#riyadhcomedyfestival — Public Fediverse posts
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Weird Al Yankovic Says He Turned Down Seven-Figure Riyadh Comedy Fest Gig: “It Makes Me Feel Icky”
#News #RiyadhComedyFestival #WeirdAlYankovichttps://deadline.com/2026/07/weird-al-yankovic-turned-down-riyadh-comedy-fest-1237003068/
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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Turned Down Million-Dollar Offer to Perform in Saudi Arabia: ‘I Don’t Need to Take Any Money if It Makes Me Feel Icky’
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Zarna Garg Defends Performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival as “Ordained by Some Higher Power”
#GeneralNews #AndrewSchulz #AzizAnsari #BillBurr #DaveChappelle #International #JimJefferies #JoKoy #KevinHart #LouisCK #MarkNormand #PeteDavidson #RiyadhComedyFestival #SebastianManiscalco #TomSegura #WhitneyCummings #ZarnaGarg -
John Oliver Roasts Netflix-WBD Deal In ‘Last Week Tonight’ Season 13 Premiere: “Loved The Ending Of ‘Stranger Things,’ By The Way — Very Brown”
#News #HBO #JohnOliver #LastWeekTonight #LastWeekTonightwithJohnOliver #NetflixWB #Paramount #RiyadhComedyFestival #Warnerbrosdiscoveryhttps://deadline.com/2026/02/john-oliver-season-13-premiere-netflix-wb-last-week-tonight-1236725733/
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journal entry featuring experience highlights and remarkable memories and cultural enthusiasms:
Boulevard City, Riyadh, the Western consensus & the hypocritical oaf
https://www.outsidelight.online/journal/journal-boulevard-city-riyadh-the-western-consensus-the-hypocritical-oaf/
#riyadh #RiyadhComedyFestival #saudiarabia #travel #theatre #AI -
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 -
Whitney Cummings on Riyadh Comedy Festival Controversy: “It’s Just Racism”
#GeneralNews #News #Comedy #International #RiyadhComedyFestival #SaudiArabia #WhitneyCummings -
Looks like some #riyadhcomedyfestival performers are going with "anybody complaining is lumping in the people there with the government".
Bullshit. They were invited and paid by the government under strict topic rules. It would be like being invited by Trump or Biden, paid by the government and told that to get the money, you couldn't criticize them. It doesn't matter who else is in the room. You can't say your comedy is about truth telling etc after taking that gig, esp for a dictator.
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Whitney Cummings Defends Performing At Riyadh Comedy Festival, Says Backlash “Is Just Racism”
#News #RiyadhComedyFestival #WhitneyCummingshttps://deadline.com/2025/10/whitney-cummings-riyadh-comedy-festival-defends-performing-1236584551/
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Whitney Cummings Says Riyadh Comedy Festival Backlash ‘Is Just Racism,’ Claims Stand-Up Comics Who’ve Worked With Live Nation Have ‘Taken Saudi Money’
#Variety #News #RiyadhComedyFestival #WhitneyCummings -
Does the Controversy Over the Riyadh Comedy Festival Actually Matter?
#GeneralNews #News #BillBurr #DaveChappelle #LouisCK #RiyadhComedyFestival #SaudiArabia -
https://pen.org/saudi-sponsors-comedy-speak-writers-at-risk/
As the Saudi Government Sponsors Comedy, Let’s Speak Up for Saudi Writers at Risk
#SaudiArabia #RiyadhComedyFestival #MBS #JamalKhashoggi #Bonesaws #oppression #monarchy #comedy #comedians
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https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/10/saudi-arabia-gets-the-last-laugh/684494/
Saudi Arabia Gets the Last Laugh
The Riyadh Comedy Festival is just one part of a much bigger plan.
By Hanna Rosin
#MBS #SaudiArabia #RiyadhComedyFestival #JamalKhashoggi #BoneSaws #Comedy #Comedians
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Stand-Up Comedian Jessica Kirson Donates Riyadh Comedy Festival Fee to Human Rights Campaign
#GeneralNews #AzizAnsari #BillBurr #HumanRightsCampaign #International #JessicaKirson #RiyadhComedyFestival #SaudiArabia -
Aziz Ansari says he plans to donate "part of the fee" for performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival to Human Rights Watch, but the organization doesn't want it. Arvind Ganesan, the HRW's head of economic justice and rights division, told @Variety that accepting money from Riyadh performers, "could create the perception that somehow we compromised our independence after the fact." Here's more.
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Apropos of nothing, here is the list of comedians who participated in the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
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, 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, Cipha Sounds, Aries Spears, Chris Tucker, and Jack Whitehall
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Human Rights Watch “Cannot Accept” Donations From Riyadh Comedy Fest Performers, Says “Not Too Late” To Call For Release Of Saudi Activists
#Festivals #News #AzizAnsari #HumanRightsWatch #RiyadhComedyFestival #SaudiArabiahttps://deadline.com/2025/10/human-rights-watch-cannot-accept-donations-riyadh-comedy-1236575342/
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I saw Omid Djalili had written a piece in the Guardian defending his appearance at the festival as some kind of cultural olive branch or something but money will make you say all sorts of things, won't it?
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#ArabiaSaudita: i comici tacciono sui diritti umani e gli attivisti detenuti.
"I comici al #RiyadhComedyFestival di #Riyadh si uniscono all'insabbiamento degli abusi da parte del governo."
💵💵💵#HumanRights #SaudiArabia #9ottobre
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/08/saudi-arabia-comedians-silent-on-detained-activists
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Aziz Ansari Defends Riyadh Comedy Festival Gig, Plans To Donate Portion Of Fee: “I Share The Concerns”
#News #AzizAnsari #RiyadhComedyFestivalhttps://deadline.com/2025/10/aziz-ansari-defends-riyadh-comedy-festival-gig-donate-fee-1236573973/
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Jimmy Kimmel Grills Aziz Ansari on Riyadh Comedy Performance in Tense Interview: It’s a ‘Brutal Regime’ and ‘These Are Not Good People’
#Variety #News #AzizAnsari #JimmyKimmel #RiyadhComedyFestivalhttps://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-grills-aziz-ansari-riyadh-comedy-festival-1236543742/
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Bill Burr Slams Riyadh Comedy Festival Backlash as ‘Bulls—‘ and Roasts Critics: ‘I Don’t Give a F— What These Phony F—ing People Are Saying’
#Variety #News #BillBurr #RiyadhComedyFestivalhttps://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bill-burr-slams-critics-riyadh-comedy-festival-1236543113/
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"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 -
Zach Woods on the spineless comedians selling out for the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
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Bro I am so calling it!!
After the #RiyadhComedyFestival Bill Burr is gonna go perform at the Pyongyang Comedy Festival XD
