You Can Do It! Speak Your Mind, America

Rob Schneider grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area with parents of mixed-race backgrounds, and that experience gave him a particular vantage point on what America is and what it makes possible. It also made him poorly suited to stay quiet when he believed the country was being steered badly wrong. In You Can Do It!, Schneider, comedian, actor, Emmy-nominated SNL writer, and star of twenty-seven films with Adam Sandler, turns from entertainment to advocacy with the same irreverence and refusal to self-censor that built his career. The book is part celebrity memoir, part political provocation, and part call to action. He shares never-before-told stories about Chris Farley, Norm Macdonald, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, and other SNL legends alongside frank commentary on the things he believes Americans are being pressured not to say: the failures of woke ideology, the overreach of Covid policy, the absurdities of identity politics, and the slow erosion of medical freedom. Schneider does not believe saying these things makes him dangerous. He believes the opposite, that the person who refuses to question the prevailing narrative is the one who poses the real threat to a free society. Funny, irreverent, and deliberately provocative, this book is his case for fearlessness in speech, in comedy, and in life.