thing.
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I try to include corn and things that will not
break down in the digestive system.
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Peanuts, of course.
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I try to get a lot of solid objects
so that's there's a little action too.
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It's not just a stream of brown liquid.
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And it all goes into...
I can hit her mouth pretty well.
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I do have one polyp -
I have a large, kind of a haemorrhoidal polyp
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that sometimes throws my aim off
and I have to...
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It's kind of like Kentucky windage,
but I usually get it.
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I can hear whether it's hitting
the hollow area of her throat.
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So I get as much as I can in there
and then she gargles with it.
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You hear the gargling. She gargles and gargles.
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And then she swallows it. And...
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we're off- it's about five minutes total."
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The guy says, "Oh. What do you call the act?"
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"The Aristocrats."
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- (Laughter)
- I was making that up - I guess you could tell.
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The fun of it is where you improvise
on the grossness,
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doing the John Coltrane version of it.
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This joke was a joy for comics to tell mainly
because it was such a foul chunk of time
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that you could just be describing
the most foul things.
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There's nothing you could come up with
that would be wrong.
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A blank slate, and you get to play.
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You get to play.
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How many new things could you think of
to make this group of people bizarre?
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Whether it's a shuffleboard
up a nice animal's behind,
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or whether people are swimming in manure.
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A young girl comes on stage singing
Nearer My God To Thee
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while juggling torches.
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These are my two children - they pass gas to
the tune of What A Wonderful World, in unison.
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One of the sons is playing a xylophone
with his cock.
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A midget uncle with three dicks
coming out of his head.
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I come out, dressed as Hitler,
in crotchless panties.
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I am catching the ping pong balls
and I am catching them in my ass.
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He comes on my wife's tits. We wait
till it hardens and I chip it off with a chisel.
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- Six midgets come out...
- They have sex in a kiddie pool,
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full of beef entrails and aborted foetuses.
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Little midgets, they all start coming, one by one.
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And shoot thousands of jism
into hundred-dollar seats.
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You know how the fountains at the Bellagio
are coordinated?
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That was what these guys pulled off.
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My grandmother, on the stage, has an abortion.
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Gives birth to a three-pound Shetland pony.
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The kids are Siamese twins,
attached at the ass.
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My grandfather is the jockey.
Comes in third and paid 280.
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The Siamese twins give each other
reach-arounds and jerk each other off.
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I don't know whether the object is to be
as offensive as possible
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or whether use it judiciously in the right places
as a build-up to the punch line.
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I like to explain how to tell the joke -
you already heard the joke.
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So when you wanna tell the joke
you have to make sure it's really filthy.
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Guy goes into a talent agent's and says,
"I've have the greatest act."
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"What's the act?" That's all you gotta memorise.
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You can ad-lib, right up to the punch line.
All you gotta do is remember one word.
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I always make it up, every time I tell it,
something different.
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They would be naked,
something to do with peeing.
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We're high-flying trapeze performers,
we fly over the audience doing triple gainers.
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We piss over the first three rows.
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Include faeces.
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Takes a crap on stage, jumps in the pile of shit.
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They take a big group shit.
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The women slide on their asses
all the way up through this shit.
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We just roll around in the shit.
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And they start skating in the shit.
You know, people skate in shit.
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Dabbles in the shit. Do a little dance.
Dabbles in piss, do a little dance.
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Waddling in the shit and piss
and they're wiping it in each other's faces.
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- One of them takes a shit.
- And everybody slides through it.
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They end up in the splits in the shit.
They go into the splits and have a big finish.
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That's the finish?
I thought they peed on each other.
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Include vomit.
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Gets sick, vomits. Eats the vomit.
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Everybody starts puking.
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One of them vomited,
and it made everybody else sick.
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Wait. Wait. That made everybody sick?
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Hey, shit and pee? No problem.
You add vomit - forget it.
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Scatological... it's edge humour,
pushing the edge of what you can take.
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And once the edge is crossed,
you get hysterical.
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Me and my wife come up on stage.
She takes a dump in this big metal bucket.
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She's got a bucket of shit,
pours on it the guy's head.
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My son, he's three years old.
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This is the part that's adorable.
Takes a bucket of shit, throws it in her face.
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She takes the bucket of puke, shit and piss,
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puts it over her head and starts parading
on stage like a little midget Nazi.
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Such disgusting references, one after another.
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It kind of makes its own gravy, this joke.
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It's a disgusting joke.
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It's shit. But the only reason I could say that
is because I'm really kind of an aristocrat.
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(Laughter)
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Do they actually eat shit at any point
during the act?
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Absolutely.
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Shitting, and eating it.
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She reaches into grandpa's diapers,
pulls out a bowl of shit and eats it like an apple.
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I've heard bringing animals and bestiality into it.
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I forgot the dog. There's a dog too.
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And the dog! Uh-oh!
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Then the dog fucks the girl.
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That's called bestiality. It's in the Bible.
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It's in my diary.
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He says it's in his diary.
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And I knew his dog.
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I've heard er...
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- Maybe we could do a version.
- (Laughs) All right.
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Unbelievable - along with the dog,
the entire family is involved.
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It's a family act which adds
such a fucked-up dimension to it, anyway.
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Include children in the act.
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Unspeakable acts that the children
are performing with and on each other.
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People can get up on stage
if they wanna finger my niece,
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or touch my nephew's penis.
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There should be high-risk behaviour,
mixing of body fluids,
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blood from every hole.
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A lot of you are probably saying,
"Wait. Backtrack a little here.
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Where did the blood come from?
You didn't say anything about blood."
236
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Well, if a guy is fist-fucking his daughter,
who's young and her asshole is pretty small,
237
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and this is a grown man, with a big hand.
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He could be, like, a longshoreman.
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He could have arms like Popeye.
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Where it's like, the arm is like that wide
and her asshole is that small.
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Think about that for a second. I'll wait.
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Well, naturally she's gonna be bleeding.
I'm just making a point.
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The people are abusing each other.
There's incest.
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And all the things that cross lines.
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So you get to play with
people's little danger zones.
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I fucked my wife,
I fucked my sister, my son.
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Everybody's fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
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It's like a Tourette's syndrome joke.
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I'm horrified and yet drawn to it, it's like...
250
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a dog with three legs -
you don't wanna look but you just...
251
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It's a perfect joke.
252
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Just hearing out loud,
descriptions of "giddy shit-covered incest".
253
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And other poems by Maya Angelou.
254
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It is the one joke where you get to invent
every sick act you could imagine,
255
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load it up into this joke and never actually
be accused of gilding the lily.
256
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So the way I heard it was,
it was always a very sweet beginning.
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That was what killed me.
The sweetness of the guy who walks in,
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knocks on this very talented talent agency,
he says,
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"We have an act.
Can I have a moment of your time?"
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"You have one minute. Tell me about your act."
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He says, "Well, it's a very different act.
It's a bit of a novelty.
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Myself, my wife and kids. First I come out.
I'm in a tuxedo, my wife is in a gown.
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The music starts, we do a dance.
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My wife lifts her skirt, I start fucking her.
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She's sucking me.
My son comes in, drops his draws.
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Now he's fucking my wife.
I have a daughter, 15, she comes in.
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My wife is going down on my son,
my son has his arm up my daughter.
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It's a beautiful thing, music comes to a finish.
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We're all fucking, and everybody is just...
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My daughter is on her back,
she grabbing my son and myself in both hands.
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My wife is singing.
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And then we all drop our draws
and take a huge shit on the stage."
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Guy says, "That's a hell of an act.
What do you call yourselves?"
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He says, "The Aristocrats."
275
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So there is the joke, that you get to actually say
somebody had their arm up their daughter.
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Which you don't really hear often.
277
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Some people, when they tell it,
really focus on the faecal matter.
278
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Other people really focus on the incest.
279
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And to me, in my own personal life,
those two are rarely, if ever, separate.
280
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So shock is one only thing that happens.
281
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It comes with it.
The other thing is the art of the joke.
282
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You have to see pee first, instead of shit first.
283
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Then you go to fuck, or then you go to fuck
and then pee and go to shit.
284
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I prefer the pee first.
285
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To me, you've gotta save the scatological
for the end.
286
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If you put it in the middle, you have nothing
left to close. Fuck, fuck, suck.
287
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And then on top of that, took a big shit.
288
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You need that separation, I feel.
Otherwise, it's chaos.
289
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I've got it as incest next to shit-eating.
290
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- Dog-fucking.
- Dog-fucking. I'm all about dog-fucking.
291
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Shit-eating, dog-fucking, incestuous.
292
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Me and my wife go on stage.
We get undressed and I start nailing her.
293
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As I'm fucking my wife
she takes a dump in this bucket.
294
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My son comes out,
he pours kerosene in the bucket, lights it on fire.
295
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Our trained dog Fifi comes out, jumps through
a ring of fire. My son fucks the dog.
296
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My daughter comes out, the dog fucks her.
297
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We all say, "Good night, you've been great."
Standing ovation every time.
298
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It starts with a little dick-sucking.
299
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The gals drop to their knees,
start sucking off the boys.
300
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And let me tell you,
when my seven-year-old daughter
301
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is giving a blow job to my eleven-year-old son,
it's priceless.
302
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And then we move on to the fucking.
303
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But... we move over one.
304
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Now I'm fucking my daughter,
my son is fucking his grandmother
305
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and my father is fucking my wife.
306
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And then the denouement - the butt-fucking.
307
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We move over one more time.
308
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So I'm fucking my mother in the ass.
My son is fucking his mother in the ass.
309
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My father is fucking his granddaughter
in the ass.
310
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The men pull out, jerk off into a dish,
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and the women slurp it down.
312
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It's a real crowd-pleaser. Family act.
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I go on stage, start to jerk off in a shot glass.
314
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My wife comes out, takes a belt of my splooge,
takes off her skirt, shits in a bucket.
315
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My son pulls the shit out of the bucket,
starts juggling it while he's pissing
316
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into the mouth of his older sister,
who is being butt-fucked by the dog.
317
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Grandpa drops his pants,
starts fucking the dog in the ass.
318
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And the show ends with a big circle-jerk
around Grandma.
319
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Here's the kicker. Grandma is dead.
320
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I mean, it has be really filthy dirty - the act.
321
00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,192
It should start off,
let's say it just starts off titillating.
322
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And then it turns pornographic.
323
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Then it starts to be the kind of thing
where if your daughter was involved
324
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you'd have to go and help her,
you know, at any cost.
325
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The police might not even step in.
326
00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,315
And then the talent agent says,
"That's awful. What do you call the act?"
327
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Like he wants to know,
like the name's the important thing.
328
00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,119
I don't understand why he would say that.
It doesn't matter what it's called.
329
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Because no-one is gonna book this show.
330
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Where did these people find employment?
331
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How did they develop this act?
332
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What made them think this was entertaining?
333
00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,715
I mean it's surprising they haven't...
that they're not all in jail.
334
00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:45,909
I mean... and waiting...
335
00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,552
waiting for the death penalty.
