With Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Comedy Festival kicking off this weekend, Atsuko Okatsuka has revealed some of the event's strict terms.

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago

Oh the wee cwown pwince doesn't want to get his feelings hurt?

Good on her for standing up and passing on being some cunt's jester.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago
    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Wow, how have I not seen or heard anything about this until yesterday? The event started 9/26 and lasts through 10/9.

    I really hope every single one of them enjoys the backlash their gonna get back home. Ah what do I know, they won't care. I'm sure their purse strings are about to bust apart once they get paid.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    The participant list is greater than what I've seen listed here and other posts. Wikipedia lists them but here they are as of 9/28.

    Participants:

    Aziz Ansari

    Hannibal Buress

    Bill Burr

    Jimmy Carr

    Dave Chappelle

    Louis C.K.

    Whitney Cummings

    Pete Davidson

    Christ Distefano

    Omid Djalili

    Zarna Garg

    Kevin Hart (edit/spelling)

    Gabriel Iglesias

    Jim Jefferies

    Jimeoin

    Maz Jobrani

    Jessica Kirson

    Jo Koy

    Bobby Lee

    Sebastian Maniscalco

    Sam Morril

    Mark Normand

    Nimesh Patel

    Russell Peters

    Jeff Ross

    Andrew Santino

    Andrew Schulz

    Tom Segura

    Jack Whitehall

    Ali Siddiq

    Ben Hart

    Aries Spears

    Mo Amer

    Wayne Brady

    The short list of who have declined shows as: Shane Gillis, Stavros Halkias, and Atsuko Okatsuka. Tim Dillon was intending to participate but was removed due to previously made jokes.

    Marc Maron, Shane Gillis, Gianmarco Soresi, and Zack Woods have criticized the event and the performers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do we think any of these people are going to just ignore the rules anyway?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It would be neat if they did, but what are the chances? They still would have to get back home.

    Remember, this is being organized by MBS. He's the one responsible for making Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist who was critical of MBS disappear by dismemberment in 2018.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good for her, I will check her, and the others mentioned, out. If anyone else is interested in a list of abstained, the article lists:

    Atsuko Okatsuka

    Leslie Liao

    Mike Birbiglia

    Shane Gillis

    The article also goes on to mention some of those who are billed for the event:

    ... the Riyadh Comedy Festival has grown to include Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Hannibal Buress, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Zarna Garg, Gabriel Iglesias, Jim Jefferies, Jo Koy, Bobby Lee, Jeff Ross, Andrew Santino, Tom Segura, Chris Tucker and more.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wonder how many participants will fall back to the “My dog has no nose” joke or similar.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I knew I liked her.

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