As many people know, I participated the other week in The Aristocontest at the PIT, where I and many of AWOK’s friends in sketch told some tellings of that Aristocrats joke. Well, the damn thing got reviewed in the Village Voice by Michael Musto, and I’m in the review! Check it out Here or right below!
SCAT ON A HOT TIN ROOFDina’s opener, the female sketch comedy group MEAT, was one of the acts lining up to spew obscenities at the Peoples Improv Theater’s Aristocontest, where the stage figuratively added 80 to 90 pounds of body fluids. The illustrious event had comics telling their versions of the infamous joke where a family farts and fists and felches onstage, then calls itself the Federlines, I mean the Aristocrats. We were treated to every imaginable variation on the joke—including a folk song version—with the scatological references topically spanning Katrina, 9-11, the Bush family, and “shit coming out like a giant Mister Softee machine.” Several comics went on too long, forgetting that less is whore, but all of them were so gamely goofy that by the end there was even some real vomit on the stage. The punchline of the contest? The prize was absolutely nothing. (But here’s a free gift to you: Spies tell me The Aristocrats might be bound for Broadway—you know, the Great Brown Way.)
You know what they say…any publicity is good as long as they spell your name right.
Posted by Nate Kushner at September 28, 2005 04:26 PM
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AWOK returns to the People's Improv Theatre with their third brand new show, Barnyard Jamboree!
154 W. 29th St (between 6th and 7th Avenues)
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$6. Cash only at the door. Online ticketing coming soon.
At RiFifi in a themed sketch show: "Bad Choices"
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