#courtjesters — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #courtjesters, aggregated by home.social.
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Queen Coke Francis | "I Ranked Every Sellout At The #RiyadhComedyFestival"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bome1xiMy4
#SaudiArabia #humanRights #comedy #arts #performingArts #humorists #comedians #standUp #courtJesters #filthyLucre -
"If there’s anything ironic about being so scared of telling the wrong joke that you run straight into the arms of the House of Saud, it seems lost on the festival performers...
"Should #comedians be held to a higher standard than footballers? It would help if they weren’t so fond of touting their own importance, their skewering of the ruling class, their ‘speaking truth to power’."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/october/laughing-their-heads-off
#RiyadhComedyFestival #SaudiArabia #humanRights #courtJesters #comedy #filthyLucre #arts -
"The Riyadh Court Jester Parade won’t mean much to the careers of most of these comics. No one’s going to lose a Hollywood deal for [a] movie or a show, and with Saudi money in Hollywood, some might come home to new deals. All they lost is any credibility on lecturing anyone else on right and wrong ever again."
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/comedy-saudi-arabia-human-rights/
#RiyadhComedyFestival #humanRights #SaudiArabia #courtJesters #venality #sellouts #arts #comedy #humorists