There are many variants of this joke, though the overall structure of each variant is the same. The contract held the king to account, and a bicameral parliament ensued, containing an inherited house of lords and elected members in the house of commons. Aristocrats is a 1999 television series based on the biography by stella tillyard of the four aristocratic lennox sisters in 18th century england. Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of aristocracy and enormously entertaining reading for everyone else linda colley, observer. So begins the aristocrats, a joke kept mostly secret by standup comedians for decades. It might have been an early way to appeal to the masses, or just due to the way aristocrats tended to look down on the general public. The aristocrats joke is considered a popular one because it is very open ended and gives the person telling it a lot of room to improvise. The aristocrats is a joke so infamous amongst comedians that it got its own documentary. In 2005, jackie martlings website cited the aristocrats as appearing on page 987 of gershon legmans rationale of the dirty joke, second series, published in 1975. Finally, the the aristocrats script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the paul provenza documentary movie about the filthiest joke ever. The details of the joke change with every telling and who tells it, but the basic structure remains the same no matter what.
The aristocrats news newspapers books scholar jstor march 2017 learn how and when to remove this template message. The aristocrats uncyclopedia, the contentfree encyclopedia. Deadwood is the back story of a joke like the aristocrats and of. Oct 24, 2008 george carlin official youtube channel 6,438,3 views. Diving deep into the dirtiest joke ever in the aristocrats vulture. That way the joke would have maintained a bit more punch. Sep 11, 2009 charles spencer strives to find some humour in a history of the aristocracy.
This documentary about the worlds funniest dirty joke features over 100 standup. The republican party walks into the american peoples living rooms, and says, were the family values party, and wed like to represent you. Dec 19, 2012 the aristocrats starts out as an innocent joke about a family walking into a talent agency to demo their act and quickly turns into the dirtiest, most tasteless, and disturbing joke a comedian can tell. The aristocrats, a joke comedians keep back to tell each other or themselves, as a warmup act.
With phil harris, eva gabor, sterling holloway, scatman crothers. I have just started skimming it, and its a large book, but i will try to get through it slowly as i read mostly at bedtime, but i would recommend it to anyone who has an interest in history and the lennox sisters lives. The aristocrats is reputed to be the worlds dirtiest joke. The aristocrats is a longstanding transgressive joke amongst comedians, in which the setup and punchline are almost always the same or similar. Thats rightif you add together all the deadpool series creatively issue 45 is the big 250th issue of deadpool. With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous. As journalist jim holt notes in his history of the joke, its exactly the same jest youll find in a 18th century scottish rhyme, and a french collection from. Winner of the meilleur livre etranger, the longman history today prize, and the fawcett prize, tillyard has taught at stella tillyard is a british novelist and historian. Silverman builds the story to include her family being booked on the joe franklin show, and ends with her punch line.
I am sure the book is much better and on a positive, this series does encourage me to go out and read more about these sisters and what really happened. Bob saget the aristocrats complete video dailymotion. This film was a great introduction to the story but it was far from satisfying. Two videos of gilbert gottfried telling the vulgar aristocrats joke. Sep 01, 2005 in the aristocrats, us comics tell the dirtiest joke in history. It was a coproduction between the united kingdom, the united states, and the republic of ireland. Aug 16, 20 bob sagets aristocrats joke, its extremely messed up. A guy walks into an agents office, and says ive got a great act for you. The aristocrats are a rock supergroup formed in 2011. The aristocrats joke, republican family values style. Youre always pointing out funny stuffin literature, on youtubeso maybe you can help me figure out this book, which traces jewish comedy roughly from the book of esther through sarah silverman.
A variety of meaningful titles exist people with feudal titles are very commonly evil. An interview with stella tillyard from author of aristocrats. The series consists of six episodes of 50 minutes each and was first broadcast in the united kingdom on bbc, starting on 20 june 1999. Practically every bollywood movie has some sort of evil maharajah, sheikh or count as the antagonist. Oct 03, 2017 so glad to be discussing jeremy daubers jewish comedy. Warning not for persons under the age of 17 to watch. I understand the origin and what not of the joke example below and how every version is improvised differently each comedian trying to top each other in shock value. The aristocrats script transcript from the screenplay.
