And still, congress wont look at gun legislation.
Everything anyone says has the potential of offending someone.
The film opens with a montage of apologies worthy of theSouth ParkBP episode.
But the outrage police keep spraying pepper.
Ellen DeGeneres was recently sued over a tit joke.
The documentary says that pressure to lighten up has been growing and its coming from unexpected places.
Can We Take a Joke?is narrated in a deadpan by comic Christina Pazsitzky.
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Bruce went to jail for comedy.
He was the last person in America to ever be convicted for telling jokes, the documentary points out.
Bruce did four months and became an icon.
(Lenny also directed and starred in a couple indie movies that featured Jake LaMotta.
Maybe the conviction should have stayed on the books as a reminder to generations to come.
Former PR exec Justine Sacco learned about bad publicity in a baptism of fire.
She ironically tweeted Going to Africa.
Hope I dont get AIDS.
Lisa Lampanelli points out that you never know what is going to be offensive.
She told gay jokes, rape jokes and worse and got complaints and heckles.
Balaker says the worst place to play is college campuses, where young people are just learning about outrage.
Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock have been bitching about college gigs for years.
Students are too sensitive.
One of the docs case studies was about Chris Lee, a student at Washington State University.
We see film footage of a performance in which several people stand up and loudly shout, Im offended!
When Lisa wonders why people would show up for the Garfunkel and Oates of jazz just to boo.
They should have interviewed Krusty.
Gilbert Gottfried is the funniest of the interviewees, probably his voice.
The Internet makes me feel sentimental about old-time lynch mobs, he says at one point.
We need silly men and women to speak truth to power because it stems the tide of dictatorship.
Sure, hed be barred on some campuses today, but someone in the doc shoulda shown their ass.
Rating:
3 out of 5
