Gilbert Gottfried: Dirty Jokes... Truly Tasteless Joke Book The Movie
Added 11/16/2009
Gilbert Gottfried: Dirty Jokes: 4 out of 10: Notice the concert film is called Dirty Jokes not funny jokes. I also put concert film in quotes because this is the most disinterested collection of Yuppies I have ever seen. The audience often groans or at the very least sits in an impatient silence during Gottfrieds performance.
Not that Gottfried does not give them reason to squirm. His jokes are dirty... that was a given, but quite often they simply are not all that funny. Part of the problem is many of these moldy chestnuts are probably older than Gottfried himself. It is as if he was giving an X-rated Jack Benny routine.
The culmination of this collection of tasteless one-liners is yet another rendition of the Aristocrats joke. If you missed that dead horse-beating documentary The Aristocrats, the joke is a ten-minute collection of the most scatological collection of images followed by a shaggy joke punch line. The joke (like most shaggy dog humor) only works if you are not expecting it. Here it falls horribly flat with an audience that is clearly bored.
If you want to see the funniest version of the joke fast forward towards the end the The Aristocrats and their is a hilarious (and historical) version told in front of a squirming Hugh Hefner a few weeks after 9/11. The brilliant comedian who pulled of this unlikely triumph?... Gilbert Gottfried.
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Incomarable + 1
Added 7/8/2009
My only complaint with this DVD from the "Great Gottfried" is that I can't remember more than 3 or 4 jokes to tell people afterwards! This thing is so packed with good, dirty stuff you cannot possibly remember them all even after ten or more viewings. Folks, that's what I call value for money! It's an absolute classic, period, dot.
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Funnier Than I Imagined
Added 6/2/2008
How funny can a guy telling 45 dirty be? The answer is very funny. Gilbert truly has the delivery of these down pat, and the material is top notch. It is often said that telling jokes on stage is comedy suicide... Gilbert breathes new life into the profession with this DVD however.
The Bonus material is priceless. I've seen few people who can improv on a topic like Gilbert can, he goes on and on and on with side splitting material.
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ONE OF THE RAUCHIESY AND FUNNIEST STAND-UPS IN A LONG TIME!
Added 2/10/2008
I have never been a big fan of Gilbert Gottfried but, I never hated him either. I do remember a small bit he did years ago about Moby Dick that I thought was hilarious but, that was about it. In this newer stand-up Gilbert takes a lot of old stale jokes and turns them into new fresh and often side splittingly funny routines. I was doubled over with laughter many times during this 48 minute set. This set is extremely dirty and we hear some of our favorite curse words frequently so, if the C or F word bothers you,........don't watch this! If they don't, then grab a beer and some friends and get ready to laugh your A** off! I rate it 4 1/2 stars
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The AFLAC Duck gets down and dirty
Added 11/7/2007
You absolutely must be a Gottfried fan to appreciate the humor in this DVD. You may also want to take a sterilizing bath after viewing it. Profane, infantile, but funny, the moments are memorable. You may not want to repeat any of these jokes, though.
I was a bit disappointed by what was billed as the world's dirtiest joke: the joke is merely the f-bomb liberally tossed in at every opportunity. The whole premise of the joke is lost in the senseless profanity.
Aa a final warning, watch this with a significant other if and only if she has a thick skin, having been raised in a family of boys, whose father was a truck driver and whose mother slung hash at a dive truckers avoid.
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straight-ahead, fusion, or free?
Added 8/3/2009
It's a documentary about comedians, their personalities using the motif of a joke. Very cool concept analogous to a jazz composition. It does lag in the middle but finished strong. The best interpretation of the joke in my mind was the mime (which is ironic because usually don't find mimes very funny or entertaining). Kevin Pollack's performances are brilliant as well. Some note that the jump cut editing and the interruptions of the joke by the tellers is a nuisance, I disagree as it keeps it the joke, and with it, the film from being redundant. "Why all the negative reviews?", you might ask? Because clearly those reviewers just don't get "it". Watch for yourself and think for yourself.
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I love Disney Movies
Added 7/30/2009
The Aristocrats: 3 out of 10: The joke in the Aristocrats is not funny. (Many comedians on tape admit this outright.) It really is not a joke as much as a Shaggy Dog story. The funny part of a Shaggy Dog story is watching someone squirm who thinks it is a normal joke. The more you can make a (in this case) prude squirm the funnier the raunch is.
The funniest scene in the movie is Gilbert Gottfried's masterful and legendary telling of the joke at the Fryers Club soon after 9/11. What makes it funny is watching a surprising prudish and confused Hugh Hefner's reaction listening to the joke. (The exact performance would not be as funny if Larry Flynt for example was on the dais. And the filmed performance wouldn't work had not Hefner not been shown in frame.) The Gottfried performance comes late in the film and we are treated to dozens of top comedians wasted telling the same joke sans victim. Moreover, since the audience by this time is intimately familiar with the mechanics of the magic this is true tedium. In addition, most of the comedians telling the joke do so to the camera with no audience in sight. There is an actual reason that most comedy routines are in a concert film style performance before a live audience.
There is a lot of top-flight talent here. Drew Carey, Robin Williams, George Carlin among others yet it is a mime (Steven Banks) that tells the joke most creativity and Bob Saget who tells the most disgusting version. Honestly, the film shoots its um... Gun much too soon in the feature and nothing removes humor from something faster than explaining it.
There are some self serving insights about comedy in general and some so called inside stuff that by its very nature isn't but the majority of the film really is dozens of comics telling the same joke over and over again that wasn't all that funny to begin with.
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LAME JOKE! (The Movie).
Added 7/14/2009
How many comedians it takes to tell a bad joke right?
A.- None.
B.- Too damn many, if you ask me.
C.- Three: Richard Jeni, the mime, and the guy with the cards.
D.- All of the above.
Answer: D.
(Bada Boom!)
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