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Dave Chappelle Says ‘I Resent the Republican Party’ Because They ‘Weaponized’ Transgender Jokes: ‘That’s Not What I Was Doing’ (variety.com)

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've installed "Highlight This!" Firefox extension and added all the comedians that went to Saudi Arabia there. Now whenever one of them pops out on any site I know to just ignore it.

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Dave Chappelle Kevin Hart Aziz Ansari Pete Davidson Andrew Schulz Jo Koy Bill Burr Jessica Kirson Jimmy Carr Louis C.K. Sebastian Maniscalco Maz Jobrani Tom Segura Whitney Cummings Jimeoin Russell Peters Andrew Santino Bobby Lee Chris Distefano Mark Normand Gabriel Iglesias Hannibal Buress Sam Morril Jeff Ross Omid Djalili Ali Siddiq Zarna Garg Chris Tucker Ben Hart Jim Jefferies

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Burr was hardest to hit when that list first came out. Dudes funny and always seemed to have a good head, (as redheaded as it is). Talk about a career ending decision, yeesh.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He probably expected future gigs and payments from the saudias

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

If they had done a world tour thing, even just a couple more spots, that would have been different.

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

talk about a career ending decision

Sadly I don't think many people care outside of the internet left bubble.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

He cares and he knows his fans care

[–] oldwoodenship@lemmus.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was really disappointed by that one. I’ve loved him since his first special but after taking blood money from the Saudis I just can’t watch anymore of his shit.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Old' Billy Bloodmoney

[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

He's still pretty sexist.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How did he rationalize it? Does it hold a drop?

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From what i know it's he defended the tour with the same PR nonsense all the others gave, like they agreed on reasons together. They claim it's racist to not do a show for the Saudi people. That completely disregards the fact they performed for the Saudi family. Beyond that i haven't listened to him at all.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kinda disappointed about Jimmy Carr. Don't really care about the rest.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

Bobby Lee went to the festival, I can seem him doing that. He apparently was pretty destitute in his career after madtv

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 20 points 1 day ago

I mean..... It does fit his persona, dude will do anything to fund his endeavor to not look old.

Plus he has a history of tax fraud.