![]() ![]() George Carlin, who comes across as the senior theoretician of this phenomenon, offers the closest thing to a justification for this torrent of obscenity when he speaks of "the joy of saying something that violates someone's boundaries." (NR) 90 min. Only the opening and the punch line are set in stone the middle, in which the act itself is described, can be infinitely varied and endlessly extended. But in the hands of the master comics who retell it, it's like a simple musical phrase in which a classical composer or jazz musician can discover limitless possibilities. While pretty funny, it isn't much in itself. ![]() To get the ball rolling, old-timer Jay Marshall tells the joke in its sparest possible form. "The Aristocrats" It's a 90-minute onslaught of almost unbroken obscenity served up by comedians as they put their own perverse spin on a joke that, until now, has been something of a trade secret among comics going back to the days of vaudeville. ![]()
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