The Aristocrats

When I'd finished watching this, I couldn't quite believe I actually had watched it. And liked it. It's one comic after another, spinning variations on a dirty joke. I'm not easily offended but even I occasionally was taken aback by where the joke took certain performers.

Yet, I laughed so hard I literally washed a cinder out of my eye. I'd been trying to get it out all day, to no avail. Laughter is the best medicine -- though if this joke had its way, all medication would be taken rectally.

Bob Sagat throws himself into it with absolute abandon. His version is the raunchiest. What could this do to his career? He seems to be trying to change it: I saw him last summer in an off-Broadway play. It wasn't a comedy and he was quite good. So he must be trying to reinvent himself.

I love Gilbert Gottfried and his rendition is probably the smoothest and funniest.

I'm not a televise watcher and was therefore lost as to many of the people were until they were identified at in the closing credits. It certainly isn't a documentary but it involves mostly talking heads. So the traditional manner of identifying each person as he or she first appears might have been helpful. Then again, nothing about this is conventional and who am I to make suggestions?