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Can We Take a Joke?
Description
In the age of social media, nearly every day brings a new eruption of outrage. The documentary explores how outrage mobs have ruined our ability to recover from tragedies and reduced the genuine assistance victims receive.
In the age of social media, nearly every day brings a new eruption of outrage. The documentary explores how outrage mobs have ruined our ability to recover from tragedies and reduced the genuine assistance victims receive.
Actors:
Jim Norton,
Bob Corn-Revere,
Jon Ronson,
Christina Pazsitzky,
Penn Jillette,
Heather McDonald,
Lisa Lampanelli,
Adam Carolla,
Karith Foster,
Greg Lukianoff,
Noam Dworman,
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Jim Norton
19 July 1968, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Bob Corn-Revere

Jon Ronson
10 May 1967, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Christina Pazsitzky

Penn Jillette
5 March 1955, Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA

Heather McDonald

Lisa Lampanelli
19 July 1961, Trumbull, Connecticut, USA

Adam Carolla
27 May 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA

Karith Foster

Greg Lukianoff

Noam Dworman
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Ted Balaker

Ted Balaker
Country:
United States
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August 01, 2016
The ideas presented are more complex than Can We Take A Joke? is able to fully address, but they are ideas that desperately need to be discussed.
July 28, 2016
"Can We Take a Joke?" ... poses a valid question at a juncture when freedom of speech is a hot topic, especially where the Internet is concerned.
August 01, 2016
The answer isn't necessarily one way or the other, but Can We Take a Joke? doesn't explore this societal issue with any depth or nuance.
August 14, 2016
Overstates its case to a nearly comical degree, as a group of comedians claim censorship that doesn't exist (Splice Today)
August 01, 2016
A cautionary tale bemoaning the chilling effect of political correctness on free speech.
August 02, 2016
Tackles a vital and provocative question, without a variety of different answers, it feels incomplete and unbalanced.
July 29, 2016
Plays as if you've been invited to read half of a courtroom transcript -- the defense's half -- while skipping past redacted text that might have complicated or undermined the argument.
July 28, 2016
It's not the state that has turned against them; it's audiences.
August 01, 2016
Interesting as it is, but it would have been much better had it really grappled with the complexities of the issue it raises rather than presenting it in a cut-and-dried way.
July 28, 2016
It would be better if it ... at least acknowledged the possibility that some jokes ought not be told.
August 02, 2016
A sporadically interesting yet terminally unfocused documentary...
July 21, 2016
It's all awfully dispiriting.