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"The royals loved the show"
"And they just negotiated it all the way down to just a couple things, which were, basically: Don’t make fun of royals [and] religion.”
Bill Burr everybody!... What a tremendous disappointment.
David Cross has a not particularly surprising but still damning take here:
https://officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/my-thoughts-on-the-riyadh-comedy-festival
He nailed it. I can't take any of the celebrities appearing in this seriously again, and won't be watching them. It's tainted my enjoyment of anything they've done, and will do the same for future work.
Honestly if he had just come out and said "They paid me an ungodly amount of money for this gig, I had to take it." I can understand that justification. Don't sit here and pee in my face and tell me it's raining.
I still wouldn't get it. He has a regular high income, great wife and family - and an estimated net wealth of $30mil.
Couldn't justify this gig unless it was literally billions that he immediately donated to worthy causes.
That's what I don't understand about people like this.
Why go through all this effort, all the stress, hearing everything people say about you being a sellout rat, for what? Is he sitting there going "I can afford a $300,000 car, but if I'm not able to get a $1 million dollar supercar I just don't know how I'm going to cope".
I swear it's a mental illness, like gambling addiction. Just an obsession with wanting a number to go up more and more.
He's trying very hard to frame this as a US versus Saudi Arabia cultural kind of thing. He's trying to pretend the problem people have with him performing there is that they don't like the audience. The regular people of Saudi Arabia. He's lying. He knows good and well the problem is with the people paying for it. The problem is the people putting it on as a propaganda display. It's a sad fucking thing for Bill Burr to do.
Ah! Yah can't do comedy for journalist-murdering, slave-owning Royal regimes anymarh!
Shame.
Ol billy red face.
Patrice was too genuine for the world.
very disappointed. greedy fuck. David Cross wrote an open letter about this and he is spot on. got no respect left for Burr after this. not surprised the rest of them took the money but I thought Burr was above that shit. guess not.
Not yet, Bill. But the administration is working on it.
The joke is in the article, the punchline is in the comments.
I usually like this dude, but he's a bitch on this one.
I belive him if he donates all the earnings to antifascist organisations.
This sounds like something for the comedians to work out among each other in the clubs. I'm curious to see what conclusions they reach.