INSOMNIA THEATER (COMEDY DOC EDITION): This week’s post features an exclusive clip from Can We Take a Joke? a FIRE-supported feature documentary about the threats outrage culture poses to comedy and free speech. Considering everything that has been going on this week at Yale and the University of Missouri, it’s very fitting that on Friday, Can We Take a Joke? made its world premiere at DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival. There will be an additional screening of the film tomorrow, Monday, November 16.
Can We Take a Joke?, directed by Ted Balaker, is narrated by Christina Pazsitsky and 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.
If you weren’t able to make it to the film’s premiere, don’t worry— stay tuned for more news about the film by visiting the film’s Facebook page, following its Twitter account, and signing up for email updates at its website.
And, in the meantime, you can check out this exclusive video outtake from the film on IndieWire’s website.