‘Zero one makes me have a good laugh harder than Judy Silver. If I experienced to pick one comedian to create a book about free conversation, it might be Judy.’ – Amy Schumer

From award-winning comedian Judy Gold, a concise, funny, and thoughtful polemic on the current assault on comedy, that explores how it really is undermining free talk and a simple attack against the integrity of the art.

From Mae West and Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor and Howard Stern to Kathy Griffith and Kevin Hart, comedians have long been under about Yes I COULD Say That: When They Come for the Comedians WE ARE ALL in Trouble fire for using provocative, often taboo subjects to challenge mores and get a laugh. However in the age of social networking, comedians are in greater risk of becoming silenced, enduring shaming, threats, and damaged careers because of irritated, censorious electronic mobs.

But while comedians’ work has often been used to rile up detractors, a new threat has emerged through the left: identification politics and notions like ‘safetyism’ and trigger warnings that are actually developing a cultural and political regular that works perilously near censorship. From university campuses to the Oscars, comics are becoming censured for outdated jokes, long-standing comedy traditions, unfinished pieces and old material that rather than becoming forgotten, proceed viral.

For comics like Judy Gold, today’s attacks on comics could have Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce ‘rolling within their graves.’ ‘Zero one has the proper to show comics what they can or cannot joke about. Do you tell artists what they can or cannot paint?’ she asks. Freedom of speech can be fundamental for great stand-up humor. Humor is the most palatable way to go over a subversive or taboo topic, but it better be funny. A comic’s observations are intentionally delivered to entertain, provoke, and lead to an exchange of suggestions. ‘We are truth tellers.’ Even more essential, the tolerance of free speech is vital for a healthy democracy.

Furthermore to offering readers an instant study on the history of comedy and the arts (noting such historical reference factors as The Hays Code) as well as the threats to them, Platinum takes readers on a hilarious ride with chapters such as ‘Thank God Don Rickles is Deceased,’ as well as her singular take on ‘micro-aggressions,’ such as:

Person: ‘OMG! You’re a lesbian? I had developed no idea. I mean you put on make-up. When do you feel a lesbian?’

Judy Gold: ‘Coincidently, right after I actually met you!’ (micro-assault!)

With this era of ‘fake news,’ partisan politics, and heated rhetoric, the necessity to protect totally free speech has never been greater, specifically for comics, who often serve simply because the canaries in the coalmine, monitoring the fitness of our democracy. Yes I COULD Say That is clearly a funny and provocative look at how secure spaces will be the very antithesis of humor as a skill form-and an urgent call to arms to safeguard our most fundamental Constitutional right. There’s reasonable it was the FIRST amendment.