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[–] 15 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

Wait, what? Why is that? What did I miss?

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  • [–] 44 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

    He performed at the Saudi comedy festival

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    Comedians Mike Birbiglia, Shane Gillis, Stavros Halkias, Leslie Liao, Atsuko Okatsuka and "Weird Al" Yankovic were invited to perform, but they ultimately declined and spoke out against the event.

    Love Weird Al even more. Also:

    Okatsuka posted images of the offer she received, which she said included stipulations that the comedians could not perform material that violated certain Saudi censorship rules.[17] Restricted topics included the country itself, its legal system, the Saudi royal family, and religion.

    I order you to entertain or else vibes.

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  • [–] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    I never read the most of this article. Hilarious that Jim Jeffries spoke out before the event saying, “One journalist died. That’s not a hill I’m going to die on.” Then immediately gets sacked from the event.

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Shane Gillis declined and spoke out about it? That is quite interesting.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Yeah, especially since he's best buddies with Tony "world's youngest pedophile" Hinchcliffe- I was expecting him to go and be excited about it.

    He hangs with literal racists, pedophiles, and nazis, and pretends he's so above all of it. He's so fucking awful.

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