by Eugene Hernandez

ThinkFilm has closed a deal for Paul Provenza's Sundance American Documentary Competition entry,"The Aristocrats". The comedic doc depicts an impressive array of more than 100 comedians telling a legendarily dirty joke, improvising the material on camera.

The film was conceived by comedians Penn Jillette & Paul Provenza, and also features George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Paul Reiser, and Bob Saget, among others. Jilette and Provenza, executive producers of the film were repped in negotiations by Peter Golden of Golden Entertainment West and Ken Weinrib of Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell and Vassallo who negotiated the pact with ThinkFilm execs Jeff Sackman and Randy Manis.

"I have rarely been more excited about a film and its potential," said ThinkFilm president Sackman in a statement. "The Aristocrats" audience runs the gamut from frat boys to intellectuals, and we're going to have a great time reaching out to both ends of the spectrum and to everyone in between."

ThinkFilm, nominated for two doc Oscars this year, has "Murderball" in Sundance's doc competition and has emerged as a key distributor of docs.

“We chose ThinkFilm mostly because of their name. When you have a movie that’s this funny, it’s important to remind people with the name of your distributor what they must also do,” said Penn Jillette in a statement.