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Hip-Hop Ex-Pat Wafeek Celebrates Paradoxes with New Albumnew
How does he reconcile the fact that he's backhanding the hype machine with one hand while hitting up one of the best-known hip-hop blogs for some cross-promotional buzz with the other?
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
12-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Raunchy, Raunchier, Raunchiestnew
The Aristocrats is the rare analysis of the workings of comedy that doesn’t destroy the humor in the process of taking it apart.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Provenza, The Aristocrats
Inside Jokenew
The hilarious new film, The Aristocrats, proves, our hesitance to offend sometimes robs humor of its vitality.
Tags: Paul Provenza, The Aristocrats
Nasty As They Wanna Be
The funniest cast in documentary history lets us in on a very dirty inside joke.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
08-18-2005 |
Reviews
Naughty by Naturenew

Aristocrats director Paul Provenza explains how and why he unleashed the world's dirtiest joke.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
08-18-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Working Bluenew
The Aristocrats goes inside the dirtiest joke ever told and reveals a nugget of unadulterated joy.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
Reviews
Film Causes Gag Reflex to Kick Innew
The Aristocrats takes a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of entertainment, but it isn't always the laugh riot you might expect. The filmmakers rely on attention-deficit editing and overlapping interviews until some jokesters' verbal rhythms are trashed.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Provenza, The Aristocrats
So This Family Walks Into a Talent Agency ...new
Bob Saget and some unlikely cohorts make fun of just about every taboo known to mankind in a film that is basically one long filthy joke, but they do it with enough skill that even shit-eating seems hilarious.
Dig Boston |
Joe Keohane |
08-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Provenza, The Aristocrats