soapbox

Having been reminded of the Aristocrat Joke this afternoon, I went hunting for a Washington Post article on the documentary a few months back… it’s remarkable in a couple ways. First, how sick/funny/gross the thing (things?) is, and then specifically the bit about Gilbert Gottfried’s telling soon after 11th Sept 2001:

…they consider Gilbert Gottfried the modern master. We remember Gottfried from his appearances on “The Hollywood Squares,” but in the movie Gottfried is shown appearing at a Friars roast of Hugh Hefner, soon after the 9/11 attack. Gottfried, like other comics that night, was having trouble finding his footing in the aftermath of tragedy. And then he just went for it and told the “Aristocrats” joke.

The place exploded. Jillette compared the performance to the artistry of Picasso, Miles Davis and Stravinsky.

The police chief of the Tohono O’odham Nation, upon which Kitt Peak is located, said that they’ve had a number of reports of undocumented immigrants (BTW, is this PC for illegals?) placing obstacles, if not themselves, in narrow roadways, and stealing people’s cars when they stop and get out, sometimes assaulting them as well.