May 11, 2007 the aristocrats there is documentary which explores the history of the joke and has examples from comedians all of the world. No, this is why norm macdonald should roast obama, part 12. Penn jillette telling the funniest joke in the history of comedy duration. But the dvd mostly contain disjoint sentences, of comedianscomediennes. Bebe neuwirth and amy carlson at an event for the aristocrats 2005 adam duritz. Uk comics give the verdict on the aristocrats film the. In 2005, penn jillette and paul provenza made the aristocrats, a documentary featuring about a hundred comedians telling their own version of joke and their own stories about the history of the joke. An intentionally bad joke, the laughs in the aristocrats arent in the punchline one of the only elements thats the same every time, but in the setup, made unique by each comedian who tells it in an attempt to fashion the worlds dirtiest joke. The aristocrats is a taboodefying offcolor joke that has been told by numerous standup comedians since the vaudeville era. It was conceived and produced by comedians penn jillette, paul provenza, and peter adam golden, edited by emery emery, golden sold the aristocrats to thinkfilm who distributed and released it.
The aristocrats is one of the worlds dirtiest jokes but its certainly not the funniest. What better way to celebrate than to end the series. With myriad examples, james traces how the great men of the realm, namely aristocrats, would invoke that right to check the king, especially during the civil and religious wars. The aristocrats joke plays on this trope, the disgustingly squicky performance being triumphantly named the aristocrats. The fifth elephant by terry pratchett makes references to a marquis of fantailler, who got into a lot of fights mostly by way of being called the marquis of fantailler, and felt this entitled him to write a book. A lot of tropes have origins way back when media was still forming.
Legman retells the joke, complete with its traditional vaudevillian flourishes, although he does not attribute the joke to vaudeville roots. Who belonged to the councils of aristocrats answers. The aristocrats is an exceptionally transgressive dirty joke that has been told by numerous standup comedians since the vaudeville era. Provenza start with a simple premise and a single joke, one that has a long and esoteric history going back to vaudeville days. The band consists of guthrie govan, bryan beller, and marco minnemann. The aristocrats script transcript from the screenplay and. A history effectively digests an entire millennium of british aristocracy, from the cult of chivalry to the creaking irrelevance of peers hanging on by their gilded toenails in todays house of lords. This book was called the noble art of fisticuffs and was mostly a list of places where people werent allowed to hit him. It received publicity when it was used by gilbert gottfried during the friars club roast of hugh hefner in september 2001. Anatomy of a dirty joke the aristocrats, a documentary by magiciancomic penn gillette and comedian paul provenza, follows the genesis of the filthiest joke ever told. It starts off with 1 a family showing a talent agent their act, then transitions into 2 the family doing the act which is improvised by the comedian and is supposed to be as sick and depraved as possible, then ends with 3 the family saying the. So glad to be discussing jeremy daubers jewish comedy. Caroline, emily, louisa and sarah lennox, 17401832.
But none of these learned men are as funny as the aristocrats, or as revealing, through example and analysis, of the craft and tradition involved in what professional comedians call working blue. Jan 15, 2010 the aristocrats also known as the debonaires or the sophisticates in some tellings is an exceptionally transgressive dirty joke that has been told by numerous standup comedians since the vaudeville era. Winner of the meilleur livre etranger, the longmanhistory today prize, and the fawcett prize, tillyard has taught at stella tillyard is a british novelist and historian. The aristocrats movie of 2005 is a documentary about a legendary joke. The aristocrats also known as the debonaires or the sophisticates in some tellings is an exceptionally transgressive dirty joke that has been told by numerous standup comedians since the vaudeville era. Joe franklin controversy in the film, sarah silverman tells a version of the joke as if it were autobiographical and she had been one of the aristocrats performers as a child. Bob sagets aristocrats joke, its extremely messed up. Instrumental rockfusions rowdy new democracy over the past eight years the aristocrats have released critically acclaimed albums, toured the world, and established themselves as one of the most musically original, refreshingly irreverent, and astoundingly entertaining instrumental rockfusion acts on the planet. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of the aristocrats. The aristocrats is a taboodefying offcolor joke that has been told by numerous standup.
