“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” the comedian Dave Chappelle quipped on Saturday at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the first event of its kind in Saudi Arabia. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.”
Wait, the Saudi’s actually had a comedy fest? I thought it was a viral joke or something.
David Cross gave his opinion on the comedians doing the show. He did not pull punches
What do you think I think? I am disgusted, and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing. That people I admire, with unarguable talent, would condone this totalitarian fiefdom for…what, a fourth house? A boat? More sneakers?
Worth a read
Bill Burr hurts the most.
Yup. Fuck Bill Burr.
I didn’t catch anything about burr in the article?
I can’t read it but David Cross said he’s performing there.
Bill has a chance to redeem himself, but only at the risk of a beheading.
A LOT of really notable comedians are. It’s pretty gross and disappointing.
Everything about this festival disgusts me.
They irony of that statement while doing a comedy show where they literally have a list of things you’re not allowed to talk about and also hacked up a journalist for speaking.
Jesus fucking Christ. Fuck Dave Chappelle. Fuck Bill Burr. Fuck Jessica Kirson. Fuck Pete Davidson. Fuck them all. Putting money over their own souls. I guess that I’m not all that surprised. Most of them made their money shitting on minorities. And, I know this sounds stupid, but a few weeks/ months ago, I did kind of call it for Bill Burr. He just never seemed like a guy that really cared imo.
I think that’s the point that he’s trying to make. You’re not allowed to joke about things here either, and we had a president who was known as the Deporter in Chief, had the most drone strikes on Muslim countries, started the most wars of any US president, and had a War on Whistleblowers. And now we have Trump.
For the lazy, here is a full list of performers to ignore in the future: (Some real disappointments in here)
Mo Amer
Aziz Ansari
Wayne Brady
Hannibal Buress
Bill Burr
Jimmy Carr
Dave Chappelle
Louis C.K.
Whitney Cummings
Pete Davidson
Chris Distefano
Omid Djalili
Zarna Garg
Ben Hart
Kevin Hart
Gabriel Iglesias
Jim Jefferies
Jimeoin
Maz Jobrani
Jessica Kirson
Jo Koy
Bobby Lee
Sebastian Maniscalco
Sam Morril
Mark Normand
Russell Peters
Jeff Ross
Sugar Sammy
Andrew Santino
Andrew Schulz
Tom Segura
Ali Siddiq
Aries Spears
Chris Tucker
Jack Whitehall
That’s like everyone
There’s a few who were invited and turned them down. Mike Birbiglia was the most notable to me, but I’m also familiar with Shane Gillis, Michelle Wolf, and Stavros Halkias. Atsuko Okatsuka, Toni Nagy, Leslie Liao, Nimesh Patel, and Tim Dillon have also announced they turned down the offer, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen their shows.
No Brian Posehn. \m/
John mulaney didn’t go at least
He was too high. Or they didn’t invite him at all, idk.
There’s always the random ones that you find on Youtube. The Taylor Tomlinsons and Gianmarco Soresis.
Yes, the random Taylor Tomlinson who hosted After Midnight for two seasons.
Yeah, well, I didn’t say that they were nobodies. I just randomly found both of them on Youtube. I don’t watch tv lol
I can still watch Kyle Kinane, thankfully.
Also promote the person that was meant to go, but Saudi Arabia wouldn’t let him, though since the payment also had a good down payment, he got paid and didn’t go. Tim Dillon. Also, he’s a self described “cock-gobbling f-slur” so I’m not even sure how they accepted him in the first place.
Just because performing in Saudi Arabia under cuts the joke horrifically, doesn’t mean there’s no kernel of truth there. I feel like a lot of these articles gloss over that fact because it hurts
It reminds me of the old reagan Soviet joke.
A Soviet and an american are having a conversation. The American is bragging about free speech, and says:
"our country is so free, I could go to the white house and yell ‘go to hell Ronald Reagan!’
And nothing would happen to me.
The Russian replies,
“Our speech is pretty free too, I guess, I also could go to the Kremlin, shout ‘Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!’ And nothing would happen to me, either.”
