INSOMNIA THEATER (PREMIERE EDITION!): Earlier this week I posted about the upcoming world premiere of Can We Take a Joke?, a FIRE-supported feature documentary about the threats outrage culture poses to comedy and free speech. The film will premiere at DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival, on November 13 at NYC’s IFC Center, with an additional screening on Monday, November 16.
Can We Take a Joke? features interviews with comedians including Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette, Lisa Lampanelli, Adam Carolla, and Heather McDonald, as well as free speech experts and advocates like Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Jonathan Rauch and First Amendment attorneys Bob Corn-Revere and Ron Collins.
I hope you can make it to the premiere—you can purchase tickets on DOC NYC’s website! But in the meantime, if you want to know more, check out this exclusive video outtake from Penn Jillette’s interview for the film: