# The Aristocrats?

<p>Is this for real?  <cite>Vanity Fair</cite>, August 2005, p. 40:</p>

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Culled from over 100 hours of interview, <cite>The Aristocrats</cite>, a new documentary from comedian Penn Jillette (Penn &amp; Teller) and Paul Provenza, is devoted exclusively to a single joke, which, until now, was a secret rite of the stand-up circuit, performed only for comics by comics, after hours.  And with good reason: its success hinges on the description of an imaginary scene so vicserally offensive that the listener is, in most cases stunned into laughter. ... [The joke] always ends with the same, deceptively tame punch line: "We're the aristocrats!"
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