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Jesus fucking Christ. Fuck Dave Chappelle. Fuck Bill Burr. Fuck Jessica Kirson. Fuck Pete Davidson. Fuck them all. Putting money over their own souls. I guess that I'm not all that surprised. Most of them made their money shitting on minorities. And, I know this sounds stupid, but a few weeks/ months ago, I did kind of call it for Bill Burr. He just never seemed like a guy that really cared imo.

And now I like him more than ever <3

Let's build a society that worships at the altar of capitalism and then be suprised when people prioritize capital over moral integrity.

Saudi just increased the offer until people accepted. Gillis said they immediately doubled the offer when he declined.

Many people like to pretend they don't have a number but even those that are living comfortably often do.

If someone dangled a million in front of you to do work that's essentially a repitition of or derivative of work you'd previously done, how many people do you know would say no to that?

Now these are comedians who are living very comfortably which makes it feel more wrong. But let's not act like we can't understand or relate to why they're doing it. Every single one of us has people in our social circles would take an offer like this.

We all have our hard lines morally, no doubt. But I'd argue the majority of people would accept an offer of x million dollars to do a show in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else, if they didn't think their own safety was at risk.

Perhaps we need to think about how this reflects on society as a whole, and the values we hold, rather than getting angry at any particular devotee to our extractive capitalist systems which uphold greed over moral good.

Michael Ian Black had a pretty good one as well I thought; figure I should give a heads up that he uses substack for anyone that wants to avoid. It was written yesterday, so he specifically calls out some of the comments from the chapelle slot, as well as taking down Burr’s post show comments. Also thought his comment for louis ck was good:

As for Louis, at this point I don’t expect him to have a moral compass so whatever

That’s like everyone

What the fuck Hannibal, you quit the Eric Andre Show and are now pulling this shit?

Jim Jefferies is not in the program. I think he was invited, accepted but was later dropped. Still, nor me that's the only disappointment. I don't know or care for all the rest but I liked Jefferies and I thought he had some good takes and interesting things to say. I think in the end all of them just get old and lose focus. Expect Carlin. He was sharp till the very end.

Also promote the person that was meant to go, but Saudi Arabia wouldn't let him, though since the payment also had a good down payment, he got paid and didn't go. Tim Dillon. Also, he's a self described "cock-gobbling f-slur" so I'm not even sure how they accepted him in the first place.

This is how I know I've not cared for the comedy scene for a while because, to me, that list is so unnoteworthy. I know or have seen clips of some of them but I've always thought they're kinda mid to low tier.

Saudi Arabia did 9/11, wrecked the golfing world, and now they're going to wreck comedy, too.

I can't wait for them to go after music, too.

Yup. Fuck Bill Burr.

The thing about Burr is the vast majority of people just didn't bother to "hear the rest of the joke"

Like the joke he had about Beyonce performing for some dudes bday party in the middle east and the guy was like right up there with Saudi Princes and Burr denounces Beyonce for doing it....the punchline being he'd do the same shit as her.

His whole schtick with the billionaires was a bit. all the time he says this stuff and people decide to stop hitting record JUST before he says he'd do the same thing.

And all these comedians have the same song and dance with very few exceptions. They're ONLY pro freespeech when their jobs are on the line, when there's potential to lose money. Just like they came out and support kimmel and colbert yeah man all about Free Speech, against cancel culture, all that. BUT when there's an easy million dollars to be made? fuck free speech.

If the FCC or Trump came out and said "I'll give any comedian a couple million if they help me denounce Kimmel and Colbert" there'd be a line of them around the block waiting to take a swing.

Pete Davidson is disappointing as well.

His father died on 9/11 and he's up dancing for those responsible.

I mean, it is a massive joke. Just turns out to be a real one too

It reminds me of the old reagan Soviet joke.

A Soviet and an american are having a conversation. The American is bragging about free speech, and says:

"our country is so free, I could go to the white house and yell 'go to hell Ronald Reagan!'

And nothing would happen to me.

The Russian replies,

"Our speech is pretty free too, I guess, I also could go to the Kremlin, shout 'Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!' And nothing would happen to me, either."