This film feels like a home movie Penn Jillette was making. Like he carried around a camera and every time he saw someone he pulled it out and asked them about ‘The Aristocrats’ joke. The style reminded me a lot of HECKLER with Jamie Kennedy. A lot of the actual versions of the joke are very funny. I tend to like the joke but the film gives a good point counterpoint on its views within the comedy community. Still, I believe when you analyze jokes to this extent it kind of takes the fun out of it. I really think this should have been a short film as it meanders for a very long time doing the same thing over and over again. The only way it gets away with it is that all of the people interviewed are amazing comedians. The one thing that comes across is that Gilbert Gottfried is the KING of the Aristocrats joke. He is the best of part of the doc.
