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It's a test for comedians and their delivery. If you've ever seen someone try to tell an Aristocrats joke in person who has a poor sense of comedic timing and delivery it just comes off creepy and weird. It's a sink or swim joke. If you can make people laugh you're good, if you can't, you aren't. I wouldn't tell an Aristocrats joke, there's no one I could without it being loving weird and creeping people out. I know my comedic limits.
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It's not your comedic ability buddy, it's the aristocrats keeping you down!
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Jun 10, 2022 04:07
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It’s a good example of a joke where the journey is meant to be better than it’s destination. In a way, the more outlandish and gross you make the body of the joke, the more it juxtaposes against the the underwhelming vaudevillian punchline. So you’re creating that friction between the excessive lewdness of the present and the tame punchline of the past. Comedy is all about exaggeration and surprise, and the Aristocrats embodies that pretty well. You have this insanely exaggerated setup that leads to a surprise anti-joke punchline. In this case, if you think about the reaction you want from your audience, it makes more sense to have them laugh as hard as possible at the setup because there’s no way you can stick a punchline at the end of the Aristocrats that would make someone laugh even harder than they did during the setup. So rather than having the audience give a forced pity chuckle at a flat punchline you’ve spent five or ten minutes building up to, you go fully anti joke with it so you end with the audience saying, “WHAT!?” Confused exclamations are a better reaction than silence.
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Jun 10, 2022 04:12
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It's also funny because aristocrats are superficially concidered to be prim and proper but if you know anything about history you realize they're by and large some of the most depraved and hosed up assholes that exist. So it's like, funny on 2 levels.
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Jun 10, 2022 04:22
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ok but really who are the aristocrats? its as easy as following the money... do your own research.
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Jun 10, 2022 04:26
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Knock knock Who's there? The aristocrats and they're dressed like Hitler and seig heil-ing and saying the N-word and other slurs ALOT. Also they are loving each other and making GBS threads while theyre loving and a few of them are related and one of them gave birth while loving and the other one stomped it and ate it and then said something really disparaging about Mexicans. Poohs Packin fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Jun 10, 2022 05:29
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If someone ever tells you knock knock tell them that you open the door, take the joke away from them
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Jun 10, 2022 05:42
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Here's a good joke from Norm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo
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Jun 10, 2022 05:55
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You can say whatever vile things lurk deep within your soul and it is all fine as long as you say those two words. It is like letting out a personality fart and then pardoning yourself. Everyone's posting is dumb and silly and I don't like it The Aristocrats! 
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Jun 10, 2022 05:57
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Also "It's a work in progress" when you get to name the act is way funnier and makes a lot more sense to most people because it implies it can get worse
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Jun 10, 2022 05:59
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GreatGreen posted:George Carlin thought “The Sophisticates” was a better name for the joke, according to the documentary about the joke. That makes sense. The problem is none of that is inherently funny since like 1913
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Jun 10, 2022 06:29
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ive never laughed at a telling of the aristocrats
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Jun 10, 2022 06:38
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Its a joke for weird pasty theatre kids
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Jun 10, 2022 06:40
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It seems like with all these different and convoluted explanations for the joke that maybe nobody really gets it and that, like me, you were all just too embarrassed to admit it.
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Jun 10, 2022 07:07
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Funky See Funky Do posted:It seems like with all these different and convoluted explanations for the joke that maybe nobody really gets it and that, like me, you were all just too embarrassed to admit it. How about this, OP? I think you understand the joke perfectly. Therefore your logic fails and I am not embarrassed about this.
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Jun 10, 2022 07:43
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Devils Affricate posted:Has anyone done an ironic aristocrats routine where all of the acts described are completely harmless/wholesome? I feel like that would be the next step. At the end instead of calling it The Aristocrats you could pull another switcheroo and call it The Buttfuckers or something to maintain the title-content dissonance except the other way around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfaKld5ahfw StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Jun 10, 2022 07:46
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Jun 10, 2022 07:52
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Devils Affricate posted:How about this, OP? I think you understand the joke perfectly. Therefore your logic fails and I am not embarrassed about this. What are you insinuating?
