Check Out The Trailer for Anti-Outrage Documentary Can We Take a Joke?
Comedian Lenny Bruce was the last American to face jail time for telling dirty jokes on stage. Those days of outright government censorship of comedy may be far behind, but is there a new sort of censorship on the rise?
The new documentary Can We Take a Joke? takes a closer look at the rise of "outrage culture" and what effect it might be having on standup comedy, open discourse, and free speech in America. The film will be in select theaters on July 29th and available on iTunes August 2. It was directed by former Reason staffer Ted Balaker and produced in association with Reason TV. Check out the new trailer below, as well as Reason editor Nick Gillespie's interview with Balaker about the themes of the movie.
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“Free speech is extremely important, because me bing a Jew, I don’t want to have to pay for speech.” -Gilbert Gottfried.
I like that bit where Jim Jefferies deals with that drunk heckling couple.
“Don’t worry, I’m not going to make fun of your wife’s looks… God already did that.”
So these well-paid comedians want to put out of a job all the workers down at the outrage plant.
It’s a multibillion dollar unregulated industry. I say we legalize it and tax it… bring it out of the shadows.
I so want to make a 2 Live Crew joke at their expense, but I am so respected, that it would damage this site for me to type it. /ziff
Boy did Lampanelli lose a lot of fat.
But enough about her boyfriend.
Hiyooo!!!
Look, perpetually aggrieved malcontents don’t have a sense of humor. So you’re not allowed to have one either. If you do, it’s a micro-aggression and hate speech. Stop being happy, be miserable, because the malcontents are miserable. That’s equality, now get miserable, or else.
Just dropped in to make the point that there is a huge difference between legal (i.e. government censorship) and cultural censorship. One word, but basically two different meanings. That is all.
Of course there is mob censorship with government complicity as well. Protect my speech or allow me to. I’m happy to do it myself but then don’t arrest me.
How does any great joke begin?
By looking over your shoulder.
So, a priest, a rabbi, an imam, an Englishman, a Jew, an Indian, and a…wait, I messed it up, anyway…The Aristocrats!
So why did the guy screw sheep? Because he’s Scottish, and those Scots are sheepfuckers!
Ha ha ha.
Wait, I stepped all over that joke, let me try again.
So there’s this guy from another country, and he’s really stupid, and…confound it, I can’t seem to get it right!
Anyway, order now while it’s still legal!
OK, one more:
If Americans are so intolerant of tasteless jokes, why do we keep electing them to office?
So I watched the Trailer. I would pay fifty bucks to watch Gilbert Gottfried insinuate that a Mexican guy’s wife was a whore. Right to the guy’s face, I mean.
Bobby Slayton used to host The Nasty Show at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. He pissed off everyone; which means he did a great job.
Enough things that happen every day piss me off free of charge. When I pay money, I want to be amused.
Well he was funny in the process if that’s what you mean.
RE: Check Out The Trailer for Anti-Outrage Documentary Can We Take a Joke?
Of course we can take a joke.
Just look at the three idiots running for president.
I’m confused.
We’re constantly told that social condemnation and ostracization is the appropriate response to behavior we don’t like.
And here’s an example of where it’s worked: Americans, as a group and absent any government action, are driving certain behaviors the unpopular fringe through social action.
And libertarians/Libertarians are talking about it like this is a bad thing. Isn’t this *exactly* what you folks have been saying people should do? Why are you guys so mad over being proved right?
‘Absent any government action” Think about that.
The idea of “free speech” is indeed a joke. Would anyone seriously claim to defend the “First Amendment dissent” signed by a single, isolated liberal judge in America’s leading criminal “satire” case? Balaker and Gillespie themselves know better; after all, neither of them would want to become the laughing-stock of the legal community. See the documentation at:
http://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/