New Trailer for Can We Take a Joke?

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Ricochet: New Trailer for Can We Take a Joke?

Jon Gabriel, Ed. June 6, 2016 23 COMMENTS

Ricochet contributor Greg Lukianoff has written about the upcoming film concerning the humorless outrage brigades threatening comedy and free speech itself. Now, after appearing at several festivals, the first trailer for Can We Take a Joke? is out, promoting a July 29 release. The movie stars comedians Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette, Jim Norton, Lisa Lampanelli, Heather McDonald, Adam Carolla, and Karith Foster, all of whom are pushing back on safe-space enthusiasts and the easily offended.

Comedians have always been the canaries in the coalmine of free speech laws. If a person can be silenced over a joke, the rest of us have no chance of freely speaking our minds. I became painfully aware of this fact when I infiltrated a social justice comedy seminar at the progressive Netroots Nation conference in Detroit.