This is simply the most disgusting, horrific, obscene thing I've ever seen or heard! It's so "in-your-face" I couldn't help but stay riveted to it, the entire video and all its sub-sections. The very fact that Penn Gillette & his friend would spend 4 years putting it together, says a lot about how perverse our scociety has become. I Love it! This is precisely the exact stuff my friend & I would dream up and act out in our impromptu comic skits when we were teenagers! Where was Penn Gillette & his recording equipment 40 years ago? I've come to a new admiration of Gilbert Gottfried, until now he ranked just one notch above Pauly Shore on my "can't f$%^&g stand'em" list. But Now I see he KNOWS what he sounds like, how he comes across (no pun intended!) and how to piece together a line and a joke! He's Good! On a somber note, now that George Carlin has passed away, His clips in the video stand in testimony to the elder spokesman of a generation! The performers, one and all, every last one of 'em, get a standing F*** Y*** for their contributions to this classic!

I watched this to hear the joke. No, I've never heard it. George Carlin gave what is probably the original or basic version and I almost left right then.If I had, then I would have missed the variations. I am not saying that any of them were worth listening to, but I guess you have to know. It's like looking at a car wreck. Why? Just because.The most telling bit was Lewis Black: That's, that's actually, a really great idea to pitch to a network. I can walk into NBC tomorrow and say I have a dysfunctional family idea. So dysfunctional, it defies description. We have guys f*cking and sucking, blowing armadillos, diddling like an 11-year old cheerleader. We can bring in people from the past, because we can do that now you know they got those commercials with Humphrey Bogart and all that other bullsh*t. And bring back f*cking major world leaders of the past 60 years, like Hitler. Mussolini. Genghis Kahn, for god sakes. I just thought of that and that's unbelievable. This is not a joke, this would go on TV. And we blow Hitler, then next episode, we bite his dick off, ha ho! See what happens to Hitler's dick. That'll be turning it on. Phenomenal.With the trash that they have on TV now, it would not be so weird.

You know how it really takes value off a joke when the teller laughs at the joke him/herself? Well, imagine looking at this for one and a half hours? Try to include the fact that the joke is really bad and that half of the content is people commenting their reactions to other people telling this lousy joke? Well, that's what this movie is all about, and that results in the most boring and least thought-provoking piece of crap I've ever seen on a DVD.If you like to see Hollywood people talking true obscenities, you might get something out of this, but otherwise I suggest skipping this. In any case a couple of minutes from the beginning (or in fact from any part) of the film already show what it's all about.I've rated 280 films on IMDb so far, and this is the only one I've ever given a 1/10.

A documentary about an infamous joke that has done the rounds for decades amongst comedians but has rarely had a public airing. This is probably because, despite a roll call of some of comedy's biggest names, the joke just isn't very good, it's cult in-joke status can be the only reason for its longevity. This is however a likable film, which does have its funny moments, a particular highlight being the South Park telling of the joke, just don't believe the hyperbole of the DVD cover: "you'll laugh till it hurts" (rolling stone)... "one of the funniest movies ever" (hotdog)... "howlingly funny" (New York daily news) these people really should get out more.