Last week, Anderson Cooper expressed disapproval over a gay slur included in a trailer (watch above) for a new Vince Vaughn movie. Universal has since agreed to remove the joke from the movie under pressure from GLAAD, but Vaughn thinks it should stay, saying: 
 
 “Let me add my voice of support to the people outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences, whatever those differences may be. Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing dividing lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly that; it divides us. Most importantly, where does it stop.” 
 
 So, do you buy Vaughn’s argument? Do you think removing a gay slur from a movie “divides” us? Personally, I think his particular argument is weak, but I do agree that it’s dangerous to go around policing dialogue in movies. Fictional characters, like real people, are all kinds of things, including racist, bigoted, ignorant, indifferent, and just plain tactless, and the words they say need to reflect those characteristics. I do think, given our current social climate, it was pretty stupid to include that “joke” in the previews, though. Your thoughts? [via Huffington Post] ||||| EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures pulled the “gay” joke out of the trailer for the Ron Howard directed comedy The Dilemma. While the studio hasn’t declared whether it will pull the line out of the movie under pressure from GLAAD, the film’s star, Vince Vaughn, has weighed in with a comment that indicates he’d like the joke to stay. Said Vaughn: “Let me add my voice of support to the people outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences, whatever those differences may be. Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing dividing lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly that; it divides us. Most importantly, where does it stop.” 
 
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 Your information is safe and secure. ||||| Earlier this week, in a televised discussion about the cultural signals that encourage cruelty and bullying among teens, CNN's Anderson Cooper took the upcoming Vince Vaughn comedy 'The Dilemma' to task for its trailer's offensive use of the word 'gay' in a prominent scene.After criticism of the studio escalated, Universal told GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) this week that it would yank the 'Dilemma' trailer and replace it in theaters with a new one.The new trailer has gone public, says the Hollywood Reporter That doesn't change the fact that viewers of the entire film, directed by Ron Howard and set to open in January, will still see the controversial scene in which Vaughn's character insults a car by repeatedly calling it 'gay.' But the studio's swift action shows Hollywood is trying not to exacerbate a climate in which young targets of anti-gay bullies have recently killed themselves in shocking suicides.Have a look at the new trailer here.
– A week after the uproar erupted over the trailer for his upcoming movie, Vince Vaughn issued a statement—not an apology—for The Dilemma’s gay joke, Deadline reports. Though he is “outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences,” Vaughn says, he believes “comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing dividing lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly that; it divides us. Most importantly, where does it stop.” Click here to watch the original trailer or here to see the new trailer with the joke removed.