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[–] 102 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Jim Jefferies, Jimmy Carr, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson... I was surprised to see these names on the lineup, what a bunch of sellouts.

This is from their contracts (found on https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-30/riyadh-comedy-festival-begins-with-pete-davidson-bill-burr/105833686):

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yup, that guy just looooves the money. At least he openly admits it in his performances.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He was named in the tax evasion offshore account. The cunt is a traitor to his own country.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I couldn't give less of a fuck if anyone's a traitor to their own country in that way. The tax evasion is bad because of ethics, not because he "betrayed his country". It didn't have any effect on his lifestyle but he chose to do it anyway, it's all about him being a greedy fuck and not about Nationalism.

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

    but how the fuck do you enrich yourself and not give back to your country? who else is paying for the police, roads, schools, hospitals, and then you also get to "vote" on how it's spent? I'm a low-wage broke fuck but I still pay taxes and that's how the government makes me contribute to everything we all benefit from. Meanwhile, this super wealthy multi-millionare twat does not, and tax evades instead? I'm someone who contributes to, and is hurt when I see my country struggles because we're all in this together.

    You understand me right? that's why I used the word traitor. he should be jailed and not welcomed in the UK

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Pete Davison is just mind blowing. He can’t even make jokes about how SA murdered his Jewish dad, while he sucks the dick of the men who murdered his dad

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    "Peter Michael Davidson was born on November 16, 1993 in the Staten Island borough of New York City to parents Amy (née Waters) and Scott Matthew Davidson. Scott was a New York City firefighter for Ladder 118 who died in service during the September 11th attacks, along with the rest of his unit."

    from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Davidson

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  • [–] 182 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Makes it so easy to find the people who don't give a fuck about women when they suck the Saudi teats so openly

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Counterpoint: If America gave a fuck about women it

    1. Wouldn't have bought oil from a repressive regime that suppressed woman's rights for decades and continues to do so.

    2. Elected a pedophile rapist who engaged in the trafficking of girls.

    3. Mourned and idolized a man who spread a religiously driven message that women should submit to men.

    Unless you're saying supporting either nation implies a lack of support for women. Which would be an undoubtedly reasonable position.

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  • I am intimately familiar with the ongoing hatred for women among Americans. Supreme Court rulings, legislative action, and modern campaigns for a return to lives of drudgery and involuntary childbearing are not even trying to sugarcoat the fact that we are considered lesser beings, despite being necessary for population growth.

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

    Perhaps we can have a slightly more granular system than giving a fuck, yes/no, 1 or 0, black and white. May I suggest perhaps we count how many fucks a country has to give for women? On that scale, we would properly see that the US gives far, far more fucks about women than Saudi Arabia. I’ve been there. Do not casually equate the two.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yes we can have a granular system but then do we acknowledge:

    1. Saudi Arabia has made more progress in the right direction (though dictator driven) while the US has elected a rapist, pedophile trafficker of girls who is keen on undoing progress on woman's rights. One who was elected by millions of voters which suggests that many agree with his worldview.

    2. That neither country respects women, even if one has developed more protections overall.

    3. Whether your god is Capitalism or a religious deity, women are seen as having less value (monerarily or spiritually).

    Please don't oversimplify my efforts to bring nuance to this discussion. Making a simple 'Saudi Arabia is worse than the US' statement without appropriate context opens the door to two inhumane outcomes that I cannot tolerate.

    1. The dehumanization of people in Saudi Arabia for having perceivably less progressive values. We can disagree with people and their value system without forgetting their humanity. Unfortunately such arguments were used during the colonial era by Western powers to justify inumerable immoral acts.

    2. The dismissal of challenges faced by women in the US because women in other nations 'have it worse'.

    So while I firmly believe both countries are in the category of 'Needs Improvement' I am wary of reductive arguments being used to materially worsen conditions for women both here and there.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    That's not what free speech is. The government has never attacked Chapelle for his speech.

    His bigoted shit just isn't funny to GenZ and they don't mind telling him.

    It's our right to Freedom of Association he has an issue with.

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  • [–] 133 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Chappelle has always been tone-deaf about many things, he's just more obvious about it since he's older. Glad more and more people are noticing his hypocrisy

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

    He's also an active stain on his hometown, among other vile behavior. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In what way? There's this, and the punching down / anti-trans rhetoric thing, but it feels like you're talking about something else entirely.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Didn't he buy up and invest in the entire town and then extort them into doing his bidding or something?

