It's a family act!
Feb. 7th, 2006 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumI just rented the DVD of "The Aristocrats".
It didn't occur to me until tonight that many of these acts described within the joke are unrepeatable, in that they involve deaths, births, or the despoiling of pristine body parts such that might impair future performances. It's probably the only aspect of the joke that wasn't explored.
They glossed over the reason there are no black comics telling the joke -- Chris Rock explains that black comics worked blue throughout the 20th century, seeing as it was nigh impossible for them to get on TV anyway. As such, the joke held no fascination to them.
The biggest gap I noticed was that there were certain other classes of comics that didn't appear. I saw nobody from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, for example, and nobody similar. Nor did I see anyone who appeared regularly on Mr. Show, except for Sarah Silverman, even though most of those people went on to tour nationally and sell CD's by the truckload. On the other hand, if they'd been that exhaustive, the movie would be nine hours long, and would have been released as an incomplete work upon the death of both producers.
This makes a great rental, but don't watch it alone. It's definitely meant to be watched in a group, or even a theater. I wish I'd had the sense to get a group together while it was still playing at Harkins Valley Art.
It didn't occur to me until tonight that many of these acts described within the joke are unrepeatable, in that they involve deaths, births, or the despoiling of pristine body parts such that might impair future performances. It's probably the only aspect of the joke that wasn't explored.
They glossed over the reason there are no black comics telling the joke -- Chris Rock explains that black comics worked blue throughout the 20th century, seeing as it was nigh impossible for them to get on TV anyway. As such, the joke held no fascination to them.
The biggest gap I noticed was that there were certain other classes of comics that didn't appear. I saw nobody from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, for example, and nobody similar. Nor did I see anyone who appeared regularly on Mr. Show, except for Sarah Silverman, even though most of those people went on to tour nationally and sell CD's by the truckload. On the other hand, if they'd been that exhaustive, the movie would be nine hours long, and would have been released as an incomplete work upon the death of both producers.
This makes a great rental, but don't watch it alone. It's definitely meant to be watched in a group, or even a theater. I wish I'd had the sense to get a group together while it was still playing at Harkins Valley Art.
