“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.”

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      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.

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        Nimesh Patel is decently funny. I was disappointed when I heard that he accepted to go, glad he cancelled.

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        Tim Dillon took the offer but pulled some Tim Dillon shit on his podcast and was asked not to participate. He got a few bucks anyhow and per his own words, was forced into the bosoms of Iran now.

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        Tim Dillon did accept it, they canceled his spot when he accidentally/mistakenly advertised he would be in Abu Dhabi and they got offended.

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          Jesus Christ, he just pulled the most heinous shit out of his ass. His quotes were legitimately monstrous, truly inexcusable. To sum it up, he can get over EVERYTHING, as long as he’s being paid enough. No morals, no real beliefs. Is he even a person? Are people like that even really people? I would argue that they’re not. There is no point to Tim Dillon.

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      There’s always the random ones that you find on Youtube. The Taylor Tomlinsons and Gianmarco Soresis.

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          Not that a Netflix special is that special, but TT has 3 Netflix specials, and I think all of them were recorded before @fter Midnight.

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          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