‘The Last Laugh’ is a Smart Contemplation of Taboos and Comedy

“My experience as a victim led me to believe I could say almost anything on the subject, no matter how outrageous,” wrote Milo Yiannopoulous in his apology statement after losing a book deal as a result of a joke he made about pedophilia last year. But it is not a line that would be out of place in Ferne Pearlstein’s long-gestating project The Last Laugh