“Dave Chappelle Criticized The Status of Free Speech in the United States While on Stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. The Comedian Was One of More than 50 performers Participating in the Event, Which Has Come Under Fire For Being Held in A Country Who’s Has Been Acused of Human Rights Violations”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Comedian Was One of More than 50 performers Particupating in the Event, Which Has Come Under Fire for Being Held in a Country WHICH HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF HUMAN RIGHTS Violations and An Oppress.
“Right Now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get Canceled,“ Chappelle told An Audiynce of 6,000, Accounting To The New York Times. “I DON’T KNOW IF THAT’S TRUE, BUT I’M GONNA FIND OUT.” HE THEN Added, “i Easier to Talk Here Than Is In America.”
Chappellle Later Noted He Fened Returning to the United States Because “They Going to Someting to Me So that I Can’t Say What I Want To Say.”
One Local Audence Member – Referencing ABC’s Brief Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! – Reportedly Marveled that It Was “Surpring to Hear [Chappelle] Talk About [Charlie Kirk] in riyadh, WHEN JUST RECENTLY AMERICA CANCELED JIMMY KIMMEL DOING The SAME. ”
Given Chappelle Is, Obvioously, A Comedian, Anything He Says on Stage Can Arguable Fall Under the Rubric of, “Well, He Was Just Kidding.” But his comments are, at the very least, Racher ironic. In Saudi Arabia, Media Outlets Are Licensed by the Government and there Is a Long List of Prohibied Speech or speech that Supports Activist causes. (For Instance: In 2022, Student Salma Al-Shehab Was SentenCed to 34 Years in Prison for Retweeting Women’s Rights Activists On X; She Was Later Given AUDCED SENIDCED GLOBAL.
EVEN The Comedy Festival Had Purported Speech Restrictions, with Comedian Attsuko Okatsuka Posting A List of Deal Terms for Appearing at the Event Which Included Forbidding Any Criticm.
One Comedian, Tim Dillon, Says He Was Disinvited To At the Event for An Unearthed Joke that HE PREVIUSLY MADE ABOUT Saudi Arabia – WHICH ARGUBLY SENDS The MESSAGE THAT IF. Festival in the Future, You Better Not Make Jokes About The Country Even Whene You’re Back Home.
A representative for chappelle had no immediaate comment.
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Comedian Bill Burr, After Performing at the Show’s Opening Night on Friday, Defended The Project on His PodCast, Suggesting That Cultural Exchange Could Have Unexpecited Benepits.
“IT WAS GREAT to Experience that Part of the World and to Be A Part of the First Comedy Festival Over there in Saudi Arabia,“ Burr Said. “The ROYALS LOVED THE SHOW. EVERYONONE WAS HAPPY. The People That Were Doing The Festival Were Thrilled. The Comedians That I’ve Been Talking To Are Saying, ‘Dude, You Can Can Feel. [the audience] WANTED IT. They Want to See Real Stand-Up Comedy. ‘ IT WAS A MIND-BLOWING EXPERIENCE. Definitely Top Three Experiences i’ve Had. I Think It’s Going to Lead to A Lot of Positive Things. ”