Are you familiar with the “Aristocrats” joke? It doesn’t resonate much, if at all, in our local idiom, and I myself don’t find it funny–at least in its most basic form. But among stand-up comics in the US, doing variations on the “Aristocrats” joke is apparently a prime test of nerve, wits and brinkmanship, because it’s designed to invite the most outrageous riffing and improvising on a basic storyline that ends with the same punchline.
As it happens, there was a documentary made in 2005 about this most vulgar of jokes, called, but of course, The Aristocrats. Some of America’s finest comedians (Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Reiser, Drew Carey, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Silverman, George Carlin, Trey Parker of South Park) appear in the movie to do their take on the gag, but the funniest version for me, bar none, is Mario Cantone’s–for one reason.
He does it a la Liza Minnelli, and it’s about her sitting on top of a piano and fitting the whole thing up her vagina(!). What he says next is absofuckinlutely brilliant, hilarious, hysterical, as he morphs into Liza Z. down to the breathless voice, the husky notes and the slightly cross-eyed look (and he’s not even in drag!).
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