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Article: 'ARISTOCRATS' LETS US IN ON A JOKE.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 12, 2005
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Byline: Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News
One item in the program for last January's Sundance Film Festival definitely got my attention. As best as I can remember, it described The Aristocrats as a documentary about the world's dirtiest joke. If you can resist such a description, your wiring and mine are running in different directions.
One hundred comedians telling the world's dirtiest joke? I'm there.
So, did the movie, which more than lives up to its description, meet expectations? Only in part.
Overly long and not always funny, The Aristocrats offers the backstage pleasures of listening to comedians talk about a joke (as well ...