- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2005
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Non-fiction
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- All.
- Premiss:
- One hundred comedians tell the same filthy private joke.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Compassion
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Empathy
- Evolution
- Friendship
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loneliness
- Loyalty
- Mercy
- Narcissism
- Personal change
- Political Correctness
- Pornography
- Redemption
- Self-expression
- Solipsism
- White culture
- White guilt
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Documentary about the essence of humour through the prism of the world’s filthiest joke.
This single joke has everything comedy purposes and proposes: Personal catharsis, political satire and the attempted breaking of taboos through shocking audiences with their own, unadmitted, thoughts. As with pornography, style is more important than content - and often becomes the same thing.
This gag assumes the proportion of a game of Chinese Whispers in its being performable to suit any comedian’s style. This demonstrates the power of human imagination & creativity and the need for polymorphous perversity (ie, no censorship) for such activity to fully flower.
The relationship between the improvisational features of jazz and that of humor is sketched out in this determination of the nature of comedy.
Not a film for those with sense-of-humour failure.
Copyright © 2014 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute this posting in any format; provided mention of the author’s Weblog (Esthetics) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved.
No comments:
Post a Comment