In Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians We’re All In Trouble comedy veteran Judy Gold argues that “no one has the right to tell comics what they can or cannot joke about...laughter is a unifier. It’s the best medicine. It’s also the most palatable way to bring up seditious, subversive topics.”

For Gold, nothing is more insidious than enforcing silence and repressing jokes—the job of a comedian is to expose society’s demons, and confront them head-on, no prisoners allowed.

In ten impassioned polemics, she frames comedy as a tool of empowerment, a way to reclaim hateful rhetoric and battle the democracy-crushing plight of censorship.

Uninhibited and bold, Gold is as skilled at making readers laugh as she is at exposing uncomfortable truths about our culture and society. In this era of partisan politics and gaping inequalities, Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comics We’re All in Trouble is the refreshingly candid, wickedly funny and deliciously blunt manifesto we need.