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Fuck I miss Carlin

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

Will people criticizing them stop to play all EA games that are owned now by Saudi Arabia?

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

I wonder what she thinks.

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.’”

the kingdom’s General Entertainment Authority, chaired by Turki al-Sheikh, a royal adviser dogged by allegations of human rights violations, including the detention of people who criticize him on social media.

Sounds like fun.

They better be funny or they may be killed and cut up into tiny pieces.....

These people are all willing to play shows in the US, why wouldn't you expect them to play in Saudi Arabia? Sounds like living in denial about our own country. Like the concept of blood diamonds; money from software made in the US has funded conflict all over the globe but no one called it blood software. We used to export soybeans and used the money to bomb foreigners and no one called em blood soybeans.

Moral failings are always some other countries problem, we're the shining city on the hill remember? /s

Guess everyone has a price after all…. I hope they sleep well on their millions now.

Jo Koy hurt me the most. First time I saw my wife crying with joy over his Asian accents bit. He's not nearly so funny if you're not Filipino, or are at least close to the community, but he's still damned good.

Guess they all got caught up in the idea that, "Everyone else is doing it!" And honestly? I could see myself fall into that.

I'm sure I'll get beat up for making excuses for them. But I'm not that guy, and I wasn't there. Were you?

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.

You guys expect way too much from the court jesters. There's plenty of serious enterprises investing heavily in SA, go after them if this is something you care deeply about. Comedians aren't supposed to be the moral pulse of society and yet that's how almost all conversations about them are framed these days.

The Grift must go on!

Paid to look the other way eh, fine I choose to do the same and look and support the performers that boycotted or refused and look away from you.

“We’re starving too!““ Said comics and artists who definitely are not starving, especially after performing in Saudi Arabia

I wish I could pirate this media more, but I’m already not paying for it. But, at least, I can go online and be indignant about it!

It's kind of a who's who of questionable comedians. Curious from a moral perspective: if one takes the gig and donates their proceeds to a charitable cause, are they off the hook?

Another thing I'm reminded of is, I've heard many big comedians have had a gig at a corporate event at one point or another (I've heard some refer to them as terrible audiences lol). In that world, you're kinda trained early on to never turn down a gig... but if they were to headline a company event for say, Nestle or United Healthcare or something, are we ok with that too?