Tribeca Film Festival Condemns Rape Joke Made on Red Carpet

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The Tribeca Film Festival issued a public condemnation after a rape joke was made on the red carpet during the premiere of The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan). The festival's swift response underscores ongoing tensions around comedy's boundaries at high-profile events, where the visibility of such moments, and the immediate backlash they generate, has become a recurring flashpoint. By issuing a formal statement, Tribeca signaled its standards around acceptable discourse at its venues, even as the incident raises broader questions about who gets to define those boundaries and how.