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Since we're in the "consequence" culture these days, it will be really easy to impose a consequence by choosing to not pay to see any of those particular comedians who look the other way. And maybe they will become irrelevant.

Hey, good article! Keep it up, NPR

And Chapelle is supposed to be this guy who truly understands injustice.

Considering he's in every tv commercial break, Kevin Hart never says no to a paycheck.

I'm glad Aziz is going. He already got canceled over fucking nothing already, what's left for him to lose?

Shane Gillis did, even after KSA apparently escalated their offer. Big respect to him.

Especially when you are in the top 2%.

Did the Saudis invite any Jewish comedians?

He did that because he was having a breakdown.

BIll Burr though.. Expected better from him......

How does this work? You perform with a noose around your neck and the trap door falls out from underneath you if you cross an offensive-to-Allah line? And what song does the band play while you die?

Have they no moral compass? Jez!!!!

Lol@Kevin Hart, of course he's there

Good for Marc.

Look up the Jim Jeffries quote...

Ole Billy Bonesaw, gfy. God damnit. So much.

Aw, Bill, say it ain't so. You broke my heart.

Even the minorities are corrupted greedy bastards.

"Saudi comedy" is practically an oxymoron.

Were people really shocked about Burr? I've never seen a single one of his performances (because he reads as racist) and even I heard him say he'd sell out for a check if it were big enough.

Marc who? LOL

Surprised Russell Brand isnt going but maybe he's shat the bed one too many times.

Of course Jimmy Carr. Son of a merchant banker, ex-stockbroker. Twat.

It's just so sad that we lost George Carlin and Bill Hicks, because they would both be tearing into the traitorous fascists with much more bite and intelligent humor than any comedians alive today do.

It simple, some people’s morals have a price, and they should be comfortable standing on that…

What's so funny about this is that the three comedians NPR cites (Chappelle, Ansari, and Hart) are all either Black or Indian and have zero problems selling out other people of color. None of them are funny, but each of them are losers. The KKK would be proud of each one of them.

They can't resist the smell of Khashogi's burning flesh and the charred bones of 9/11 victims courtesy of murderer MbS. That MbS blood money that they received will not keep them sane. It will destroy them.

As I said before, when money talks, principles shut up.

Is there a list of all comedians who are participating? I'd like to know who to avoid.

using your megaphone to say bad things are bad is good even if you aren’t perfect Stop obsessing about hypocrisy. The effect matters much, much more than the character of the actor, and hypocrisy won’t change their actions. This isn’t a Disney movie.

There need to be consequences, for a long time.

They will do anything for a check.

Any men who are actually funny, or just these also-rans? I almost feel sorry for the Saudis.

Chapelle, Ansari and Hart have always seemed sexist and racist to me, so this is not surprising.

From sports washing to comedy washing.

On the plus side maybe each comedian could appeal for the return of the dismembered body parts of #JamalKhashoggi. Like one could come home the right leg, one the left, etc

They’ve been investing hard into video games for a few years too. Apparently the deal to take Electronic Arts private is Kushner along with SA money.

The Saudis will buy TKO in very short order.

WWE was also happy to mine American patriotism after 9/11 and the start of the 2003 Iraq War. Any characters against the war were cast as heels.

They’re buying EA.

Wasn’t Burr supposed to be “the left’s Joe Rogan”?

I want to root for him so damn bad but he absolutely refuses to get over his own boomer ass bullshit (whatever gen he is idk). He’s come a LONG way, but at this point he’s never going to be a pure good guy. Can’t trust em

Sportswashing has paid huge dividends so, while disappointing, this certainly isn’t surprising.

transphobe, sexual abuser and no-talent-clown. Shocking.

Not a goddamned funny thing about any of them.

They told us what matters most to them. Fuck ‘em.

Jamal Khashoggi walks into a bar…

Not likely because that was a rare and brief moment when indigenous African lack of human rights were addressed. But every other ethnic group and violations or outrage over their human rights always takes priority over the issues of people who are of African descent.

The only shocker on that list for me is #BillBurr He has lost my respect. What a mess. @marcmaron.bsky.social is spot on.

Dave “cheap shots at trans people are humor” Chappelle doesn’t surprise me at all. Or Louis CK.

Bill Barr and Sebastian Maniscalco are bigger names (and disappointments) than Aziz Ansari.

And Oprah and Di Caprio went to Bezos' wedding. Blergh.

We deserve better comedians. Those sell-outs can stay out.

Chappelle, Ansari, and Hart…. 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆! 😳 (𝐧𝐨𝐭) #FTGs

Apparently @kevinhartreal.bsky.social and likes people that chop up journalists I guess. I don't know. What has been their justification for doing shows for misogynistic psychopaths that chop people up?

Chappelle and Hart chase the check and any chance at relevance. They don't care who pays as long as they pay.

Yeah, I'm not surprised to see Louis CK on this list, but I thought Burr was better than this.

Aziz: Randy!!!!!!!

They all had to agree to not make fun of the Saudis, and their oligarchs. Pucker up and kiss the ring you gutless monsters.

a comedy festival in a country where there's no freedom of expression..... 🤨

The one context Kevin Hart and Big can be in the same sentence