#riyadh-comedy-festival

#riyadh-comedy-festival

Comedians looking to donate their fee from the Riyadh Comedy Festival, look elsewhere. A spokesperson for Human Rights Watch told it "cannot accept" money from comedians who have "generously offered to donate part of their performance fees." According to Arvind Ganesan, Human Rights Watch's head of economic justice and rights division, taking money from people who took money from the government of Saudi Arabia could "create the perception that somehow we compromised our independence after the fact."

This is something that's become a big part of the news because people, a lot of comedians especially, are very upset because the people who paid the comedians to come to this are not good people. It's a pretty brutal regime. They've done a lot of horrible, horrible things... I'm curious as to why you decided to do that.

I think the problem with the Bill Burrs and the Chappelles, or anybody in general, is if you're going to pitch like Aziz Ansari if you're going to pitch woke bullsh*t here about people and people being oppressed and violence against women and all the shit you throw up every day, spare us when you go over there and take a check

Two people died and four others were seriously injured after an attack at a synagogue in Manchester in the United Kingdom. The assault took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Also, citizens from four Caribbean nations - Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines - can now live and work in each others' countries without the requirements of visas, residency permits or other extensive paperwork.

How do you even promote that? From the folks that brought you 9/11. Two weeks of laughter in the desert, don't miss it!