A variation upon the joke leaves the act completely tame, but gives it a shockingly disgusting name. Comedy obsessives love not just the jokes, but the mechanics and emotions of. Comedy veterans and cocreators penn jillette and paul provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends who happen to be some of the biggest names in. The aristocrats is a 2005 american documentary comedy film about the famous dirty joke of the same name. The aristocrats starts out as an innocent joke about a family walking into a talent agency to demo their act and quickly turns into the dirtiest, most tasteless, and disturbing joke a comedian can tell. It was conceived and produced by comedians penn jillette, paul provenza, and peter adam golden, edited by emery emery, golden sold the aristocrats to thinkfilm who distributed and released it theatrically. Aug 12, 2005 bob saget riffs on the aristocrats listen. Its also the punchline to the joke, a precis of which goes something like this. This book is fascinating and very descriptive, with many pictures, portraits of these fascinating people.
They never tell it in shows not because its a secret, and not because its too fithy, but because comedians, by. The group name is inspired by the aristocrats joke and consequently the song titles on their debut namesake albuma progressive rock compilationare rife with salacious doubleentendres. Her bestselling book aristocrats was made into a miniseries for bbc1masterpiece theatre, and sold to over twenty countries. Rip gop, may they rot in hell driftglasss version of the aristocrats joke gop style. With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country. The group name is inspired by the aristocrats joke and consequently the song titles on their debut namesake albuma progressive rock. There is the added bonus of them often being an evil christian. Anatomy of a dirty joke the aristocrats, a documentary by magiciancomic penn gillette and comedian paul provenza, follows the genesis of. A serious history with one of my favorite comedy buffs, one of my top two brothers. The aristocrats is the name of a particular joke that has been a sort of secret handshake among comedians for the better part of a century, maybe longer.
Charles spencer strives to find some humour in a history of the aristocracy. Steven wright has likened it to a secret handshake among comedians, and it is seen as something of a game in which those who tell it try to top each other in terms of shock value. Throughout its long history, it has evolved from a cliched staple of vaudevillian humor into a postmodern antijoke. While the joke isnt funny which they note during the film, the comedians talking about the joke are frequently hilarious. The movie goes through some of the history and the milieu the joke circulates in. The south park segment of the aristocrats joke, in the film, has a minor edit of the. In 2005, jackie martlings website cited the aristocrats as. By then the aristocrats was at least fifty years old, and was a legendary afterhours joke that comedians shared but never performed in public, usually vying to. The butler in the 1970 disney movie the aristocrats is named edgar balthazar. By then the aristocrats was at least fifty years old, and was a legendary afterhours joke that comedians shared. A new film called the aristocrats is about a joke, one infamous dirty joke that comedians have retold to one another for more than a century. Okay, the joke starts to wear a bit thin after 40 minutes or so, and the most interesting part isnt the joke itself, but rather the discussions and anecdotes about it and its a shame that there wasnt more of that and less of the actual joke. This makes jamie a shining example among the history of wayward british aristocrats, where rehabilitation is rarer than a noisy fart in the.
George carlin official youtube channel 6,438,3 views. Lol, if you dont like this, im sorry its hilarious and keep in mind this is the man who played the father in full house, and was host. But the dvd mostly contain disjoint sentences, of comedianscomediennes telling. Would someone explain to me the joke called the aristocrats. The aristocrats by paul provenza paul provenza, robin. Its no secret that sometimes comedy is taken a bit too seriously. The joke ends with the agent asking what the bizarre act is called, and the family replies the aristocrats. In the aristocrats, us comics tell the dirtiest joke in history. The joke was the subject of a 2005 documentary film of the same name. It is the jokes midsection which may be as long as the teller prefers and is often completely improvised that makes or breaks a particular rendition.
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