DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER LAUGHTER? What would Richard Pryor make of today’s left and how they kill comedy with their obsessions over “trigger warnings,” “microagressions” and “safe spaces?” Roger Simon, who wrote the screenplay to Pryor’s Bustin’ Loose reviews Can We Take a Joke?, whose executive producer is Greg Lukianoff, fellow Insta-contributor, and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE):

Richard Pryor, genius though he was, would not be able to function. (He had a hard enough time functioning when he did, alas.)

I thought of that last night while viewing the riveting new documentary Can We Take a Joke? directed by Ted Balaker and featuring such comics as Penn Jillette, Adam Carolla and Gilbert Gottfried, not to mention vintage footage of the great Lenny Bruce. The film is about the wave of censorship of edgy comics sweeping our society in the name of “sensitivity.” In other words, as mentioned above, shut up.

More than anywhere else this affects our campuses, which have been turned into “safe spaces” for the so-called “snowflakes.” No Richard Pryors or Lenny Bruces for these sensitive souls, heaven forfend.  No jokes are allowed by these “social justice warriors” or whatever they choose to call themselves, at least not jokes they have not previously vetted.

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