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"...He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’” "

Apparently $375,000 is enough for Pete Davidson to piss on his fathers memory

The lineup features Dave Chappelle, Louis CK, Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari and Jo Koy, among many others who are all taking their fees directly from the Saudi government.

Burr being on that list surprises me, but it said he’s also been to UAE. Davidson is pissing on his father’s grave.

They have also taken flak from their peers. “The same guy that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a fucking suitcase,” said Marc Maron in a standup clip posted on his Facebook.

Exactly.

Greedy fucks, all of them.

I used to love standup comedy. These days I feel as though so much of the mainstream comedy scene is made up of immature losers who peaked in highschool. Joe Rogan, Bert Kreisher, Bobby Lee, Chris Distefano... I cannot stand these guys. The list goes on.

I thought Bill Burr was different. I'm really disappointed.

Don’t make celebrity performers your idols, folks. They’re mostly psychologically damaged, amoral, backstabbing, money grubbing narcissists.

I am really disappointed to see Bill Burr here. I'm not surprised to see Mark Norman and others who made a name for themselves by making jokes at others expense. They remind me of little kids in school picking on the fat kid or the new kid from another country.

I hate to bring this up, especially since SA kills people so openly, but the US's track record of committing terrorist acts, or supporting terrorism (South America) is terrible. We're currently supplying weapons to Israel that they use to kill children. That's going on right now, they've killed like 60,000 Palestinians, 20,000 children. If you weren't American would you be okay with comedians playing in a country with America's history?

Here's a full list:

• 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
• Jack Whitehall

Happy Boycott!

EDIT: Corrected and expanded now, based on the feedback and what seem to be Saudi websites in English.

Jim Jefferies disappeared from the Riyadh festival lineup after he said on Theo Von’s podcast: ‘One reporter was killed by the [Saudi] government – unfortunate, but not a fucking hill that I’m gonna die on.’

What a fucking loser. He threw his soul away AND lost the payday. Lose-lose fucking loser.

‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

That is at least an honest approach instead of "We'll change things over there with our comedy".

Just stfu next time it's about politics (hint: they won't).

The only guy that is surprising for me is Bill Burr. Not exactly financially hanging on by a thread but still selling out like that.

Super disappointed in Burr.

Unsubscribed.

We really got the worst era of comedy. Bunch of court jesters dancing for a king while the city burns

"Make shit excuses" isn't really a definition of "defend."

To defend something, it should be defensible in the first place. Otherwise you're just failing while talking about how it was worth it, but with extra steps.

Literal blood money bruh

Marc Maron is the person who people think the lot of these guys like Burr are. His comedy/commentary is earnest. He has conviction. People like Burr are performative commentary. They go back to the dressing room to wash off the clown makeup so they can go back to being their private self. They don't give a shit about the things the say into the mic.

Inb4 they whine in their next comedy specials that they're 'being cancel cultured again by Gen Z' and this time its 'just for working'.

Cue laughs from conservatives.

Distefano, chatting with Halkias, joked that an upside to the kingdom’s repression of women is that his fiancee can’t come with him. Mark Normand, on the other hand, joked he would bring his wife to show her how good she has it in America: “I want to be like, ‘You see? You think I’m an asshole? Well, they’ll cut your clit off, bitch.’”

Sounds like the right terrible people for that place. With any luck they would stay there.

Pete and Dave have been pieces of shit for a long time. Dave has been all downhill since those first few sets when he returned. Guy peaked with Chappel Show.

Likewise we're not paid enough to be their audience. Grifters, kindly fuck off the stage.

The title quote is from Tim Dillon, article has a similar quote from Pete Davidson

Let's make it cost them more to get their fans back.