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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

“One reporter was killed by the government – unfortunate, but not a fucking hill that I’m gonna die on,” Jim Jefferies said on Theo Von’s podcast in August, 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. (Since making the comments, Jefferies has since disappeared from the festival’s lineup; his representatives did not respond to inquiries about this.)

lol

How high is that number? According to Dillon, pretty high: in the same podcast that got him fired, he said the organizers offered him $375,000 and claimed that some comedians were offered millions. Gillis did not reveal how much the organizers offered him, but he did say that when he initially refused, they “doubled the bag”. Tough news for Dillon, who elsewhere claimed he asked for $500,000 but had to settle for less.

[Nimesh Patel] suggested that he could make up for the loss by performing “40 shows … here in the perfectly clean, moral, above-everyone-else United States of America.”

Would be funny if any of these comedians accepted but did a shit job on purpose to get booed off stage, then just explained that stunt as "giving their money's worth"

[–] wildflower@lemmy.world 183 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"...He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’” "

Apparently $375,000 is enough for Pete Davidson to piss on his fathers memory

[–] Saff@lemmy.ml 94 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess for most people it would be. Certainly I’d be like “sorry dad but I can buy a house an have my future be much more secure” if my kid did the same I’d like to think I’d understand as well…but this is for normal people. To these very well known and well off comedians is 375k that much? It’s like the equivalent of me getting like 5k which I’m not sure I would betray my morals for. Having said that nobody’s offering me 5k to!

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, that makes sense, except that Pete Davidson is a millionaire who owns a house on Staten Island. He lives in a loft in Brooklyn that costs 30k/month

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, that's why he needs the money! 😂

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You gotta support that lifestyle that you're used to.

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

So true. I'm laughing, but dying inside. It's so gross to see that amount of money just be wasted. There's no reasons other than status and you want to be gaudy.

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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

He's now working for his parent's murderer.

It pays well...well it pays.

[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 155 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The lineup features Dave Chappelle, Louis CK, Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari and Jo Koy, among many others who are all taking their fees directly from the Saudi government.

Burr being on that list surprises me, but it said he’s also been to UAE. Davidson is pissing on his father’s grave.

They have also taken flak from their peers. “The same guy that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a fucking suitcase,” said Marc Maron in a standup clip posted on his Facebook.

Exactly.

Greedy fucks, all of them.

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[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 100 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

I used to love standup comedy. These days I feel as though so much of the mainstream comedy scene is made up of immature losers who peaked in highschool. Joe Rogan, Bert Kreisher, Bobby Lee, Chris Distefano... I cannot stand these guys. The list goes on.

I thought Bill Burr was different. I'm really disappointed.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (9 children)

burr at least spoke out against the billionaire class....

but then he took the fucking bonesaw money. fuck.

[–] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Should we start calling him Bonesaw Bill or Bonesaw Burr.

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Taylor Tomlinson popped up on my feeds and it's a fresh breath. Gianmarco Soresi did as well, but I doubt I'll watch his special

Taylor's, though, I'd go see that live, and I'm not somebody to go to comedy clubs

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Don’t make celebrity performers your idols, folks. They’re mostly psychologically damaged, amoral, backstabbing, money grubbing narcissists.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People: Billionaires are the problem

Also people: OMG Taylor Swift's new album just dropped! Let's go buy 3 different versions of it

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[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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?

I wouldn't boycott someone for performing here, but I think performers should boycott America.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (26 children)

Here's a full list:

  • Mo Amer
  • Aziz Ansari
  • Wayne Brady
  • Hannibal Buress
  • Bill Burr
  • Jimmy Carr
  • Dave Chappelle
  • Louis C.K.
  • Whitney Cummings
  • Pete Davidson
  • Chris Distefano
  • Omid Djalili
  • Zarna Garg
  • Ben Hart
  • Kevin Hart
  • Gabriel Iglesias
  • Jimeoin
  • Maz Jobrani
  • Jessica Kirson
  • Jo Koy
  • Bobby Lee
  • Sebastian Maniscalco
  • Sam Morril
  • Mark Normand
  • Russell Peters
  • Jeff Ross
  • Sugar Sammy
  • Andrew Santino
  • Andrew Schulz
  • Tom Segura
  • Ali Siddiq
  • Cipha Sounds
  • Aries Spears
  • Chris Tucker
  • Jack Whitehall

Happy Boycott!

EDIT: Corrected and expanded now, based on the feedback and what seem to be Saudi websites in English.

[–] 9limmer@piefed.zip 93 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Be sure to fact check before putting people on blast and ruining their reputation.

The following comedians were openly critical of those who took the gig. These comedians DID NOT go. Okatsuka specifically revealed the details of the contract these comedians had to sign. Woods made a scathing video that went viral criticizing the lineup.

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 60 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Burr being on that list makes me angry. Come on man.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 week ago

Yeah man, fuck. Saw his jpg-artifact-face on the Cross response linked in the thread and just thought, no, cannot be right. And here we are. So now there were two terrible people on the Mandalorian show, damn.

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[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Aziz Ansari? Goddamn it...

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[–] siskourso@odin.lanofthedead.xyz 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No not Bill Burr come on man.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's been even worse since he got back and has been defending it. His supposed defenses make it so much worse for me.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s not accurate. Marc Maron criticized it heavily. Shane Gillis turned it down.

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[–] treno_rosso@feddit.org 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

That is at least an honest approach instead of "We'll change things over there with our comedy".

Just stfu next time it's about politics (hint: they won't).

The only guy that is surprising for me is Bill Burr. Not exactly financially hanging on by a thread but still selling out like that.

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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

We really got the worst era of comedy. Bunch of court jesters dancing for a king while the city burns

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Super disappointed in Burr.

Unsubscribed.

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[–] floopus@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Can't believe bill burr went. Turns out all of his billionaire critics were just meaningless

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[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Literal blood money bruh

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"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.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Inb4 they whine in their next comedy specials that they're 'being cancel cultured again by Gen Z' and this time its 'just for working'.

Cue laughs from conservatives.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Likewise we're not paid enough to be their audience. Grifters, kindly fuck off the stage.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

The title quote is from Tim Dillon, article has a similar quote from Pete Davidson

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