Fuck I miss Carlin
Better he doesn’t have to see what the world has become. His internal disappointed idealist’s heart would be thoroughly broken. I know mine has been.
Can’t believe bill burr went. Turns out all of his billionaire critics were just meaningless
Can absolutely believe Chapelle went.
He’s become more Rick James than Rick James.
I would have been shocked if he hadn’t.
They drove a dumptruck of money to his door, he’s not made of stone.
But you have to wonder if these guys are just grabbing the silverware before political satire is banned by zee Republicans.
Everyone knows now he can be bought and swayed easily by money, since money talks.
Extremely disgusting. I already found most of these people uncool and unfunny but I thought Bill Burr was at least alright (still didn’t think he was funny, but he at least seemed to have sane political views - guess not). The only way any of them can make this a respectable choice is if they’re doing it Trojan Horse style, and they’re planning to tell a bunch of jokes shitting on Saudi Arabia and calling them out for their infinity of evil acts. Not getting my hopes up for that, though.
The Guardian remains respectable and has not pulled punches in this article at least.
It’s already happened. I don’t think there were any Trojan Horse-style jokes unfortunately
Oh derp, I saw “October 9th” and glossed over the rest. Yeah no surprise. Telling a joke like that in that environment might get you killed. Not that they see any problem with that I guess.
Who is the comedian looking like the Corinthian in the thumbnail?
Pete Davidson, whose popularity with people remains a mystery to me.
Oh. He got popular because Lorne Michael likes him. I think Lorne just enjoyed the fact his dad died during 9/11 so people had to like him or else they weren’t patriotic. I have no clue how he pulls the girls he pulls though.
Pete Davidson also nice show reference
Ghostbusters 2, right?
The sandman show
Will people criticizing them stop to play all EA games that are owned now by Saudi Arabia?
I haven’t bought an EA game since Mass Effect 3 so this a moot point for me.
Dragon Age Inquisition for me.
I have not bought one since fifa 08
It’s a bit weird to me how hyperfocused gamers are on Saudi Arabia. No, they do not own EA, it’s a joint venture between two other US investment firms;
Silver Lake Partners: A private equity firm focused on technology and media investments. Silver Lake is also part of the new Oracle-led joint venture set to take on management of TikTok’s U.S. operations.
Affinity Partners: Led by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, the firm is a participant in the buyout.
Why not focus on weirdly rich Trump’s son-in-law? Knowing it’s family, the thought of Trump family owning EA sounds worse than Saudi Arabia fund.
They’re all such nice people it’s hard to know who to boycott them over the most.
the thought of Trump family owning EA sounds worse than Saudi Arabia fund.
last time I checked Trump wasn’t cutting off hands.
Just burning down houses and dragging children out of beds.
Do you KNOW what your country does to death row prisoners??? Do you know you often have the highest incarceration rate in the world??? And that’s just the old shit that everyone already accepts, there is a LOT of REALLY BAD SHIT going down in your country’s name right now; you got no place to be throwing stones from.
Do you KNOW what your country does to death row prisoners??? ; you got no place to be throwing stones from.
yeah I do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Uruguay
Capital punishment in Uruguay was abolished from the legal system in 1907 by Law N° 3238, passed during the government of president Claudio Williman, and later removed from the constitutional system in 1918. The death penalty had been expressly established by Uruguayan Constitution of 1830.
fucking nothing
you were the one who referenced Trump.
So? People are mad at EA being sold, among others, to saudi arabia. Who cut off hands for theft.
EA has been dogshit for decades now anyway.
Not sure why you had to try to bring me and my country into it, but I don’t buy EA games, I don’t go to the US, I don’t go to Saudi Arabia.
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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.
The rest is even more cringy
“arguing it is for the greater good that “freedom-of-speech machines” such as himself bestow their “edgy” material on the kingdom and its subjects.”
It is one thing to sell your soul for money (or try anyways lol) but it is an entirely another level of loser quality to pretend like you are fighting for freedom while doing it.
chapelles reason was pretty obvious, hes a transphobe, that was mad when he cant say transphobic jokes, and SA allows him to be transphobic as much as he wants.
What I find most weird about him choosing to die on that hill is it wasn’t even a good transphobic joke.
Literally just hurr durr she has a dick.
My thought about the whole thing was that if someone went there and, in spite of the agreement they signed, teed off on the Saudis and whatever else they were forbidden from discussing, I’d have had respect. Was honestly hoping that’s what Burr was intending to do. I’d have donated to the GoFundMe for them to fight the inevitable lawsuit from the Saudis.
Obviously didn’t happen. We live in a difficult world, and when presented with the choice between fighting (hard) and rolling over (easy), people take the obvious choice. I don’t know if I’m doing it differently.
Are these sets even recorded and able to be viewed somewhere, or were they essentially private? If they’re private, I dunno, I get it.
I don’t think the consequences of that would be a lawsuit. I think they’d go missing and would only be “found” as a mutilated corpse to send a message to anyone else who might have similar ideas. Or, if they are feeling bold enough, they might even do it officially.