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Jun 10, 2022 08:23
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Funky See Funky Do posted:What are you insinuating? You get the joke. It's funny to you. You can't stop laughing about it.
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the one time we needed jimmyjams to snipe a thread and he isn't even here shameful Pastel Candy Snake fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Jun 10, 2022 08:29
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syntaxfunction posted:It's a test for comedians and their delivery. If you've ever seen someone try to tell an Aristocrats joke in person who has a poor sense of comedic timing and delivery it just comes off creepy and weird. It's a sink or swim joke. If you can make people laugh you're good, if you can't, you aren't. I have had people get mad at me for just referencing a particular joke with the punchline "With God's help and a stick..."
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Jun 10, 2022 08:49
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I played the clip of Gilbert Gottfried doing The Aristocrats to a couple of friends, and laughed all the way through it. They didn't laugh at all. I asked them why and they said because they have children of their own.
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Jun 11, 2022 00:46
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Hit a person with a baseball bat and then tell them they are stupid for letting it happen, op. You know who else physically beats down their lessers while gloating over them?
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Jun 11, 2022 00:57
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if you don't get the joke it means that you're the aristocrat op
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Jun 11, 2022 01:17
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BigBadSteve posted:I played the clip of Gilbert Gottfried doing The Aristocrats to a couple of friends, and laughed all the way through it. They didn't laugh at all. I asked them why and they said because they have children of their own. loving lmao
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Jun 11, 2022 01:19
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BigBadSteve posted:I played the clip of Gilbert Gottfried doing The Aristocrats to a couple of friends, and laughed all the way through it. They didn't laugh at all. I asked them why and they said because they have children of their own. That means they can do their own performance of The Aristocrats!
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Funky See Funky Do posted:It seems like with all these different and convoluted explanations for the joke that maybe nobody really gets it and that, like me, you were all just too embarrassed to admit it. Thanks for asking the question, OP. I never really got it, either. but basically a comedian describes some raunchy, narsty stuff going on with some people. Like loving a pig, and then pegging a fuckboi, and peeing from the balcony on the pegger, pigger, and fuckboi. Then the comedian goes "The Aristocrats!" implying that the upper nobility do nasty poo poo. making fun of the upper class. from everything I can tell. Thanks FSFD.
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Jun 11, 2022 02:36
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My grandma finds the joke funny but she's in her 80s and for some reason poop and sex humor tends to be funnier the closer you are to death
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Jun 11, 2022 02:40
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Aesop Poprock posted:My grandma finds the joke funny but she's in her 80s and for some reason poop and sex humor tends to be funnier the closer you are to death I must be mere hours from death then.
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Jun 11, 2022 02:51
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Poohs Packin posted:Knock knock
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Devils Affricate posted:Has anyone done an ironic aristocrats routine where all of the acts described are completely harmless/wholesome? I feel like that would be the next step. At the end instead of calling it The Aristocrats you could pull another switcheroo and call it The Buttfuckers or something to maintain the title-content dissonance except the other way around.
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Jun 11, 2022 03:43
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pee pee poo poo the aristocrats
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The adicktosucks
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BigBadSteve posted:I played the clip of Gilbert Gottfried doing The Aristocrats to a couple of friends, and laughed all the way through it. They didn't laugh at all. I asked them why and they said because they have children of their own. If you have children then you aren't able to laugh at dirty jokes anymore.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:I must be mere hours from death then. God bless
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Pennywise the Frown posted:If you have children then you aren't able to laugh at dirty jokes anymore. My parents convinced me that the word for fart was "foof" and that shoot was a swear word I guess just to make sure I was extremely embarrassed once I was exposed to children who had older siblings and knew better
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Jun 11, 2022 04:23
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How Christian was your family? tbh I was like 7 and we moved into a new house and my mom asked me how I liked it and I got upset and said "IT SUCKS!" and omg her face lit up in a bad way.
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Not religious at all. My mom's favorite term when something goes wrong is "poo poo balls" so I don't know why I got the closeted upbringing
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"Aristocrat" is kind of an old-timey word at this point and makes people think there might be some context that they're missing. Also, a lot of people's idea of an "aristocrat" being a snobby prim and proper Monopoly guy is so unshakable that the punchline will just come off random, or even that the joke is "political."
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