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Title: Blah.
Review: The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza, 2005)The big secret behind the dirtiest joke ever told is this: it's not funny. Which may well be why documentarian Paul Provenza decided to spend so much of this documentary of the world's supposedly dirtiest joke on meta-- comedians talking about the joke, rather than telling it. Some of that is funny, depending on the comedian (there are some people who make a living as comics-- a very good living, probably-- and I've never been able to understand why. Quite a few of them are found here). But the joke itself and its endless variations? Nah. It makes for an interesting dissection of the world of comedians, but other than that, it's not all that hot. *
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