SB wrote:
>On 7/26/05, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Hope nobody minds animal-oriented lightbulb jokes.
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>> How many dogs does it take to......
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>oh, thank you thank you
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You can't be serious but I'll treat it as such, with a smile:-).
The NY Times today highlighted a forthcoming documentary film called The
Aristocrats. The Aristocrats is a joke. I heard it from my best friend
back in the Bronx in 1962. It is the funniest story I've ever heard.
It is also tasteless on every level you can imagine: it is racist, and
contains descriptions of sex acts involving adults, children, and
household animals, all in various permutations and combinations. The
animals were an addition, or the version I know didn't have them yet. A
skilled comic with an audience sufficiently intoxicated can either panic
an audience or draw the interest of the police for some verbal version
of lascivious carriage.
The film...well, the film seems to be an anatomy of a joke in its many
variations. Women tell it, men tell it, and even the grotesque Gilbert
Gottfried tells it. Yes, GG is a third sex unto itself. I THINK the
point is to show how an absolutely loathesome bit works its way the
various potters' hands into artifacts you can throw at religious statues
and stained glass.
See for yourself:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/movies/29aris.html
A.O. Scott, the reviewer, describes it as filthy, disgusting, and one of
the funniest movies around--about taboos and how they can be pushed.
Don't ask me to repeat it, here or offline. It really IS that bad:-).
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman http://kenwolman.blogspot.com
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times along with the worst; where you are not allowed to forget the worst,
else you cannot be healed."--C. D. Wright
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