336
00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,513
You can put people to death for what goes on
in the best versions of this joke.
337
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Cos you're probably saying,
if you have any sense of human decency,
338
00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:01,796
"Well, why didn't he stop them the minute
he saw the father unzipping his pants?"
339
00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:06,960
And saying, "This is totally wrong. Call the cops.
Something horrible's happening.
340
00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,596
This is a family
who are raping their own children.
341
00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,393
And performing bestiality.
342
00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,750
Why, oh, why, is he allowing this to happen?"
343
00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,313
But that's a whole other story.
344
00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:23,239
But, anyway, he says, "What is it called?"
Because in a joke that's what happens.
345
00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:27,034
There's no legal system at all in play in a joke.
346
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And then the guy goes, "The Aristocrats."
347
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And I always throw in that.
348
00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:34,874
That seems to make the whole joke.
"The Aristocrats."
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- "The Aristocrats."
- Oh, yeah.
350
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- "The Aristocrats."
- (Laughter)
351
00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:42,270
I think it's all in the snap.
352
00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,993
(Laughter)
353
00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:46,029
Here's for Drew.
354
00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,389
- How many people do that when they tell it?
- One.
355
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- I'm the only one?
- Yeah.
356
00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,276
Really? Oh, man. I always, like...
I always tell it like that.
357
00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:54,469
Do they do that or?
358
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- "The Aristocrats."
- "The Aristocrats."
359
00:17:57,120 --> 00:17:58,872
"The Aristocrats."
360
00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,799
- "The Aristo..."
- (Laughter)
361
00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,991
I never make it to the end. I crumble.
362
00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:07,678
I say, "It's the loveliest joke."
363
00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,393
Whoever told it to me,
they finish and are covered in sweat,
364
00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:15,468
and they're covered in come,
and they're covered in shit. And... (Panting)
365
00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,590
(Exhales)
366
00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,552
"What do you call yourselves?"
"The Aristocrats."
367
00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,350
Ah, it's so great.
368
00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,073
- I told you, I at least went like this.
- (Laughter)
369
00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:27,599
"Aristocrats."
370
00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,471
Oh, no, I like...
371
00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,308
That's really all there is to it.
You have to have blood, shit, piss,
372
00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:35,510
and then erm... this!
373
00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:36,834
(Claps)
374
00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:38,836
So this cocksucker... What was it?
375
00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,236
This cocksucker fucks his shit everywhere.
376
00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,111
The cocksucker goes into a fucking...
377
00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,835
and something faecal... Faecal or foetal?
378
00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:48,995
And faecal is...
379
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,838
And the agent is fucking a dog,
the Pope in the corner.
380
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,155
The trouble is, I've never heard this joke.
381
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,397
The whole shit thing, I think it's just...
382
00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,955
The punch line doesn't work. The guy says,
"I've got this act, a family act."
383
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,037
The guy says, "I've got shit everywhere.
I don't want a family act."
384
00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,470
No doubt that could work.
He says, "What do you want?"
385
00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,556
He goes, "Am I bothering you?"
386
00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,357
You do it good. Have you done it?
Give it to me. I'll film you now.
387
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,551
It takes a lot more skill than it looks like
to tell it well.
388
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,158
All right. Here it is.
389
00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,839
Three people walk into
a theatrical agent's office.
390
00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,078
And they say, "We have an act to show you
and we're called the Aristocrats."
391
00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:26,997
Fuck!
392
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,759
A guy goes into a talent agent's office.
People make it elaborate. Doesn't matter.
393
00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,997
It's a steamy, little, horrible, horrible office.
394
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,395
There's barely room... It's so funny whenever...
395
00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,158
Ever been to Joe Franklin's office?
396
00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,590
I've been in this office since 2000 BC.
397
00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,518
I was in a different office
until they condemned the building.
398
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,394
Frank Sinatra sat here, Bette Midler.
Billy Crystal, Michael Jackson.
399
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:50,953
Julia Roberts was my secretary.
400
00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,434
Produced the world's longest-running
TV show here.
401
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:54,799
I'm Joe Franklin.
402
00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:55,955
It's that office.
403
00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,438
Man walks into an agent's office, and it's just
like a desk and a couple of chairs, a telephone.
404
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,756
DUMMY: Stop dancing around, motherfucker,
and tell the fucking thing.
405
00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,553
Phone, you know, square room like a box.
406
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:08,715
All right, already!
407
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,069
You are fuckin' horrible. Tell the joke!
408
00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:12,633
- Tell the thing!
- All right.
409
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,151
My wife comes out in a beautiful evening gown
and plays Tea For Two on a xylophone...
410
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,236
- With her cunt?
- No, no, no.
411
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,556
Then my grandparents come out
and they sing God Bless America.
412
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,194
- It's real patriotic.
- While fucking each other?
413
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,550
Yuck! Ever see an old woman's cunt?
It looks like Silly Putty.
414
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,876
So then they... You killed me.
You're killing me here.
415
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,229
You're a loser. You can't tell a fuckin' joke.
416
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:38,239
My son comes out, I shoot him in the head
and I fuck the bullet hole.
417
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:42,193
Then my daughter comes on stage.
She's a real sexy nine-year-old.
418
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,037
I hit her on the head with an axe handle,
419
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,116
burn her cunt with a curling iron
420
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,799
put a fish hook through my cock,
fuck her, kill her
421
00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,035
and take a shit on her dead body.
422
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,310
That's the kind of delivery you need.
423
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:55,673
Cocksucker.
424
00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,235
I actually stretched it out once
to two and a half hours.
425
00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,953
- But I blew the punch line.
- (Man laughs)
426
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,993
I got all the way to the end.
It involved white slavery and a zeppelin race.
427
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,759
And then at the end, I go, "The Aristocats."
428
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,233
Crats! Argh!
429
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:14,796
It's the Aristocrats, not to be confused
with the wonderful Disney film The Aristocats.
430
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,479
Often, I'd go,
"Be-pa-bada, he's sucking and she's..."
431
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,910
"What do you call yourself?"
"The Aristocats. Oh, no - the Aristocrats!"
432
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:25,476
So people would think that was part of the joke,
that the guy himself got the name wrong,
433
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,830
and people would be saying,
"Why did he say cats and then crats?"
434
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,440
He didn't. I just had a problem.
Which was more absurd.
435
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,519
They go, "Your joke takes 11 minutes to tell,
and you don't understand the punch line."
436
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,438
So it was a bit of a dangerous joke for me.
437
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,436
But I tell it to you to help others,
438
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,790
so the kids who follow me
won't live the horror and the shame that I did.
439
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,559
I hate jokes. I can't remember them.
440
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,515
The only joke I could ever tell
is about a man who goes into a pub in Glasgow.
441
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,758
He sees another guy and the other guy
hits him over the head with an iron bar.
442
00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,315
And he says, "Hey! Ow!
Are you trying to be funny?"
443
00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:03,557
And the guy says, "No..."
I'm sorry. Can we do that again?
444
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:04,874
I'm no fucking good at jokes.
445
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,677
I don't do jokes and I didn't even want to do this -
but when they beg, it's ridiculous.
446
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,154
With my kind of thing, it's always attitude.
447
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,955
I've never been one to pick up on jokes.
Not that there's anything wrong in it.
448
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,596
When I told it to Emo, he looked like, "God, that's
the joke I should have written but I never will."
449
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,119
That is an Emo joke.
450
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,675
These three guys walk in.
They said, "We have a great, great act."
451
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,756
They unzip their flies and pee on the floor.
452
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,268
Then they pull down their pants
and poo on the floor.
453
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,959
Then they put their fingers down their throats
and vomit.
454
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,558
Then they start slip-sliding.
455
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,434
The agent said, "What do you call yourselves?"
And they said, "The Aristocrats."
456
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,473
Then there are people who just really love
the writing of the joke and the mood of the joke.
457
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:51,435
And the agent says, "I love it,
but I'm not gonna book you until I see you live.
458
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,393
This weekend I'll see the Butt-Fucking
Fauntleroys and the Shit-Eating Grannies.
459
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,830
Presuming I like you as much as I think I will,
let me ask you this.
460
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,678
Are you married to the name the Aristocrats?"
461
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,750
There's a more writerly version of the joke.
462
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,157
A manager is trying to sell performers
to a club owner.
463
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,317
The club owner goes,
"OK, yeah, what's your act do?"
464
00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:14,555
"A girl comes out and sucks off a donkey,
465
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,229
and a guy comes out, pisses on the girl,
he pisses on the donkey..."
466
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,239
He says, "Listen, we have a classy joint here.
I'm not sure it's our kind of act."
467
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:23,998
"You'll enjoy the Aristocrats."
468
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:28,158
The manager had to come up quickly with
a name to sell the group, so there's motivation.
469
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,318
And it's a feelgood ending.
Gets you here and gets you here. You know?
470
00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:36,035
I like to think the manager's lying,
that they don't do all that stuff.
471
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,675
They sing and they're funny but he now
has to go back and say, "I've sold you.
472
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,280
This is the sort of thing
you're gonna have to do.
473
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,550
You're gonna have to shag a donkey and shit..."
474
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,919
"What?!"
475
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,669
The guy with the saxophone, "Fuckin' what?
What was that donkey shit?"
476
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,393
And, of course,
everybody's style in telling the joke.
477
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,228
So the William Morris office
wants to work with this act - it's a family act.
478
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,477
The Smothers Brothers is a family act.
What do they do?
479
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,034
- They do some juggling.
- It's a jug...
480
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,150
- It's a juggling act?
- Juggling thing.
481
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,192
The father drops one of the clubs
and asks his son to pick it up,
482
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,593
so his dad...
483
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,393
dad just knees him right in the balls.
484
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,078
- You're putting me on.
- No, no.
485
00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:17,398
Then the mother does a topless thing
and goes down on the father.
486
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,079
- No!
- The kids come out naked.
487
00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:23,317
- Naked children?
- Then they do a sex act...
488
00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:25,828
- And then they throw up.
- They throw up?
489
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,034
- Where have they worked?
- All the best places.
490
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,310
- All the best places?
- Do you wanna know...
491
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:35,796
- Do you wanna know what they're...
- Not necessarily.
492
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,910
Well, ask me! It's kind of important.
493
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,951
OK. What is their name?
494
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,636
The Aristocrats.
495
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,229
- The what? Aristocrats?
- The Aristocrats.
496
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,430
- You didn't think that's funny?
- No.
497
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:49,959
It's a classic.
498
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,513
What makes that a classic?
499
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,473
A classic withstands the test of time
and the Aristocrats is one of those classic jokes
500
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,671
that has gone through 50, 60, 70 years...
501
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,837
So, no matter how many times I hear it,
I'll still think it's funny?
502
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,553
Whenever you say "Aristocrats"
the audience falls down.
503
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,636
- I didn't.
- Well, you're a straight man.
504
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,432
You're not supposed to.
505
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:14,077
The Aristocrats is so much about
the kind of signature that a comedian puts on it.
506
00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,759
That's what we do. You make it your own.
