The Aristocrats is fucking amazing. If you can stand strong language and dirty (scatological!) jokes, see it.
Misreading this as the AristoCATS causes all sorts of confusion...
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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Sophia Brooks - Feb 12, 2006 12:24:15 pm PST #483 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Betsy HP - Feb 12, 2006 12:30:13 pm PST #484 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
They joke about that in the movie, too.
Jessica - Feb 12, 2006 12:35:12 pm PST #485 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I thought it was a fascinating concept, but not a great film. (It was incredibly annoying, for example, to spend most of the movie being told about the joke without letting us just hear the damn thing.) And while I understand that the godawful camerawork was partly a side effect of the way it was made, tripods are neither expensive nor difficult to use.
Still, it did give rise to one of my all-time favorite taglines. ("Reporter: And what do you call this government? Bush: The Aristocrats!")
Sophia Brooks - Feb 12, 2006 12:38:57 pm PST #486 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Jessica, is your taglaine some sort of portmanteau of Felicity Huffman and William H Macy?
Jessica - Feb 12, 2006 12:45:18 pm PST #487 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yep -- it's from the Colbert Report, Sophia, during the Valentine's Day segment "Stephen's Laws of Love." Law 1 was to have names that mix together well, and his examples were Brangelina, Bennifer, and Filliam H Muffman. I had to pause the Tivo because I couldn't stop laughing. (And then I had to pause it again when he cracked up -- it was just too much.)
Sophia Brooks - Feb 12, 2006 1:00:10 pm PST #488 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
that is hysterical. I wish I still had cable!
Jessica - Feb 12, 2006 1:31:04 pm PST #489 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You can watch it on comedycentral.com here.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 12, 2006 1:37:24 pm PST #490 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Nobody I've referenced "Filliam H. Muffman" to, in the context of Brangelina and Bennifer2, has not lost their shit. It's the kryptonite of portmanteau celebrity couple names.
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2006 2:03:40 pm PST #491 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I loved the discussion about the joke in The Aristocrats, but I'm all about the analysis of humour.
Humour and killing people. That's what I like to dissect. Still, gives me less of a body count than my mother.
Betsy HP - Feb 12, 2006 2:05:46 pm PST #492 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
(It was incredibly annoying, for example, to spend most of the movie being told about the joke without letting us just hear the damn thing.)
Huh. Didn't George Carlin tell it in full at the beginning?
My disappointment was not getting to see more of wossname's performance at the Friars Club; that was where I'd really have liked to have seen more and been told less. My guess is that they could only get rights to a little of it.