My thoughts are that most people, especially people in the entertainment business who you don't know are likely to take hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to do a single comedy show regardless of who pays them.
I don’t hold comedians to a higher standard, but unfortunately I HAVE to participate in society and so do m somewhat beholden to whatever my government does with my tax money. I don’t have to support a comedians work, however.
For me it's the fact that they are going to perform in a place that punishes people (often by death) for saying the "wrong" thing. You go there to perform you can't ever complain about censorship again, you are actively supporting those who censor in the worst way possible.
Honestly, if you were offered a first-class flight, a 6-star hotel stay, and a few hundred thousand dollars for a couple of hours of work, it'd be very, very hard to turn down.
It's easy for us to stay up on our high-horse when it'd never be anything other than an entirely hypothetical situation. Everyone has a price. I can't really fairly judge any of them on a moral level, but I can say that I'm disappointed and find some of them fairly hypocritical now.
This. If a friend of mine got life-changing money to go do a few hours of work, I honestly wouldn’t judge him based on where the money was coming from. But if this friend was already worth millions and he didn’t need the money? F*** him, then. I expect better.
aziz is most likely getting offered somewhere around 750k-1mil. the lowest offer was to tim dillon for 350k. the bigger names are getting around a million with chapelle supposedly around 2 mil.
you don't understand what the person you replied to meant. it's easy to talk in hypotheticals but if you had 100 million you would most likely do this for another million. that's just how rich people mindset works. once you have real money you only want more of it (greed is never satisfied)
i am disappointed in aziz but at the same time i get it and still look forward to all his future works
Actually it is easy. My morals would never - I’d rather live in a filthy one bedroom apartment and be able to sleep at night VS these motherfuckers who can’t buy their next vacation home this year if they turn it down.
The US is solely responsible for SA having influence the way they do in the Middle East. The US created a vacuum by destroying several other nations. That’s what over a decade of bombing Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria will do. If that’s not enough for you then consider all the other havoc the US has wrecked around the world.
My thoughts are that most people, especially people in the entertainment business who you don't know are likely to take hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to do a single comedy show regardless of who pays them.
Disappointed in Aziz tbh
Really a terrible decision. It shows where his views align and apparently that's not with mine.
To me, Burr is the biggest hypocrite given all the shit he would constantly say about billionaires and yet he takes blood money.
I lost respect for him.
Shill burr
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I don’t hold comedians to a higher standard, but unfortunately I HAVE to participate in society and so do m somewhat beholden to whatever my government does with my tax money. I don’t have to support a comedians work, however.
For me it's the fact that they are going to perform in a place that punishes people (often by death) for saying the "wrong" thing. You go there to perform you can't ever complain about censorship again, you are actively supporting those who censor in the worst way possible.
YIKES
Honestly, if you were offered a first-class flight, a 6-star hotel stay, and a few hundred thousand dollars for a couple of hours of work, it'd be very, very hard to turn down.
It's easy for us to stay up on our high-horse when it'd never be anything other than an entirely hypothetical situation. Everyone has a price. I can't really fairly judge any of them on a moral level, but I can say that I'm disappointed and find some of them fairly hypocritical now.
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This. If a friend of mine got life-changing money to go do a few hours of work, I honestly wouldn’t judge him based on where the money was coming from. But if this friend was already worth millions and he didn’t need the money? F*** him, then. I expect better.
aziz is most likely getting offered somewhere around 750k-1mil. the lowest offer was to tim dillon for 350k. the bigger names are getting around a million with chapelle supposedly around 2 mil.
you don't understand what the person you replied to meant. it's easy to talk in hypotheticals but if you had 100 million you would most likely do this for another million. that's just how rich people mindset works. once you have real money you only want more of it (greed is never satisfied)
i am disappointed in aziz but at the same time i get it and still look forward to all his future works
Actually it is easy. My morals would never - I’d rather live in a filthy one bedroom apartment and be able to sleep at night VS these motherfuckers who can’t buy their next vacation home this year if they turn it down.
I honestly didn’t know he was still doing comedy
The US is worse than they have ever been
The U.S. is bad, of course, but to say that we’re worse than SA is just objectively false
The US is solely responsible for SA having influence the way they do in the Middle East. The US created a vacuum by destroying several other nations. That’s what over a decade of bombing Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria will do. If that’s not enough for you then consider all the other havoc the US has wrecked around the world.
The US has more blood on its hands than any other extant nation and it’s not even close
https://soulofsaudi.com/riyadh-comedy-festival-2025-guide/
Some of the names you can expect include:
Kevin Hart
Dave Chappelle
Andrew Schulz
Aziz Ansari
Andrew Santino & Bobby Lee
Bill Burr
Chris Distefano
Chris Tucker
Gabriel Iglesias
Hannibal Buress
Jessica Kirson
Jimeoin
Jimmy Carr
Jo Koy
Louis C.K.
Mark Normand
Maz Jobrani
Nimesh Patel
Omid Djalili
Pete Davidson
Russell Peters
Sam Morril
Sebastian Maniscalco
Tom Segura
Whitney Cummings
Zarna Garg
Cause things are going so well in the U.S.
Wait you still believe Arabs are behind 9/11?