507
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,430
In the Amish version - the father flicks on a light,
the mother's using a radio remote,
508
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,392
watching television.
He goes, "What do you call yourselves?"
509
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,635
"Tis well we call ourselves the Aristocrats."
510
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,955
- That's the last thing...
- (Laughter)
511
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,673
First I come out on stage - and I am pregnant -
512
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,793
a friend of mine comes out
and he starts fucking me up the ass.
513
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,277
The baby starts sucking the penis
of the guy who's fucking me up the ass.
514
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,390
I start getting contractions and giving birth.
515
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,955
The baby starts coming out and come
starts coming out of the baby's mouth.
516
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,276
I mean, come on,
what is more beautiful than birth?
517
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,118
This woman comes into his office
and wants representation.
518
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,037
She says, "I'm the centrepiece.
519
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,311
My husband comes out, he bends down,
he goes down on me.
520
00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:59,191
We used to have Grandma blowing Grandpa
521
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,198
while she had a kazoo out of her ass
playing Begin The Beguine."
522
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,869
But she claims that these days
she doesn't have the wind for it any more.
523
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,913
Personally, I think she's tired
of blowing the guy after 54 years.
524
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,111
Comedians have done it in the way they tell it,
but as you're listening
525
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,197
your own personal orientations
you bring to this joke,
526
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,196
so it's funny for different reasons.
527
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,318
Sure I coulda told it some other way.
528
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:23,397
Some scatological bullshit that these boys love.
529
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,396
No, I needed the woman's point of view.
530
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,353
And you notice, the first sex act
was the husband going down on the woman.
531
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,356
The man would have had a blowjob in there.
532
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,119
Grandma, by the way,
is a talent, a gift beyond.
533
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,073
If she was born in another era,
she could have been...
534
00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:40,315
Liza Minnelli. That talented.
535
00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:42,555
But because she was in
the wrong time and place,
536
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,149
she ended up playing Begin The Beguine
out of her asshole.
537
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,430
There are different rules for women.
538
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,677
Men, they can get...
Men are expected to talk dirty.
539
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,154
And women are supposed to be ladylike.
540
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,829
They won't take it from Phyllis
because that's not Phyllis's demeanour.
541
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,759
They'll definitely take it from me
because if I don't say "cock" they're pissed.
542
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,836
Males have a cruder sense of humour.
543
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,589
A female wouldn't ever really create that joke.
544
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,950
I'm sick of women going, "It's a guy thing."
It's a joke.
545
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,390
If funny is a guy thing, you know what?
I'll strap it on.
546
00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:19,272
Cos I go and I do stuff and people say,
"What, you didn't curse?"
547
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,108
I'm trying not to do that, you know.
I'm trying to be genteel and shit.
548
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:24,479
But it doesn't work for me.
549
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,590
So when I would tell a joke like this,
550
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,916
it would be all about dripping penises and...
551
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,919
maybe pulling foreskins back
and making helmets out of 'em.
552
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,837
It would be the whole thing.
553
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,472
Why don't you do your version?
554
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,080
Because you've already got versions like that.
555
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:42,236
- I don't think we have.
- Oh, I bet you do.
556
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:43,872
I bet you do. I know you do.
557
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,070
Four guys walk in. They say, "Let's see the act."
558
00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:47,872
The four guys take their pants down,
559
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,390
they take their giant penises
and they take the foreskin and go like this.
560
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,954
They pull up the penises like this and they go,
"Wow."
561
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,673
They pull it down over themselves
and start to sing...
562
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,998
# Hallelujah, hallelujah
563
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,589
# I give the world to... (Mumbles)
564
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,796
That's the kind of joke I would fuckin' tell.
565
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,919
How could you clean that joke up?
I guess you could say "making love".
566
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,599
But they're brothers and sisters
so it's already incest.
567
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,198
You're already in a big hole.
568
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,357
Well, actually, when the curtain rises,
569
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,678
there we are on stage -
me, my two daughters, my wife,
570
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,474
and a gorilla named Daisy
from the Belgian Congo.
571
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:36,277
My daughter pulls my index finger,
at which point I let out a thunderous fart.
572
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,313
My wife does a very sexy striptease dance
on a tom-tom.
573
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:46,549
Following that, I have a violent love affair
with the gorilla Daisy, if you know what I mean.
574
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,390
But have no fear, if there are any children,
they'll be brought up as Catholics, you see.
575
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,034
He was in purple, she was in heliotrope.
576
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,594
They would come in...
They had two black satchels.
577
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,154
They said, "We work in one. It's an olio."
578
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,873
And the band will go... (Hums intro music)
579
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,319
And he opens up the black case
and there's a silver hammer in it.
580
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,351
(Hums tune)
581
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,677
His wife pulls out the chair
and he sits down upon the chair.
582
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:23,550
His wife takes the hammer
and with a great, swift movement -
583
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,034
bang! - hits her husband right in the forehead.
584
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,117
He goes ass over tea kettle back down,
585
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,789
over the couch, over the agents,
back in and pulls the drapes down.
586
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,277
The agent says, "My God,
I've never seen anything like that in my life!"
587
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,517
"Thank you very much."
He picks up the hammer, puts it away,
588
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,358
then he picks up that case,
picks up the other one.
589
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:45,992
They're about to leave and he says,
590
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,634
"Excuse me, just for curiosity,
591
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,875
what's in the other case?"
592
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,275
And he says, "Tylenol."
593
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,311
(Laughter)
594
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,237
"And what's the name of your act?"
595
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,397
"We call ourselves... The Sophisticates."
596
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,431
(Hums punch line tune)
597
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:05,953
(Cackling)
598
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,593
That's how I heard it.
599
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,633
They are my generation of entertainer.
We were all together at the same time.
600
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,478
You had to work clean
because there were signs backstage,
601
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,875
"No dirty material. Nothing blue."
602
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,115
You got vaudeville and the chitlin' circuit.
603
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:21,718
A black comic can always be dirty.
604
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,548
Couldn't get on TV
so he weren't worried about who we offended.
605
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,318
They'd be dirty on stage. It didn't matter.
606
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:32,150
So, a joke where part of the fun is that you're
dirty, and they could tell it anytime they want.
607
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,236
Cocks and cunts. That's where it's at.
608
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,350
Seinfeld never cursed. I told you that.
609
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,833
- Be like Seinfeld.
- All right.
610
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:42,590
Did you ever notice when you kick your girlfriend
in the cunt she calls the cops on you?
611
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,750
In all of art it's the singer, not the song.
612
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,873
You see that when you hear jazz musicians
who play the same song over and over again.
613
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,037
You hear one note of Coltrane,
you know it's Coltrane.
614
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,709
But I never understood it
as so clear in comedy.
615
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,275
When someone tells the Aristocrats very clearly,
it's the singer, not the song.
616
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,280
Here's the joke. A guy goes into a talent agent's.
617
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,950
He says, "I just saw the most amazing act.
You should hire this act. It's incredible."
618
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,468
And the agent says,
"Well, tell me what happens."
619
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,353
He says: Well, there's a family out on the stage.
620
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,633
There's a husband and a wife
and three little girls, like 12, 8 and 4.
621
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,035
They're just sitting there and they're all reading.
622
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:26,232
There's a little ceramic ballerina
going around playing Mozart music.
623
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,794
It's very calm and the lighting is beautiful.
624
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,308
And then the father gets up
and he walks off stage
625
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,157
and he comes back with flowers
626
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,351
and he gives one to the wife
and one to each of the daughters.
627
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,631
They go, "Oh, Daddy, we love you."
"You're my precious angels."
628
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,671
And everything is so nice. Smiling.
629
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,836
Then the father gets up and he leaves again
630
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,793
and he comes back with a big bottle of whisky
and a baseball bat.
631
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,432
He starts drinking the whisky
632
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,916
and he goes to the wife and starts
smashing her round the shoulders and legs.
633
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,236
He's banging her legs
and there's blood gushing everywhere
634
00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,751
and the daughters are screaming and he chases
them and smashes them on the back of the leg.
635
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,109
There's screaming and blood everywhere.
636
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,991
And the guy said, "That's horrible..."
637
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,032
The agent said,
"That's the most horrible thing I've ever heard.
638
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,038
What could this thing be called?
What is this? What is it?"
639
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,072
And the guy said, "It's called the Aristocrats."
640
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,275
And then they just blankly looked
at each other for a while and then...
641
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,437
the agent said, "I'd like to see that, actually."
642
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,277
It's this family - the Cavanaghs -
Anne and William.
643
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,550
They're eating dinner and they just finish.
644
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,955
Their maid comes in and she clears the plates.
645
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,753
They have two children - Betsy and Timmy.
646
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,837
Anne suggests
that they all go into the drawing room,
647
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,793
where Anne then braids
Betsy's beautiful blonde hair.
648
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,513
The husband plays chess with Timmy.
649
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,916
Then the maid comes in
with strawberries and whipped cream.
650
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,235
They all eat a nice dessert.
651
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,999
That's the act.
652
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,953
- What would you call an act like that?
- The Cocksucking Motherfuckers.
653
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,991
(Laughter)
654
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:07,677
There is another which uses the same word -
aristocrats - so maybe we can go there instead.
655
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,472
There were three missionaries -
656
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,798
a Catholic, a Buddhist and a Jew -
who were out in the middle of Africa.
657
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,149
They were caught by headhunters.
658
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,237
The chief came up and said,
"Good afternoon, gentlemen.
659
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:25,594
You have your options - death or...
you can meet the Aristocrats.
660
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,119
First is the Jewish rabbi.
661
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,720
"Have you made up your mind?"
He says, "Absolutely.
662
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,991
Perhaps there's an afterlife.
I'm not really sure about that.
663
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,031
We certainly value the life on Earth.
664
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,039
I have decided I will go with
meeting the Aristocrats."
665
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,870
Out come about 14 men,
wearing just the skimpiest little loincloths.
666
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,992
They ream him in every orifice.
667
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,508
They throw his body up.
They throw his body down.
668
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,109
He is completely covered
with aborigine spermatozoa.
669
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:58,518
They leave him, basically,
as a floppy little rag doll, over in the bushes.
670
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,074
He asks the Catholic priest, "How about you?"
671
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:06,990
"Still the same deal?" And he says, "Yeah,
you can either die or deal with the Aristocrats."
672
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:12,592
He says, "Horrible as that is,
I am no stranger to certain aspects of it.
673
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:17,760
I do see that the man over there is still breathing.
I could stay alive and help my parishioners.
674
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,473
I will take the... I guess, the Aristocrats.
675
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,795
It's same song, second verse.
676
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,230
They have him in so many ways
that he has never even dreamt of.
677
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,478
He is lying, panting barely audible breaths,
lying in the underbrush.
678
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,911
The Buddhist says, "I believe
that we are only here for a short time anyway.
679
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,791
I will take death."
680
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,593
The chief says, "OK, fine. Death it is.
681
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,631
But, first, the Aristocrats."
