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- Stentorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sad to say the movie wasn't AS funny as I thought it would be. It was good, but other then Gilbert, Sarah Silverman and Bob Saget, I wasn't dying laughing.
I only quickly glanced at this guy's article but he doesn't mention Paul Provenza, the guy who actually made this movie. As far as I know the joke is real. And if not who cares, is there really wool being pulled over our eyes, do lives changes if this was a lie? - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've heard The Aristocrats joke several times: it's a somewhat commonplace comedy club thing. The point of the joke is not that it's funny (it ain't), it's just the comedian up there making up the dirtiest nastiest thing he can think up, on the spur of the moment, sort of thing.
Whether it's a recent invention or an old Vaudville gag, I'm not sure, but I know for a fact that I had heard it before Penn started up the hype machine on his movie 4 years ago.
And Gilbert Godfried was not the "first" to tell it in public, by any stretch of the imagination. He was probably the first to tell the joke in a recorded medium. The reason it never got print or anything before 2001 was that nobody would tell the thing when they were being taped or recorded, because they probably wouldn't be able to broadcast the thing if they did. I mean, most retellings of the joke definitely fall afoul of indecency laws in many locations.
In any case, I have no actual hard evidence to offer this guy. I know he's wrong, but I can't back it up. It's a nice theory, but ultimately a false one. - OIF2_IFTE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1southpark can make anything good.
- finkstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Donwilson: Please excuse my curt response. The author's reasoning is that he has never heard of the joke before, did a smattering of research -- which I imagine was the author cracking open Drew Carry's joke book at Borders -- a response like the one I left above would be enough. You see, the author reasoning that his experiences are the end all and be all in the world is bad reasoning, if not arrogant, and really shouldn't be taken seriously.
Let me give you an example: The Moon. I believe it's not real. In fact, I think it's a liberal conspiracy to take away our guns. Think about it: who had ever heard of the moon before the 20th century? No one. The book I looked in confirmed this. Now, I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist and I'd love to be proved wrong, but who was the first person to draw attention to the moon? John F. Kennedy, a liberal. You decide.
You see? If I were to post this idea on, say, a community website, I would expect to be laughed off the site.
Please forgive me for this long-winded response. I hope that I clarified and ambiguity about my comment. - SuperRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"... and then the Nun says, 'Fifty bucks, same as in town!'"
- PercyKittenz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Finkstar, what kind of analysis is that? You're comparing something that was well researched and publicized to something that nobody's supposed to know about yet? The post was written as a hypothesis based on what he's found, not a fact-checked argument to try to convince people of something. He even asks that people find evidence to counter his idea because he's not even sure that it's true. It's just something to think about. You come in and make something you consider a statement of fact, but you still haven't proven anything.
And for clarification, Lore Sjoberg ran the very popular humor site, The Brunching Shuttlecocks and now writes video game reviews for Wired. - jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is this an attempt at astroturfing "The Aristocrats" ?
- Cyborg771, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man that is one bad joke. I really think it would be funnier if it was just made up recently.
- korteenea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The joke isn't even funny. I wouldn't put it past Penn to have made it up.
- daze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0is an "internet humorist" someone that is only funny online?
- digitaltrav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dugg the Southpark version, and I will digg this because I had never heard of this before, and I learned something.
- fartonmyear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0is this joke supposed to be funny or just strange?
- piisexactly3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0honestly though, who cares if it is a made up mythology? The movie looks GREAT!
- retr0spectiv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Anyone seen Penn & Teller's excellent '*****!' episode about the War on Drugs?
- finkstar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0No. No it's not.
The end. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Thanks for the excellent evidence, finkstar.
- itsjake88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I dont care if its a hoax or not, the movie looks funny and Penn Jillette is like my favorite atheist.
- ProAm500, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I just think its gross and nowhere near funny myself..
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