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

    At a Yellow Springs (Ohio) village‑council meeting in December 2021 he warned the council that he would pull his multi‑million‑dollar investment—plans for a restaurant and a comedy club—if they approved a zoning change that would allow new duplexes, townhouses and a parcel set aside for affordable housing. He said

    “I’ve invested millions of dollars in this town. If you push this thing through, what I’m investing in is no longer applicable… I am not bluffing. I will take it all off the table.

    “I cannot believe you would make me audition for you. You look like clowns… I will take it all off the table.”

    His main complaint was that the affordable‑housing would sit right next to the site he intended to develop for his restaurant and comedy club which would affect their commercial viability.

    The village council ultimately scrapped the affordable housing plan.

    https://slate.com/business/2022/02/dave-chappelle-affordable-housing-ohio-yellow-springs.html

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I used to love chapel. Now not so much. He drank the Joe Rogan kool-aid

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    He also sent strong antivax messages to black Americans. I liked his comedy but he got addicted to money and is a disappointing human.

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

    is a disappointing human.

    He was always a disappointing human.

    He just used to be a funny disappointing human.

    Now he's a sad, disappointing human.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Things can be both funny and disappointing. He found disappointing things to say and made them funny with observation; it was his schtick, his only schtick. He was 'edgy' before edgy was hot. Low-effort humor, still funny to an extent, but a lot of people used it as a bar for their own disappointing observations, it bred acceptance of hate and racism because they thought funny == good.

    Some people cannot separate their comedy/actions from what they should and should not do in real life. It enabled the "settle down it's just a joke BS". They idolized him; he became wealthy and a conservative mouthpiece.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Excessive income causes brain damage

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago

    I invite you to stay there, Mr. Chappelle.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Aw man Bill Burr went too? Goddammit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    hes an opportunists like many comedians apparently. he was doing something very popular at the moment, aka the Luigi situation, and then immediately crawled back to whatever cave he came out of, not a peep after he made that statement.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Daily reminder anyone who makes appeal to collective moralism while denigrating a specific individual is almost invariably an intolerable cunt.

    Also Bill Burr is a Legend

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

    I was shocked as well. But I have to admit, to a certain extent Bill Burr has a point. Not everyone in that country is part of the Royal family and part of the oppression. And creating a doorway by introducing Western influences most especially Western comedy could conceivably bridge a gap there. However anybody criticizing the United States for attacks on freedom of speech while praising a place like Saudi Arabia needs to go fuck a horse.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The crown are making big adult playgrounds for rich people so they can divest themselves of the financial road-to-nowhere that is oil. There's no morality in this, their people will still be deeply oppressed and no amount of witticisms will change that.

    I don't even really judge Burr too harshly here, but the excuse is paper thin. I'd rather he just not give one and make a joke about how many millions he can't make cussing out hecklers in Tucson.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    yea hence the sportswashing, entertainment washing, and recently buying UP EA for 55bn. last i ehard thier countries oil reserves are going to dry up by the 2050s, if not sooner, yea they are in deep trouble if they doing it this early on.

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

    Billy Burka argument is total bullshit. They've accepted blood money for whitewashing and the whole world begged them to reject it and speak up instead. Close the gap of my ass bro. The only gap that needs closing is his holed brain to understand that this dictorship is fully enabled by his American government against the will of Saudi citizens. Go perform for Putin and Kim Un next.

    I don't want to repeat myself. Read my comment to understand because you sound clueless how this shit works:

    https://lemmy.world/comment/19750023

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    So I use to live in Riyadh and worked for a defense company. I left during covid and seen a lot of hate filled shit there. The people in general, were very nice but I'm an American and male.

    My wife is not an American or Saudian. She would be harrassed and even hit by the locals. They looked down on her unless I was around.

    At work, I would routine run into non-Americans/Saudians. Holy shit did they treat them bad. From forcing them to do degrading stuff or just belittle them in public.

    Those were just the "normal" people. The royal family members were on a completely different level. Everyone used encrpyted chat services and if you posted about anything illegal, expect the Matowa (secret police) to visit your ass.

    Fuck all those going there and speaking all rosey for blood money.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Promotion_of_Virtue_and_the_Prevention_of_Vice_(Saudi_Arabia)

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    He made fun of trans people and trans people pushed back.