682
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:42,829
(Laughter)
683
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:51,517
So, that'll be my Aristocrats joke.
You've got 75 people telling the fucking thing.
684
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:56,236
This joke is one of those songs, I guess,
like Mr Tambourine Man.
685
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,317
You could sing it like Bob Dylan
or you could sing it like The Byrds.
686
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,430
You could sing it rough or make it sweet.
687
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,550
There's not that many jokes like this.
688
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,115
We were influenced
by one of the greatest juggling acts of all time.
689
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,950
- They'd be completely naked.
- At this point, he would penetrate the other guy.
690
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,629
The top guy would actually defecate
on the bottom guy.
691
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,832
They would actually juggle six severed, flaming,
elephant penises.
692
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:20,949
Yeah.
693
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,070
The were called The Incredible Towering
694
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,874
Flaming Naked
Elephant Penis Juggling Brothers.
695
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,115
They changed it to the Aristocrats.
696
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,755
You can make the joke funny
and still keep it in your personality.
697
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,836
I saw Christopher Walken tell that story.
698
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,714
I think it was James Lipton's
Cocksucking Extravaganza.
699
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,478
(Laughter)
700
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,593
He laid claim to the story actually happening.
701
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:52,432
This happened. My uncle was a talent agent.
Sort of a Broadway Danny Rose sort of guy.
702
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,789
A man comes in and says to my uncle,
703
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,030
"I think I might have the act
that you're looking for.
704
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,196
It involves my whole family."
705
00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:03,595
My uncle stopped him and said...
706
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,152
"That's crazy. What do you mean,
your whole family?"
707
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,352
The man says, "A gift my wife has
is unloaded on the audience
708
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,710
and that is projectile vomiting.
709
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,239
It's all over the front row.
710
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,671
Gallagher, that putz, would wish... this sort of...
711
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:24,711
(Giggling)
712
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,674
... this sort of thing was possible
from a watermelon. Forget it."
713
00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:31,790
(Chuckling)
714
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,753
This is what's happening to my uncle.
He starts to chuckle.
715
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,234
But he also is frightened for his life.
716
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:43,070
He senses, "Ask the name first, then get him out.
717
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,715
Don't give him the bum's rush
cos this fuck will kill you. Clearly."
718
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,751
(Chuckling)
719
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,149
To me, in this joke,
you get to show off your writing. Sort of.
720
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,310
A family walks into the agent's office
and they want to audition their new act.
721
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,069
Mom does a naked cartwheel through the air
and lands flat on her back.
722
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,112
She spreads her legs wide
and turns over to reveal...
723
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,196
a cherry-coloured ass.
724
00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:10,800
Son comes over and begins to jack off.
725
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,310
The vigour of youth allows him to do this
over and over again.
726
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:20,199
Sis, whose tits are practically non-existent,
suddenly gets down on all fours.
727
00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:24,552
Her hairless paper cut begins twitching
with anticipation.
728
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,670
Dad springs into action.
729
00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:29,996
He spins his daughter around
and gives her a little bit of 69.
730
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,396
Just then there's a blinding spray
that covers the entire family
731
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:38,275
and Grandma rides in on a red bicycle,
pisses all over everyone, and says, "Ta-da!"
732
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,312
The agent says, "That's amazing.
What do you call yourselves?"
733
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,477
Grandma says..."The Aristocrats."
734
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:51,071
We saw the act and it just dumbstruck Teller,
quite literally.
735
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:52,519
I can go into the whole thing.
736
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,757
The father who played the bagpipes out his ass,
737
00:37:55,800 --> 00:38:00,078
the mother who did this whole weird thing
with menstrual blood, and er...
738
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,830
Yeah, beautiful. But the part that killed us
the most was this little cute kid. About six?
739
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,474
The kid had this enormous cock.
740
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,078
It was the size of... you know...
741
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,759
Oh, like the size of a bottle, like that.
742
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,997
And he started jerking and jerking
and jerking and jerking.
743
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:19,397
Just as he got to the final end,
he would just jerk, jerk, and the kid had...
744
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,477
The whole head of his cock blew off.
745
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,796
And we said, "Fabulous. Fabulous."
746
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,833
Teller couldn't talk any longer.
He was just shocked. Dumbstruck.
747
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,757
Just never spoke again.
748
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,874
The kid was also dumbstruck.
He had the head of his cock blown off.
749
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,879
You're telling a joke in your own words
and creating your own setup.
750
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,878
If that can be personalised,
then that's a form of writing.
751
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,037
First I come in there
and I start to get loosened up a little bit.
752
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,198
Then I start to stretch my face.
753
00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:53,800
Then I like to celebrate the theatre. Comedy.
754
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,557
Tragedy.
755
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,194
And then Uncle Louie comes in. (Cracking)
756
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,357
And then cousin Eddie.
He just came back from Russia with the army.
757
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,271
# Deutschland Deutschland, Yugoslavia
758
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,308
I got it.
759
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,191
(Sobs)
760
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,949
And then, Aunt Sadie comes in
and does an acrobatic number.
761
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,558
Hey-oh!
762
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,354
A guy goes into a talent agent and he says,
"Dude, check it out. I've got a great act."
763
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,198
He's like, "It's not a fuckin' prop act, is it?"
764
00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:28,152
I would tell that joke
but I only work off prompter.
765
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,829
So unless I can look in the prompter and see...
766
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:37,113
Was it, "Fingering the daughter and eating shit
out of the grandmother's ass"?
767
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:42,280
I'd hate to get something like that wrong
cos it seems to be so delicately worded.
768
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,276
We all have different kinds of cartoons
playing in the comic's mind.
769
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,551
Murray the agent barges into
Stan the variety booker's office.
770
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,670
Stan goes, "No, no, no! No, you don't!
771
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,553
You always bring me
the worst acts in the universe."
772
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,876
"This one is completely different, Stan,
it's a family act.
773
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,833
First the father comes out,
naked as the day he was born.
774
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,632
And he sets up a ladder.
775
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,592
Then Mom comes out,
and she looks fantastic for her age.
776
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,918
She climbs halfway up the ladder,
naked as the day she was born.
777
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,033
Then Junior steps out, a strapping young lad,
naked as the day he was born.
778
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,514
And he climbs all the way
to the top of the ladder.
779
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,516
Dad lights a cigar, gets it smoking good,
780
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,792
sticks it in Mom's ass, she blows a smoke ring
out of her twat and the son dives through it."
781
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,037
Everybody loves it in circuses
where they fit a bunch of clowns in a car,
782
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:58,596
and they all come out, and in the audience
you see the kids' eyes just open up with awe.
783
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,437
It's just the most amazing thing.
784
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,951
It's like that,
except we all fit into this woman's cunt.
785
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,389
She rides around a little ring on a bicycle,
786
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:11,232
and when she stops, we all pop out of her cunt
787
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,159
and spit cunt juice at the audience,
which gets them involved.
788
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,192
They get a little wet -
it's like kind of a Gallagher thing.
789
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:20,708
Sometimes there's mucous
and little cunt loogies.
790
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,355
And we can make little animals
and things like that out of the...
791
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:25,992
the cunt snot.
792
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,031
And we give those to the kids.
793
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:29,718
Terrific.
794
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,228
Others will have more irony
or slightly more sarcasm.
795
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:33,918
A wry sense of looking at the world.
796
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,669
The guy goes in to get an agent.
The agent says, "What do you guys do?"
797
00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:39,870
"My wife and I..." Have you heard this one?
798
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,273
It wouldn't be The Onion
if it didn't have Jesus in it.
799
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,914
We have to have the grandfather
fucking Jesus in the ass.
800
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,428
You know what is offensive now? Gay bashing.
801
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,677
But if it's gay bashing,
we can't have any gay sex in the act.
802
00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:55,315
Throwing in gay sex has never deterred anyone
from bashing gays.
803
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,351
I think they could do both.
804
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,198
I think they could sodomise Jesus up the ass
and say...
805
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:01,639
(Laughter)
806
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,352
"This is because you're a faggot."
807
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,197
"You probably like this, faggot!"
808
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:07,674
There are guys who are made to tell this joke.
809
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:12,840
Some people think I have a reputation of being
a dirty comedian. I don't want to expose that.
810
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,348
I'm really a family kind of oriented guy.
811
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,311
Which brings me to this joke.
812
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,790
Oh, Saget. Now there is a man who walks
around telling the Aristocrat joke in life.
813
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,513
That's my friend Paul,
and I'm looking at his dinger.
814
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,632
He's got a very huge wiener. It's about that big.
815
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,994
I believe that's Shandling's joke. I'm pretty sure.
816
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,873
When you lift something, it better be a cock.
817
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,390
Once for Hanukkah, he gave me...
some slim Tampax.
818
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,716
He said, "Leave 'em out,
so guys will think you're really tight."
819
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,392
Here we go. This family...
820
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,237
mother, father and four kids.
821
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:52,070
Doesn't matter if they're boys or girls,
they're going to be used anyway as just a hole.
822
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,192
It's what this joke's about anyway,
using your kid...
823
00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:58,949
They have a paper route,
they go to school... and then you fuck 'em.
824
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:04,074
His aim is to get as many disgusting thoughts
into sentences as possible.
825
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:05,917
The agent goes, "What do you people do?"
826
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,269
The father's, like, "Watch us."
827
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,914
He takes his wife's bra,
and he rips off her underwear,
828
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,919
he takes some of her pubes with it - it's horrible.
Blood starts dripping down her legs.
829
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,633
He pulls out the tampon, throws it at the window
and it sticks.
830
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,399
They go down on each other
in different configurations...
831
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,954
it's 69, it's 29 - cos the kids are young - it's 9...
832
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,913
The father bends his kid over on the guy's desk
and he's taking him from behind,
833
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,439
which isn't right.
834
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,278
If any of you people are doing this
that are watching this,
835
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,710
if you're having sex with your family,
I don't condone it, it's wrong.
836
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,957
I could do a lot of PSAs to support
"Do not fuck your family".
837
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,956
So they're all fucking each other, right?
838
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,595
All of a sudden, the kid can't take it,
diarrhoea starts squirting from his ass.
839
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,517
It's like a haemorrhaging shit ass.
840
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:50,111
The kid starts spinning in a circle cos he can't
control it, it's like Curly and the Stooges.
841
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:54,631
The projectile shit is just flying out,
it's going all over the room, like spin art.
842
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:57,877
You don't know whether
to shit or puke in this room.
843
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,195
What the fuck am I doing?
844
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,837
Then... Wait, there's more.
845
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,269
You get to be a comic for comics.
846
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,993
This is... This is fun.
847
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,031
They start singing Make 'Em Laugh.
848
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,593
And Be A Clown.
849
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,313
The father's haemorrhoid pops, so he grabs it
and puts it on the end of his nose,
850
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,669
like Emmett Kelly - except he's covered in shit.
851
00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:25,711
Then they all start making out.
852
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,191
You know, they're...
853
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:30,639
All kidding aside.
854
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:35,037
By the way, this would be a good time right now
to take your pants off and get some lotion.