Yeah, as brazen as they are, I don’t think they’re murdering American citizens for breach of contract. Regardless of what they said, it would be an incredibly hostile act towards the US and would lead to sanctions at best.
Wasn’t that journalist an American citizen?
And I question whether it would even lead to real problems with the current admin or if he’d just call it a good idea on social media and applaud them for dealing with someone for saying such nasty things about them. And unleash riot forces on protestors (or just use it as an excuse to try to ramp things up more).
I wouldn’t get so annoyed if they just took the easy path and went along with it. My only reaction would be to perhaps not watch their shows. But taking the easy path while pretending like it is actually virtuous… It just feels very slimy… Now I feel like making fun of this person every time I hear his name.
Comedians understanding that they’re less significant of a form of free speech to society than a free and independent press is basically impossible for some reason.
Guess everyone has a price after all…. I hope they sleep well on their millions now.
that price is less than 1mil apparently, but these comedian are hoping for future comedian gigs which will pay more by MSB
We really got the worst era of comedy. Bunch of court jesters dancing for a king while the city burns
These losers hardly represent all of comedy.
I think they have. They’re the highest paid and most well known. That’s what defines an era unfortunately. It’s what defines status quo
What’s popular and “well known” is rarely, if ever, innovative. Established comics are always the most boring and hacky of their time. They may have been fresh and innovative once, but once they’re at the top, they just become tired shells of what they once were. The actual trend setters are the up-and-comers. That’s who define the era.
American comedy is become irredeemably lame. Though Jimmy Carr is on the list there too but at least him being a spineless whore is kinda his schtick
There are definitely exceptions. All of the comics mentioned here are people who peaked a decade or more ago, and most of them are extremely out of touch. There are a lot of more contemporary comics who are doing a great job. I don’t see Josh Johnson or Ashley Gavin or Gianmarco Soresi or like the people on Dropout showing up to something like this. There’s a whole generation of great comics, a lot of them coming out of UCB, who are funnier, wittier, and wiser than any of these clowns.
They were funded by these large groups and that isn’t talked about enough. It wasn’t just SA blood money they chased. They took it from hertiage foudation and other conservative groups. Most probably didn’t even realize they were doing it. They’d just get booked through agents. It just happened that these agents were working with groups who probably paid for personality profiles of the lamest comedians who could benefit their cause if they were actually popular.
I’d like to hear if Carr has any additional reasoning than just money.
So far he’s not made a public statement but knowing his shows are mostly people heckling him and him responding I can’t wait to see him called out
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.
Super disappointed in Burr.
Unsubscribed.
I’ve been struggling to get a read on Burr since day one. He’s always seemed to want it both ways. I’m glad he has decided to remove all ambiguity.
They better be funny or they may be killed and cut up into tiny pieces…
I don’t understand how being rich can make someone such a whore ― David Cross
https://officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/my-thoughts-on-the-riyadh-comedy-festival
It’s actually pretty easy to explain why rich people are whores.
The reason they’re rich is that they care so much about money. If they didn’t care about money, then at some point, they’d have enough money, and after that, they won’t be so interested in getting more money. Those people wouldn’t become rich.
Yes, there are exceptions. Some comedians just want to become famous, or want to go down in history as the best comedian. But most of them probably want to become rich and famous.
But what does “rich” mean? It’s not a specific amount of money. It’s that you’re comparing yourself to other people, and saying that you have more money than them. Donald Trump was so obsessed with this that he committed fraud to lie about his wealth. And basically all rich people have the same mindset to some degree.
If your goal is to be rich, then no amount of money is enough, and you’ll do anything if people pay you enough.
The buddha says that the more you have the more you want
Sometimes I forget what a cheatcode for satisfaction being raised Buddhist was
Always loved this guy.
Yes! Very refreshing he had the smart takes after 911 flooded us with jingoistic hypocrisy and ever since.
David has bee speaking the truth since Mr. Show. What a legend.
I almost respect that more than the comedians that play it off as just another act.
Don’t make celebrity performers your idols, folks. They’re mostly psychologically damaged, amoral, backstabbing, money grubbing narcissists.
People: Billionaires are the problem
Also people: OMG Taylor Swift’s new album just dropped! Let’s go buy 3 different versions of it
You don’t get it, she’s a good billionaire because she’s a girl and owns her music. Who cares that she takes a private jet flight for what could be an hour long drive - she could never fly economy due her popularity!
I don’t disagree with you, but this is isn’t exactly “idol” level expectations, either. “Not selling out to horrific regimes” is basic decency I’d expect of everyone, not just those I look up to. Most of the names I see here make sense, but there are a few I expected to be better than this.
Especially comedians… it’s a defense mechanism.
Comedians are probably the most disingenuous ones too, as idols. thier job is to Joke, and you know personally they are either what they joke about(they become the jokes themselves this default for right winger comedians they become thier own jokes, or doing the opposite of what they are joking.