    If you support trans people in Saudi Arabia the government throws you in jail.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    "Everybody out there that's watching, everybody that's watching this world? This world is bullshit. You shouldn’t model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying and everything." - Fiona Apple.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Comics had give through a lot of cancellations and were starting to pull together. So, when Chappelle started being anti-trans, the comedy community was already primed to fight back.

    Also, Chappelle seems like a generous comedian in bringing people up. So, he probably has deep roots in the comedy community.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What happened to this guy? Like seriously. He went away and then came with this fucking terminal brainrot and he just can't stop saying stupid shit

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dude is a rich fuck who still bitches that other even richer fucks “stole” his money. And my poor ass is supposed to relate. He has been rich for most of his life but likes to pretend he’sa regular guy. He lives on another planet surrounded by bubbles of assistants and staff that kiss his ass

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You can't make observational comedy about being a young and hungry comedian/writer when you've spent the last decade being wealthy and out-of-touch.

    If he was still clever, he probably could've threaded the transphobia needle and either figured a way to make it right or made it so funny that enough people would enjoy it regardless. But now he's cranky and spoiled by success so he's just going to get angry, which is even less funny.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    he had a chance to switch material towards kind of humor George Carlin started doing later in his career - discussing serious subject matter in somewhat jovial manner with continuous punching up. Instead he chose the worst kind of punching down and when you're a rich guy mocking the poor and struggling - yeah, that's just bad.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I’ll bet ya a whole dollar that he doesn’t know who Jamal Khashoggi was.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A whole dollar? That'll buy groceries for a week!

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Dear Dave Chepple, Billy Burka, and the rest of hypocrite moralless indignified sellouts:

    You have looted blood money from the taxes of oppressed unrepresented beheaded people in a dictatorship. The executioner asked you to dance to distract the world and cover up the blood of slaughtered protestors and humanright activists for him while he beheads them. And you gladly obliged.

    So just answer my questions with your freedom of speech Dave.

    You know you were not paid by the "6000" attendees. The tickets cost from $13 to $80 for the whole week with each day featuring more than 1 comic.

    So how did you alone get paid $1.6millions Dave? What's the name of this organizing company? Where did they get this money from which they gave to dance Dave? Why is this Muslim Arabic country overpaying international celebeities to perform there? Not humanright washing... no.. no.

    What happened to the Saudi citizens who complained about their wealth in billions of dollars going to overpaid LIV athletes, boxing athletes, soccer, esports kids, Hiphop concerts, and now you Dave?

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

    he hated that he was called out for being a transphobic person, thats the real reason. now that hes in a country that hates lgbtq+ he feels welcomed.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Based on some of his accounts of his experiences I get why he might have a chip on his shoulder. Callinh the police on a black man for no reason just to harass them is practically attempted murder in the US and is an unacceptable step up from online comments.

    That being said, saying a country like Saudi Arabia where the state will throw you in jail for speech with no due process is the same is a complete lack of awareness.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Funny how all other countries are lacking the range of having different opinions about things among the different groups of people. Saudi Arabia hates lgbtq+? With such a view, does that mean the USA love guns more than school children?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    does that mean the USA love guns more than school children?

    Yes. I say this as an American. If America actually cared about children we would have been able to do something after Sandy Hook. America contains people that aren't stupid about guns just as I'm sure SA contains people that don't like slavery. But the good ones aren't in charge.

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    Bill Burr is the only one that really got to me. I loved that guy. But I just can't see him the same way anymore

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Same for me. He seemed so... Honest. He walked that line between left and right, not siding. It made me think, "this is a genuine guy". Fuck me, I guess. Truly affected me more than most things lately. I realise that makes me sound cold, given recent events, but it did. Again, fuck me, I guess.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Who the F does a "Comedy Festival" in Saudi Arabia, of all places? What's next? North Korea? The USA?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    “Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle told an audience of 6,000, according to The New York Times. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.” He then added, “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

    I love your comedy Dave, but the sell-out you’ve become invalidates your position as a truth-teller right when America needs you the most. You built your career on raw talent and hard work without bowing to your masters at Comedy Central, and you don’t need to do this either. If you ever manage to un-sew your lips from the royal prince’s gold-shitting anus, please come back to us.

    Obligatory take from another of my favorite comedians.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Lol that'd be stupid. Trump can't do anything while he's off U.S soil

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