855
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,358
That's what happens next with this family.
They just start jacking and...
856
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,515
Can I get a copy of this? I'd like to send it
to the kids on the show Full House.
857
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:51,998
It was just an opportunity to be vile
for no reason at all. So I used to love it.
858
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,750
Father can't help himself, smacks his wife
in the mouth, knocks all of her teeth out.
859
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:01,669
Sticks his fist, accidentally, mind you,
down her toothless throat.
860
00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:04,393
Unbelievably, he actually fists her neck.
861
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,829
I love the idea of floating right past that,
862
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,192
as if this is the most normal...
and the thing you're most used to doing.
863
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:13,310
I come inside my daughter's asshole.
864
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,835
And then my wife feltches...
I'm not sure if you're familiar with feltching.
865
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,031
Feltching is where you fuck someone in the ass
and then you...
866
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,832
... suck the come out.
867
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,552
Tasty.
868
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,795
Jis straight is good,
869
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,308
but if it has that little taste of shit...
870
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,714
We also have the dirty Sanchez.
871
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,389
That's when you fuck someone in the ass,
pull it out and give the girl a moustache,
872
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:37,839
with the shit on your dick.
873
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,598
Mexican moustache.
874
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,471
Then there's the strawberry shortcake.
875
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,353
He jerks off on her face
and punches her in the nose.
876
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,550
She's bleeding and there's white...
877
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,709
A rusty trombone, obviously, you know.
878
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,035
Come on. The rusty trombone
people have heard of.
879
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,150
You spread a man's asshole,
880
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,270
and then there's the rusty hole...
881
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,118
And I lick his ass
while I reach around and jerk him off.
882
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,151
And that's how you...
883
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:06,638
Space docking, where you take a shit
in a girl's pussy. I don't think anyone has.
884
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,797
I would make sure
that I was treating those things as...
885
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:15,277
"And then he took the carburettor, and
he began to take the carburettor apart..."
886
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:19,233
"I'm fucking my daughter, understand,
while she's knobbing my son."
887
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:20,998
And he's not trying to be foul.
888
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:25,192
He believes..."It's really quite novel
what we do and you'd be crazy not to hire us."
889
00:47:25,240 --> 00:47:27,117
Make it as matter of fact as possible.
890
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:31,870
That's the joy for me of saying something
that violates someone's boundaries.
891
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,798
The mother clips the nails off her hand,
puts it up her daughter
892
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:36,717
and starts working her like a puppet.
893
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,036
The father's got smelling salts
that he's been giving to his kids,
894
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,071
who keep passing out.
895
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,829
Their heads are bleeding and they've been
anally raped in front of an agent...
896
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,917
The mother had a big boil on her back -
that popped.
897
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,235
Always make sure you haven't left anything out,
898
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,953
because you know
there's always the chance to be topped.
899
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,878
He takes out his penis
and goes over to the agent's desk.
900
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,309
He starts slamming his dick in the drawer.
901
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,749
Just flattens it right out like a bookmark.
902
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,475
Then starts smacking his kids with it,
like a wet towel at the gym.
903
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,875
He knocks one of his kids in the eye
and it pops out.
904
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,480
He looks at that as an opportunity, mind you.
905
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,229
Just trying to go further
than anyone had ever gone before.
906
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,192
He just puts his flat wiener
right in that eye socket.
907
00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:20,118
Gets caught -
gets caught on the back of his retina.
908
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,230
He starts trying to get him off of him,
909
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,111
and he's cock-eyed... no.
910
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:25,718
So all this was going on...
911
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,320
I gotta go on. I'm sorry, I got people to entertain.
912
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,237
Excuse me.
913
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,157
What is so unique about this joke,
914
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:36,079
is that it's so absurdly front loaded
that it's almost the opposite of a joke.
915
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,475
Steam is built up in the setup.
916
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,193
There's something very satisfying
in that structure.
917
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:44,391
Momentum, momentum, momentum and...
the punch line means nothing.
918
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,635
There's something very satisfying in that.
919
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,557
But it is the kind of joke that, you know,
920
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,434
if you spent this much time on a setup
and the punch line was "Aristocrats"...
921
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,471
most people are gonna go...
922
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:57,832
He says, "The Aristocrats."
923
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,871
Oh, lord.
924
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,791
Here, have some money.
925
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,559
The punch line is almost intentionally...
926
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,672
not lame, but weaker than
you might have expected it to be.
927
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:11,792
But the journey is so much fun
that you just don't care.
928
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,671
I'm not even sure what this means.
929
00:49:13,720 --> 00:49:17,633
The punch line can be the icing on the cake,
but the cake can be really delicious.
930
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,274
They slice a line
that runs up the middle of a testicle,
931
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,436
it's like a butterfly shrimp at Benihana.
932
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,994
Now it looks like some strange sort of mouth.
933
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:26,678
They have ventriloquist nut sacks.
934
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:28,870
Then they brought some children out on stage.
935
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,833
That was sweet. One guy lays down...
he's got a rod the size of my arm...
936
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,279
and balanced the kid,
up his ass on the guy's rod.
937
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:40,472
Then they jerk the kid off, get the kid hard,
they put another naked kid, his ass on that...
938
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,796
- They're building like a tower.
- Something you gotta see to believe.
939
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,628
By spinning each kid in a different direction,
you get this kind of thing...
940
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,511
It was lovely and had great lighting.
941
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,552
There are people who tell it
who tunnel and make it great,
942
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,830
and make the act more interesting and fabulous.
943
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,634
And then the animal part came on.
I'm trying to remember everything I saw.
944
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,468
- Donkey, Ilama, camel...
- Something that looked like a bison, I guess...
945
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,512
An animal that they brought out
that you were rubbing.
946
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:07,676
- That wasn't an animal.
- What was it?
947
00:50:07,720 --> 00:50:09,312
It wasn't an animal.
948
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,555
We're so conditioned now to sitcom humour,
949
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,830
where it's setup, punch line.
950
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,156
They think they're missing it,
they don't know the journey is the fun.
951
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:21,193
What intrigues me is how in America
you can laugh at something like Aristocrats.
952
00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:24,596
You don't have aristocrats.
Why does that work in America?
953
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,639
That much foul filth needs a word
like "aristocrats".
954
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:31,559
It almost sounds quaint that you can put
a cute cap on something that rancid
955
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,672
that's just as ugly as you can be,
and is like "the Aristocrats".
956
00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:36,676
A form of society that doesn't even exist.
957
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:40,395
I'm not gonna lie. The first time I heard it,
I said, "What's an aristocrat?"
958
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:41,668
I had no idea.
959
00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:43,233
Just this odd word.
960
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,192
But it's the only word that would satisfy
that hunk of filth.
961
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:49,676
I have heard the twist of calling them
"the Sophisticates."
962
00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:52,234
Also works. Actually, maybe even a little better.
963
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,999
Maybe a little better.
That's nice, the Sophisticates.
964
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,031
I personally think it's a much better joke.
965
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,755
It's the goofiness of a person
turning the joke upon themselves.
966
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,439
Whereas aristocrats are seldom self-appointed.
967
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,631
- Therefore the joke is satire.
- That's a political statement.
968
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,989
You know what would be great to add to this?
969
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,031
Just add Republican.
970
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,514
And the Democrats.
It's not about them and Republicans.
971
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,233
Because of the language and the images,
972
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,236
that gives it a political slant.
973
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,717
I don't think the original intent was
to do anything but tell a wild joke.
974
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,150
There's no act in England
that an aristocrat wouldn't do...
975
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,358
... that doesn't involve shagging animals
or fist-fucking cows, or anything.
976
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,870
This was the evening of
Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
977
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:41,835
As you can see, there's our friend Eric Idle,
George Harrison and Terry Gilliam.
978
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:43,677
We were just telling jokes,
979
00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:48,032
and George said, "Instead of aristocrat
or sophisticates, we use royalty."
980
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,110
Which is an even funnier joke.
981
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,993
An English one is "debonairs",
but that doesn't grab me.
982
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,679
When I heard it, it was the Debonairs.
983
00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:58,517
Which I think is even funnier.
984
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:01,037
It has a certain je ne sais quoi.
985
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,071
The Debonairs? I like that.
986
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,111
The Aristocrats is pretty funny,
the more you think about it.
987
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,913
Whatever the other guys are telling you,
I have the original.
988
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:14,272
People signed the Declaration of Independence,
there was a big party - that's the way it was told.
989
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:18,632
I'm from Philadelphia. Go to Independence Hall,
see the Liberty Bell, the Declaration.
990
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,559
There is a framed sketch
of the original telling of the Aristocrats.
991
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,591
And you see Ben Franklin laughing,
992
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,631
and you see Betsy Roth taking a dump.
993
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:31,549
Because the original joke, when they slid
through the shit and vomit, they hit the bell.
994
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,591
And that's what cracked the bell.
995
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,359
Look at the signers,
there's one very heavy signer.
996
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,197
He's the one that fucked up the bell.
997
00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:42,791
I told the original. People are gonna tell the
Aristocrats a different way. That's fucked.
998
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,558
Er... this joke...
999
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,149
my grandfather told my father,
he heard it from his grandfather...
1000
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:49,952
It goes all the way back, this joke.
1001
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,072
Sometimes it was known as
the tale of Pushtuchkin,
1002
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,236
the gay rabbi.
1003
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,271
(Speaks gibberish)
1004
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,031
Was ist das? Die Aristocrats!
1005
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,514
There's a similar tale, it gets mixed up.
1006
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,154
My grandfather took this joke so far,
1007
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,589
his entire life - he lived 67 years -
1008
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,676
always in a constant state of this joke.
1009
00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:24,029
Constant - eat, everything he did, marry...
1010
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,513
children, everything.
1011
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,198
It was setup, setup, setup, setup.
1012
00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:29,800
And then, just the moment he died, punch line.
1013
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,150
"What do they call this act?" "The Aristocrats."
He's dead.
1014
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,838
And you know, we laughed.
1015
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,156
Grandpa's dead
and we went, "Oh, the Aristocrats!"
1016
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:40,791
I get it all of a sudden, his entire life.
1017
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:41,955
I get this.
1018
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,468
We thought, and we were right,
that he was crazy.
1019
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,670
What he did, no-one will top him.
1020
00:53:46,720 --> 00:53:48,711
No-one will top this guy.
1021
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:50,113
Uncle Yanush.
1022
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:51,878
My grandfather's...
1023
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,831
See, that's bad improv right there.
1024
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,598
My grandfather, Uncle Yanush.
1025
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,632
I remember being at school
and I remember going home,
1026
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:02,672
and my grandmother sitting me down
and telling me the joke.
1027
00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:04,836
She's from Poland, so she only spoke Yiddish.
1028
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:06,950
The only English word she knew was "cunt".
1029
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:08,991
I remember "cunt".
1030
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,031
And I remember her saying, "Eat, eat."
1031
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,031
And "cunt".
1032
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,196
You know, now that I think back on it,
it's probably wrong.
