Audiences have not decided how to characterize “The Aristocrats,” but trying to describe this movie, documentary and piece of art produces a challenge that many should cover their ears for.

The film centers around one infamous joke with the punch line, “the aristocrats.” The beginning and end of the aristocrats joke usually stays the same, but the core remains up to the discretion of the teller. Comedy veterans Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza see the discretionary detail as an opportunity to produce an entire film documenting how comedians tell this one obscene joke.

Comedians like George Carlin and Paul Reiser analyze the joke to death, as they describe how perfect the aristocrats can be with its two-word punch line, open middle and shock value.

With over 100 comedian cameos throughout the film, rarely do you hear the joke from one person beginning to end. The entertainment comes from how the filmmakers choose to scramble bits and pieces together to serve as an assessment of how the joke is told.

The overall point is the more crudely, disturbingly and politically incorrectly a person can tell the aristocrats, the better and more comically it is received.The film provides no plot or climax and it does not even have characters, but I will guarantee you will laugh at things you never thought you would laugh at.

So as curiosity kills the cat (which probably happens somewhere in the joke), people cannot help but see this movie, if for no other reason than to find out exactly who the aristocrats are.