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If you do know any of them somehow you might want to refuse any of their gift from now on if you believe it's from dirty money.
I almost respect that more than the comedians that play it off as just another act.
Likewise we're not paid enough to be their audience. Grifters, kindly fuck off the stage.
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.
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?
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Happy Boycott!
EDIT: Corrected and expanded now, based on the feedback and what seem to be Saudi websites in English.
Shane Gillis and Atsuko Okatsuka turned the invitation down.
Atsuko has been outspoken about it and Shane said on his podcast he wouldn't work for the people who did 9/11.
Nice for these people to be so open about their shittiness, it removes the benefit of the doubt and makes it easier to weed them out
"Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X." - Paul Mooney.
I was looking for the onion link...
Yet as a country they buy their oil and supply them weapons, but this is a bridge too far I suppose.
Argh I'm so upset by this betrayal I'm going to type something on the internets.
That'll solve it.
US imports of Saudi oil have not been significant for awhile now, North American oil production has increased massively over the past several decades. The US has actually been energy independent and a net exporter for around 5 years or so I think.
I don't think many Americans are happy about the US relationship with Saudi Arabia but it doesn't get shoved in their faces often so when comedians act like this it becomes an avenue for that anger to be expressed. Many Americans have parasocial relationships with comedians, and/or have this idea that they are "fearless truth-tellers", so it hits a lot different compared to abstract foreign policy and people get a lot more easily riled up about it.
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.
"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.
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.
The title quote is from Tim Dillon, article has a similar quote from Pete Davidson