1033
00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:21,879
There was this story my mother used to tell me.
1034
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,593
There was a goat in Tammy
1035
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:26,710
that my father got very involved with
1036
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,832
while he was working -
they went on the road with this act.
1037
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:34,954
My father was blowing this goat over at MGM
and my mother walked in on them.
1038
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,878
And my mother just thought that was adorable.
1039
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,434
My mother is a golden shower queen.
1040
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:45,031
The original movie of Singin' In The Rain
was a huge golden shower extravaganza.
1041
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,992
But it didn't get past the censors,
which is a shame,
1042
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,794
because there were some wonderful numbers
with Mickey Rooney...
1043
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,831
who was huge with fisting.
1044
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:57,190
In the early days in Hollywood,
it was completely accepted.
1045
00:54:57,240 --> 00:54:59,151
I always love show business jokes.
1046
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,111
These ones that seem a little more inside.
1047
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,355
And in a very sort of twisted, warped way,
1048
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:07,791
this disgusting, foul joke is a joke about
the sweet old days of show business.
1049
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:13,196
(As Liza Minnelli) I'm going to sit on top of the
piano and fit the whole thing in my vagina.
1050
00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:15,959
The percussionist -
I love that word, "percussionist" -
1051
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,992
is gonna take his triangle,
put it in front of my triangle,
1052
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:22,749
and kling-a-ling-a-ling with the trolley,
just the way mama sang it.
1053
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:26,873
And then I'm gonna take the banger
to the triangle, and kling-a-ling it,
1054
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:32,040
until my clitoris swells up
into a large Macy's Day Parade balloon.
1055
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,877
I'm gonna take it and stretch it out,
1056
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,390
and I'm gonna wrap it round the microphone
cord and fling it over my shoulder
1057
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:38,953
the way Mama used to do.
1058
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:40,319
As I'm singing,
1059
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,750
# What'll I have that I don't...
(Breathless)... have
1060
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,158
Where did that note go?
1061
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,272
And then the rest of the band's
gonna jump up, and we're gonna sing.
1062
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:53,074
# Shine your shoes, shine your shoes
1063
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,680
And I'm gonna shine my shoes
with my vagina juices,
1064
00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:59,110
put 'em back on, tap, tap, tap, do a split,
and that's the act.
1065
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:00,752
I'm gonna call it...
1066
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:03,751
... the Aristocrats.
1067
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,791
Isn't that terrific?
1068
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,596
This is a joke exclusive to show business.
1069
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,996
You'd never hear a physicist going,
"It's a muon, you cunt."
1070
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:18,077
I have a joke very similar to
"That's why the group is called Aristocrats",
1071
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,031
in the show business theme with a nice turn.
1072
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,231
There's an audition for piano player
at a very exclusive bar.
1073
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,431
A guy shows up, and the owner says,
"This is a very exclusive place.
1074
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:30,109
I'd like you to play all different styles of music,
but they have to be classy."
1075
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,071
The guy says, "I can do anything."
1076
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,112
He plays the most beautiful song
the owner's ever heard.
1077
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,630
He says, "I've never heard that before."
"I wrote it myself."
1078
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:40,033
"What's it called?"
1079
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:43,834
"It's called 'My dog was fucking me in the ass
while my cat was licking my balls'."
1080
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,314
"That's awful. Do you have any other songs?"
1081
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:48,590
"I have a wonderful thing I'll play for you."
1082
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:52,155
He plays this kind of jazzy tune and they say,
"Great! What was that?"
1083
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,668
He says, "I ate your sister's bloody tampon."
1084
00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:56,995
"Hey, this a classy place. No more of that."
1085
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:58,996
He goes, "Oh, fine. Fine."
1086
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:01,156
"I really like your songs, I wanna hire you.
1087
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,556
Play for my customers, just don't tell them
any names of your songs."
1088
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:09,151
That night he starts playing the piano and the
crowd goes crazy, the songs were beautiful.
1089
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,397
After an hour he says,
"Give me a break, I've gotta go to the can."
1090
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,716
He goes to the bathroom. On his way out,
he forgets to zip up his pants.
1091
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,230
Somebody says, "You know, your zipper's
undone and your dick's hanging out."
1092
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,589
He says, "Know it? I wrote it!"
1093
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,358
That's what a group of entertainers
have in common.
1094
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:28,516
They understand they've seen shitty acts.
1095
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,597
The worst bar band in Shitsville, Ohio,
1096
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:33,631
always have a glorious name,
1097
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,797
like, The Incredible Diamond-Studded
Reefer Tones.
1098
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,195
It's done in every aspect of life.
1099
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,357
You'll see a little rundown greasy spoon diner,
1100
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,550
calling itself The Gourmet Corner.
1101
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,672
Besides from the humour of the joke
there's a sadness,
1102
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,996
that these people had no self-realisation
1103
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:54,191
that what their act was
would get them absolutely no place.
1104
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,754
Yet they call themselves the Aristocrats,
1105
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:01,794
because they're clinging to
the very last vestige of respectability.
1106
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,559
Absolutely no class, absolutely horrible.
1107
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,319
But they are in show business
and they are aristocrats.
1108
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:11,069
I don't put the Aristocrats on my r�sum�
any more, you know.
1109
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,192
It doesn't take away from, like, my pride.
1110
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,550
I actually was an Aristocrat.
1111
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,558
It's kinda weird to be a part of that legend.
1112
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,673
It was my mom, my dad, me, my brother...
and my nana.
1113
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:26,631
My father would come out on stage,
1114
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,911
the music would play
and he would start masturbating.
1115
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:31,837
My brother comes out,
1116
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:35,475
they do, like a mutual masturbation,
kind of like a Dueling Banjos.
1117
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,750
They're holding hands and they spin.
1118
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,268
I stay in a stationary position.
1119
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:44,438
When the assholes come by,
I lick the assholes.
1120
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:49,270
And in one motion, my mother...
both pinkies up their assholes, as they come.
1121
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:51,914
It's pretty... It's pretty spectacular.
1122
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:53,791
And it's all about timing.
1123
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:58,798
Like, on one level it's a joke about
scatological humour and show business.
1124
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,637
But on another level,
1125
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,477
it's about a family,
1126
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,671
it's about the hopes and dreams of that family...
1127
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,711
My brother has Down's syndrome.
1128
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:09,716
Did I say that?
1129
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:11,796
People think it's a setback, but really...
1130
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:13,398
it's a selling point.
1131
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:14,714
It's not a handicap.
1132
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:16,751
I don't wanna say it's a gift.
1133
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,679
I mean, we think of it as a gift
just in terms of ticket sales, but I mean...
1134
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,870
we think of it as...
1135
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:26,595
showing the other beauties that God creates,
1136
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:28,915
like the ones with the bigger foreheads,
1137
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,679
and the lower eyelids.
1138
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,314
Did they ever ask you
to be on The Tonight Show?
1139
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:35,873
Not The Tonight Show.
1140
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,388
But Joe Franklin loved the Aristocrats.
1141
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:42,558
He was like our rehearsal director
when Dad and my brother weren't there,
1142
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:44,591
and my mother...
1143
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,631
... and my nana... weren't there.
1144
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:51,951
I was on his show.
1145
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:53,991
He said it wasn't a taped show.
1146
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:56,031
But...
1147
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,071
we, like, did a show.
1148
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,471
Like, in his apartment?
1149
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:05,590
Yeah, it was his office.
1150
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:07,631
But he had a... a bed in it...
1151
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:12,439
like a couch that he called Uncle Joe's bed.
1152
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,075
For little people.
Cos a couch is like a bed for little people.
1153
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:18,111
You know?
1154
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:25,758
Joe Franklin raped me.
1155
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:34,230
Comedians often feel like,
"I am this weird, twisted, strange person,
1156
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:36,999
somewhere near the outer reaches
of the bell curve,
1157
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:39,076
trying somehow to package this
1158
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:43,318
in a way that confers upon me
some kind of dignity and respect."
1159
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,079
Maybe that's the reason
that this joke is so appealing.
1160
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:50,432
I've played by their rules for a really long time.
I don't want to do it any more.
1161
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,869
Will they prevent me
from doing a show with the Olsen twins?
1162
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,035
I think you're all skirting around this.
1163
01:00:56,080 --> 01:01:00,710
You should all be aristocrats.
The audience, all of us should be aristocrats.
1164
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,320
People are contracted
into this puritanical idea
1165
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,875
that we have to get married when we're young,
we can't fuck boys and fuck girls.
1166
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,753
We can do it all. Starfish are bi.
1167
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:13,873
Have you seen a starfish eat out
another starfish? It takes for ever. They do it.
1168
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:17,276
Close the comedy clubs and open up brothels,
bathhouses, glory holes.
1169
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:21,279
This is what this country needs.
It needs a really tight orgasm.
1170
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,072
I'm an actor. I was in a lot of TV shows.
1171
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:27,716
I went to this orgy once. I fucked all these people
and somebody whispered in my ear,
1172
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:29,751
"You were great on Friends."
1173
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:33,876
But you're not going to have Mary Hart
talk about that with me.
1174
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,309
I want to take an approach to the joke
in my way.
1175
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:37,918
I'm the agent and I'm pitching it.
1176
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:43,557
So this very athletic blond man
walks onto the stage in a leather Speedo.
1177
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,273
He has this slightly sadistic nature about him.
1178
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:51,030
He has this fine, fine baby hair
all over these very steely pectoral muscles.
1179
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,469
He has like a treasure trail that goes down...
1180
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:56,114
to heavy, cut man-meat. An 11 x7 cock.
1181
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:57,559
He's horse-hung guy.
1182
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:00,319
This chick walks up with a rocket body
and artificial rack.
1183
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:04,114
She looks like Carmen Electra, only better.
She starts gently rubbing her pussy.
1184
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:07,197
This submissive sissy boy comes out
and points at the dick and says,
1185
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,674
"I want that cock to bust my virgin ass."
1186
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:11,358
The chick straps on this dildo,
1187
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:15,359
has this challenging, intense expression
on her face, and says, "Let me."
1188
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:18,073
She rubs him in a very spiritually-centred way.
1189
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:21,032
Little sissy boy is obviously a demanding
pussy bottom.
1190
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:23,071
He tilts his ass up.
1191
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:27,796
She starts eating his ass, giving him this
rim job royale, as they'd say in Pulp Fiction.
1192
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:31,799
The horse-hung dick is now going into
pussy boy's mouth. He's getting face-fucked.
1193
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,559
The girl takes his cock in her pussy,
but what she...
1194
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:36,716
and this is gonna be in the programme,
1195
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:41,231
that the girl has trained in that fine geisha way
where the pussy would contract,
1196
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,669
to make your vagina pull up on that cock.
1197
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:47,759
When you are shooting, it is like yanking it.
1198
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,712
I don't know if anyone's ever had that happen,
but it's wild.
1199
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,877
She is taking a huge fucking horse flow.
1200
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:55,911
It's called the Massage-ocrats.
1201
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:01,599
This joke holds a mirror up to itself.
1202
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:07,275
The people who say the joke must contain shit -
don't invite them into your home.
1203
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:11,632
The people who say it must involve bestiality -
don't let them near your dog.
1204
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:13,716
This tells you a lot about a person, this joke.
1205
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:16,479
It's where your darkest place can go, you know.
1206
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:19,830
In a way, this joke really isn't all that relevant.
1207
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,075
Standards of "offensive" change over time.
1208
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:23,997
It's quite a tame joke now.
1209
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:27,157
There's something quite charming about it,
which is weird.
1210
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,192
"I have got the perfect family act."
"Go ahead. Tell me."
1211
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:33,232
"The wife and I go out, we sing and dance,
we fuck each other,
1212
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:35,555
we fuck the kids,
the kids fuck each other.
1213
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:39,195
The dog shits and pisses on all of us.
He looks up, jumps through a hoop."
1214
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,231
"What do you call the act?"
"The Aristocrats."
1215
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:44,431
The agent goes, "I already have an act like that."
1216
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,357
That's what happened to show business.
1217
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:50,552
"Fuck the kids, fuck the dogs," doesn't matter.
Well, I've already seen that.
1218
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:52,591
That's not really a joke any more.
1219
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:56,315
That's actually a really great idea
to pitch to a network.
1220
01:03:56,360 --> 01:04:00,797
I could walk into NBC tomorrow and say
I have a dysfunctional family idea.
1221
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,434
So dysfunctional it defies description.
1222
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:08,031
We have people fucking and sucking,
diddling like an 11-year-old cheerleader.
1223
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:12,949
We can bring in people from the past.
They get those idiotic ads - Humphrey Bogart.
1224
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:17,278
Get your major world leaders from the past,
like Hitler, Mussolini, Genghis Khan.
1225
01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:18,833
I just thought of that!
1226
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:20,916
It's not a joke! This will go on TV.
1227
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:24,270
We blow Hitler, then in the next episode
we bite his dick off. Ha ha!
1228
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,392
See what happens to Hitler's dick.
Phenomenal!
1229
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:31,399
It's a family act but it's a twist,
cos they're retarded.
1230
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:35,035
What they do is, they get in a pile
of dead nuns and they fuck each other,
1231
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,709
then they have a big closing
and fist-fuck an autistic pre-teen.
1232
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,320
The agent says, "Well, what do you call 'em?"
1233
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:43,351
And he says, "The Osbournes."
1234
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:49,958
A lot of what is already on TV now, they would
have the dog-fucking and the shit-eating on...
1235
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:53,675
- Friends.
- Not on Friends but on South Park.
1236
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:55,996
- You guys want to hear a funny joke?
- No.
1237
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:58,470
This family walks into a talent agency.
1238
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,988
Mother, father, son, daughter and a little baby.
1239
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,838
The father says,
"Sir, our family has an amazing act."
1240
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,394
The agent says, "Family acts are too cutesy."
1241
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:10,433
The mother goes, "Sir, just give us two minutes.
We know you'll like our act."
1242
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,472
The agent says,
"All right, you've got two minutes."
1243
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:17,035
Thrilling circus music starts
as the father spins his daughter round,
1244
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:19,753
- lifts her skirt and starts licking her asshole.
- What?!
1245
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:23,839
Then the son lays down, opens his mouth, and
the mother squats down and shits all over him.
1246
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:25,359
- Dude!
- Hold on, hold on.
1247
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,870
The father grabs the baby,
takes off his diaper and sucks his cock,
1248
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:33,436
while the son, with shit in his mouth,
goes over and licks the baby's balls.
1249
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:36,836
Then they take the baby
and stuff it head-first into the mother's vagina.
1250
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:38,871
- Just stop.
- Hold on.
1251
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:42,151
They get the baby halfway in
so just its legs are sticking out.
1252
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:45,510
The son takes the shit out of his mouth
and rubs it all over everyone,
1253
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:49,155
while the father sticks his cock
in the baby's asshole and fucks it,
1254
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:52,397
until he comes all over the baby,
the wife, son and daughter.
1255
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,954
- I don't want to...
- Will you hold on, please?
1256
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:59,073
Then the father says, "And now for our
impersonation of the victims of 9/11."
1257
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,839
The family runs around
covered with shit, piss and come,
1258
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,599
going, "Ah! The building's coming down! Help!"
1259
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:07,837
The family runs back to the centre of the room
and goes, "Ta-da!"
1260
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,713
The talent agent just sits there.
Finally, he says,
1261
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:13,194
"That's a hell of an act. What do you call it?"
1262
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:15,629
The father says, "The Aristocrats."
1263
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:17,398
(Silence)
1264
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,237
(Chuckles)
1265
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:21,872
I don't get it.
1266
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:24,837
Neither do I.
1267
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:26,711
It's not transgressive any more.
1268
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:30,275
We're re-inventing the joke
by putting in stuff that's offensive now.
1269
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,117
The world has changed.
1270
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:35,277
Shockability had gone to a whole other level.
1271
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:37,595
People say, "Nigger, spic, dick, cunt."
1272
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,995
You can say all that, people go... (Yawns)
1273
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:42,508
When you're among comedians,
you have to push the envelope.
1274
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:44,152
A comedian telling it to comedians?
1275
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,590
He'd probably do a more disgusting version
of it for his peers
1276
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:51,553
than he would for his friends at the bar
from the old neighbourhood.
1277
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:55,229
It's like you're performing in front of your family,
yet there's no holds barred.
1278
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,875
There's a level of appreciation
that will go along with it.
1279
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:01,912
I dare you to tell that joke on stage
in front of anyone.
1280
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:04,315
If you can make an audience laugh at that,
you are God.
1281
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:08,512
I'm a writer at the New York Observer.
For five years, I've covered the Friar's roast.
1282
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:12,599
This year I wrote about Gilbert Gottfried's
take on the Aristocrats.
1283
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:14,835
Gilbert Gottfried did it at the Hugh Hefner roast.
1284
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:16,916
It was the funniest fucking joke ever.
1285
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:21,033
This roast was happening
not even three weeks after September 11th,
1286
01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:24,675
so there was a big discussion
about what was right in terms of taste.
1287
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:27,712
There hadn't been any comedy in New York.
It was very fresh.
1288
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,877
We were faced with having to put up a show,
put on tuxedos,
1289
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:33,388
get Hugh Hefner and his pussy posse
on a plane.
1290
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,237
It wasn't easy but we got him to do it.
1291
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:39,432
To his credit, we raised half a million dollars
for charity, for 9/11 charities.
1292
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,277
People needed a laugh, to release.
1293
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:45,632
Everybody was pulling back.
Everybody was really being careful.
1294
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:47,033
Rob Schneider went on first.
1295
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:49,833
He was doing great,
then a couple of jokes didn't work.
1296
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:54,556
I went up to the mike and I said, "Rob, hasn't
there been enough bombing in this city?"
1297
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:57,160
Here comes Gilbert and he just went for broke.
1298
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:59,191
It was unbelievable.
1299
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:02,516
Gilbert Gottfried took the mike,
took the room over.
1300
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:05,279
He said he was trying to get a direct flight
to Los Angeles.
1301
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:09,438
He was nervous cos his plane had a connection
at the Empire State Building.
1302
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:11,994
That was when the crowd turned.
1303
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:15,999
They started booing him.
A guy was shouting, "Too soon, too soon."
1304
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:17,871
The crowd was murmuring and he said:
1305
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:20,115
OK. A man...
1306
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:25,869
A talent agent is sitting in his office.
1307
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:32,352
A family walks in: man woman,
their two kids, and their little dog.
1308
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,755
The agent goes,
"What kind of an act do you do?"
1309
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:39,271
It was like he made a conscious decision,
"OK, I can't push the envelope of taste
1310
01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:44,235
in terms of what happened in September,
so I'll push it in a completely different direction."
1311
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:48,114
It was arguably the dirtiest roast
the Friar's had ever done.
1312
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:52,551
The father starts fucking his wife,
the wife starts jerking off the son,
1313
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,716
the son starts going down on the sister,
1314
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,638
the sister starts fingering the dog's asshole.
1315
01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:00,990
He just grabbed them by the throat.
He just attacked.
1316
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,793
Then the son starts blowing his father.
1317
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:05,910
You want me to start at the beginning?
1318
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:10,712
If you missed any portion, I'll repeat it.
1319
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:14,155
There was this weird buzz that came.
1320
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:19,399
The guys up on the dais were looking at each
other with this look of familiarity in their eyes.
1321
01:09:19,440 --> 01:09:21,749
They were all saying,
"Where is he going to take this?"
1322
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:25,190
Then the daughter starts licking out
the father's asshole.
1323
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:28,915
Then the father shits on the floor,
the mother shits on the floor.
1324
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,030
The dog pisses and shits on the floor.
1325
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:34,914
They all jump down into the shit and piss
and come
1326
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:38,157
and they start fucking and sucking each other,
1327
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,475
and then they take a bow.
1328
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:44,711
And the talent agent says...
1329
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:48,951
I'll wait till you're ready.
1330
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:54,074
I'm sitting at a table
and the comics were on the floor.
1331
01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:56,793
They might have to clean this up for TV.
1332
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:01,914
I was laughing cos he was going so big with it,
1333
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:04,633
which I can't imagine Gilbert Gottfried doing.
1334
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:09,549
It was probably one of the best single tellings
of a joke I've ever heard.
1335
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:11,431
Now, where was I? Oh, yes.
1336
01:10:11,480 --> 01:10:14,552
The son is licking out his father's asshole.
1337
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:16,830
(Laughter builds)
1338
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:20,316
I almost died because I couldn't
catch my breath with laughing.
1339
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:23,079
They fuck and suck each other
and they take a bow.
1340
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:27,912
And the talent agent...
Did you miss any portion of this?
1341
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:31,589
The talent agent says,
"Well, that's an interesting act."
1342
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:33,915
Which is kind of an understatement.
1343
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:39,637
The laugh was so deep and cathartic
that people were coughing up pieces of lung.
1344
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:44,196
It was amazing. A lot of people watching him,
or up on the dais, are all in comedy
1345
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:48,074
and it was as if he had united everybody
in that one moment
1346
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:52,796
because he told something that they all knew
and they all had some sort of handle on it.
1347
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:56,435
He focused it and clearly impressed
a lot of people in the room.
1348
01:10:56,480 --> 01:10:58,471
Now...
1349
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:02,399
He pulled this thing out and did it so well,
1350
01:11:02,440 --> 01:11:04,431
with such fearlessness.
1351
01:11:04,480 --> 01:11:07,836
I hate to end this on a really sentimental note.
1352
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:11,873
There was a sound in the audience
that you really knew something was happening.
1353
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:17,438
It was outside my grasp, and for anyone else
who wasn't a total comedy veteran.
1354
01:11:17,480 --> 01:11:19,436
Not a great joke.
1355
01:11:19,480 --> 01:11:24,429
On the other hand, hear Gilbert Gottfried
tell a joke like that, it's a Picasso.
1356
01:11:24,480 --> 01:11:26,152
The joke I didn't care about any more.
1357
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:27,952
I wanted to see how far he would take it,
1358
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,753
and when he would not stop saying
"fucking and sucking"...
1359
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:32,995
Watching him go through his apoplectic,
1360
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:37,397
rhythmic, incantation of the whole thing
sort of takes over.
1361
01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:41,433
The fact that he is saying these particular words
almost doesn't matter.
1362
01:11:41,480 --> 01:11:43,550
He says, "What do you call yourself?"
1363
01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:45,591
And they go, "The Aristocrats!"
1364
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,191
It's just a joke.
1365
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:56,829
Help!
1366
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,075
Is it as shocking as the first time you heard it?
1367
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:01,156
Don't touch me.
1368
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:04,715
- Is that the joke as you remember it?
- I didn't hear it that way.
1369
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:06,398
This is so much worse.
1370
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:13,274
I'm already feeling like I didn't do it justice.
1371
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:18,189
I had "fucking the daughter" in there
but I didn't colour it in with colourful adjectives.
1372
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:19,468
"An arm like Popeye."
1373
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:21,750
I didn't realise the bill that I was on.
1374
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:25,509
What's the most vile, offensive thing
you could add to top all that?
1375
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:31,396
If a guy took some of the shit and smeared it
on his face and did a black-face routine.
1376
01:12:31,440 --> 01:12:33,556
- Doing a minstrel act.
- That's good.
1377
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:35,670
Add race-baiting.
1378
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:39,679
Sex any more? Who gives a shit?
The racial issue has replaced the sexual issue.
1379
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:41,915
- I'm the agent and you're the client.
- OK.
1380
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:45,555
Are you a Jew agent,
you filthy, hook-nosed, thieving fuck?
1381
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:47,516
Yeah.
1382
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:53,317
He goes, "A Black guy comes on and starts
sucking my cock like it's a chicken neck bone.
1383
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:58,069
This Indian comes on - you know,
Slurpee Indian, not casino Indian...
1384
01:12:58,120 --> 01:12:59,951
(Laughter)
1385
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,031
...sprinkles curry on everybody...
1386
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,511
... and starts stinking up the place.
1387
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:12,236
A spic comes on, steals everybody's wallet
and takes a shit on the stage.
1388
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:18,236
The Black guy grabs a mop, sticks it up the gay
guy's ass and mops up the fucking floor."
1389
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:21,750
The agent says,
"Holy shit, what do you guys call yourselves?"
1390
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:23,791
The fag goes, "The Aristocrats."
1391
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:28,349
One of the clich�s people often go to is...
1392
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:30,436
Now, some people do this for shock value.
1393
01:13:30,480 --> 01:13:34,075
Shock is just another uptown word for surprise.
1394
01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:38,193
Granted it has a different quality to it,
but a joke is about surprising someone.
1395
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,356
Three women of colour go to this agent.
1396
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:42,391
He goes, "What do you do?"
1397
01:13:42,440 --> 01:13:47,639
"My sister plays the cello. She plays
Chopin's Third Movement in B Minor.
1398
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:52,435
I lay on a chaise longue nude,
reading sonnets from Shakespeare.
1399
01:13:52,480 --> 01:13:56,678
My third sister paints a painting
very similar to Delacroix's The Girl."
1400
01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:58,756
He says, "Wow, what do you call this act?"
1401
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,995
She goes, "Oh, we're Nigger Cunts."
1402
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,031
You can't say that.
1403
01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:05,116
The two worst words in the world.
1404
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:08,391
I'm a great believer in context.
You can joke about anything.
1405
01:14:08,440 --> 01:14:12,194
Funny is funny. If told with a funny bone,
anything's acceptable.
1406
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,231
Let's have some fun.
1407
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:18,796
After the tragic events of January 3rd, come on.
1408
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:24,439
On January 3rd, I left my Visa
at the Four Seasons, it was like...
1409
01:14:24,480 --> 01:14:27,472
I do like finding out where the line is drawn,
1410
01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:31,308
deliberately crossing it and bringing
some of them with me across the line,
1411
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:33,157
and having them be happy that I did.
1412
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:35,191
I like to take chances,
1413
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:37,310
because I just think that you should.
1414
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:39,749
That's what comedy is all about.
1415
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:43,755
I pull up Mommy's dress,
and I put my wiener in her butt.
1416
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:47,679
And I push it into her unwilling anus.
1417
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:51,110
And I move my wiener back and forth
until stuff shoots out.
1418
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:54,072
So it's finally just a whole prolapsed rectum.
1419
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,190
It looks like an ulcerated sea snake.
1420
01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:58,708
Remember when I took you to SeaWorld? Yeah.
1421
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:01,433
And all the stuff shoots onto her face.
1422
01:15:01,480 --> 01:15:03,471
I stick my cock in her ass,
1423
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:07,399
and it's like a shillelagh,
all knotted with boils and fibrous tumours.
1424
01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:08,953
I'll show you a little bit later.
1425
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:11,833
The brother comes out.
He eats the stuff off her face.
1426
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:14,599
With his bleeding anus splattering on the crowd.
1427
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,315
We give the front row garbage bags.
Have you ever seen Gallagher?
1428
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:20,954
(Whimpers)
- Yeah, I didn't like it that much myself.
1429
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:23,116
They ate the poop off the floor.
1430
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:25,037
And he says, "Ta-da!"
1431
01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:27,548
And the man says, "The Aristocrats."
1432
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:30,910
And both of the men are probably Jews.
1433
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:37,915
There's still a joke out there
that maybe they shouldn't tell.
1434
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:39,791
Maybe they're taking a chance telling.
1435
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:43,116
Maybe they get a little bit nervous
as they start the joke.
1436
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:46,038
It means something,
even in today's day and age.
1437
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:47,991
They just get a little murmur inside,
1438
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:52,670
and I think that will be
what keeps a joke like this special.
1439
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:56,358
I never realised any of that stuff
was considered dirty.
1440
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:59,676
Before you guys got here,
I was eating a plate of my own shit.
1441
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:04,909
Hey, Mel. Do you know this joke about...
1442
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:07,190
The punch line is "The Aristocrats."
1443
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:09,231
I totally do not get it.
1444
01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:12,875
- You don't get the joke?
- Someone told it to me but I don't get it.
1445
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:15,514
The whole family's having sex with each other.
1446
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:18,154
- Is that aristocratic?
- It's more than that.
1447
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:20,191
Um...
1448
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:24,509
Yeah, I think it's best if we don't break it down.
Do you agree with that?
1449
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:34,031
No, I don't want to tell the joke.
1450
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,275
You've had way too many great people tell it.
1451
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:53,357
(Sings) The Aristocrats!
1452
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:56,878
That's great.
1453
01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:00,555
The best-Iooking ass in show business.
1454
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,876
Don't ever ask me to do another favour for you.
1455
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:09,434
I guarantee this will not wind up
on my demo tape.
1456
01:17:09,480 --> 01:17:11,869
I'm not gonna work for Disney ever again.
1457
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:14,229
Thanks a lot, Paul Provenza.
1458
01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:18,159
I once asked Dom Irrera, why does anal sex
play such a huge role in humour?
1459
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,668
He said, "I can't tell you but I can show you."
1460
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:30,349
Sarah Silverman is a young lady to watch.
1461
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:32,391
I'll keep an eye on her.
1462
01:17:32,440 --> 01:17:34,317
- You've never met her?
- No.
1463
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:38,671
Does everyone do this or not?
1464
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:40,597
All right. Fuck, shit, cunt.
1465
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:53,674
A man goes into a pub and another guy
hits him on the head with an iron bar.
1466
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:55,517
He says, "Is that serious or a joke?"
1467
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:59,473
He says, "It's serious."
"Thank God. I can't stand jokes like that."
1468
01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:05,471
Is any of this funny?
1469
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,511
Don't pan to them. Stay on me.
1470
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:11,599
Don't look at them.
There's gonna be problems. OK.
1471
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:30,472
Brunch is gonna be up in Redford's thing. 2020.
1472
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:32,511
I'll try to be alive for it.
1473
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:42,558
It's not often you talk about cunts for 10 minutes
and somebody behind a camera goes,
1474
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:44,875
"Perfect. That's exactly what we need."
1475
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:51,834
A guy sees two priests having supper together.
1476
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:56,078
He says, "I didn't know whether to send them
a bottle of wine or a cub scout."
1477
01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:13,397
The dog's name is Peanuts and she is blind.
1478
01:19:13,440 --> 01:19:15,431
She wasn't blind when we got her,
1479
01:19:15,480 --> 01:19:19,155
but we blinded her
just so she'd be a little bit more fun.
1480
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:30,512
- Er...
GEORGE: That's good.
1481
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:32,391
- Er...
- That's good.
1482
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:38,591
Is this thing on?
1483
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:48,714
(Crunches) Argh!
1484
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:02,874
To the other comedians:
I don't know what you're getting,
1485
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:06,549
but they refused to pay me
and I'm really steamed. Steamed!
1486
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:15,872
And the agent says...
1487
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:17,353
(Toilet flushes)
1488
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:23,071
What the fuck am I doing?
1489
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:36,512
- Do other people get laughs out of this?
- I think so.
1490
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:39,271
And he says, "The Aristocrats!"
1491
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:44,550
Cos it's absolutely the wrong thing
to call an act like that.
1492
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:03,551
Is it on?
1493
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:08,157
You're not taping yet really, are you?
1494
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:09,914
Goodbye!
1495
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:13,669
- The mike!
- I forgot we had the mike on.
1496
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:15,312
Try this. Ball sacks.
1497
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:19,751
I said ball sacks in front of a six-year-old girl.
They'll take my six-year-old away from me.
1498
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:22,553
Bye, Robert. Daddy loves you.
1499
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:29,390
I often sit here in my garden,
gazing into my Victorian reflecting ball, and...
1500
01:21:29,440 --> 01:21:31,908
Darling, would you get me a cup of tea?
1501
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:33,678
WOMAN: Get it yourself.
1502
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:39,512
I just want to thank you. It's so nice
to be part of this extraordinary experience.
1503
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:41,437
A rabbi walks into a bar with a frog.
1504
01:21:41,480 --> 01:21:43,391
Bartender says, "Where did you get that?"
1505
01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:46,159
The frog says,
"Brooklyn. There's hundred of 'em."
1506
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:47,599
Good luck.
1507
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,520
I feel like we're all connecting.
1508
01:21:56,120 --> 01:22:00,830
And now the world's oldest living vaudevillian
with the original Aristocratsjoke.
1509
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:10,791
(Hums to himself)
1510
01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:44,231
This way. This way.
1511
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:12,194
There are these two mountain goats and they...
1512
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:16,151
(Snores)
1513
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:19,711
Sir? Sir?
1514
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:22,351
- Sir?
- Huh?
1515
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:25,591
Thank you.
1516
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:32,351
(Hums to himself)
1517
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:39,632
The Aristocrats.
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