So I use to live in Riyadh and worked for a defense company. I left during covid and seen a lot of hate filled shit there. The people in general, were very nice but I'm an American and male.

My wife is not an American or Saudian. She would be harrassed and even hit by the locals. They looked down on her unless I was around.

At work, I would routine run into non-Americans/Saudians. Holy shit did they treat them bad. From forcing them to do degrading stuff or just belittle them in public.

Those were just the "normal" people. The royal family members were on a completely different level. Everyone used encrpyted chat services and if you posted about anything illegal, expect the Matowa (secret police) to visit your ass.

Fuck all those going there and speaking all rosey for blood money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Promotion_of_Virtue_and_the_Prevention_of_Vice_(Saudi_Arabia)

He made fun of trans people and trans people pushed back.

If you support trans people in Saudi Arabia the government throws you in jail.

What happened to this guy? Like seriously. He went away and then came with this fucking terminal brainrot and he just can't stop saying stupid shit

This guy is a clown and not the funny kind. He likes to pretend he’s still one of the little people from the streets, all he cares about is money.

"It’s easier to talk here than it is in America,"

Yeah, as long as you don't say anything about the imprisonments and murders without fair trial, religious intolerance, or make fun of the kings Mu'umu'u.

he hated that he was called out for being a transphobic person, thats the real reason. now that hes in a country that hates lgbtq+ he feels welcomed.

Who the F does a "Comedy Festival" in Saudi Arabia, of all places? What's next? North Korea? The USA?

The irony of a black man who has felt the impairment of his own freedoms so clearly and so often, now taking coins to make joke about the same to those who would themselves be his enslavers in a slightly different circumstance. Look at who does all the shittiest jobs in Saudi Arabia.

Dear Dave Chepple, Billy Burka, and the rest of hypocrite moralless indignified sellouts:

You have looted blood money from the taxes of oppressed unrepresented beheaded people in a dictatorship. The executioner asked you to dance to distract the world and cover up the blood of slaughtered protestors and humanright activists for him while he beheads them. And you gladly obliged.

So just answer my questions with your freedom of speech Dave.

You know you were not paid by the "6000" attendees. The tickets cost from $13 to $80 for the whole week with each day featuring more than 1 comic.

So how did you alone get paid $1.6millions Dave? What's the name of this organizing company? Where did they get this money from which they gave to dance Dave? Why is this Muslim Arabic country overpaying international celebeities to perform there? Not humanright washing... no.. no.

What happened to the Saudi citizens who complained about their wealth in billions of dollars going to overpaid LIV athletes, boxing athletes, soccer, esports kids, Hiphop concerts, and now you Dave?

Excessive income causes brain damage

Bill Burr is the only one that really got to me. I loved that guy. But I just can't see him the same way anymore

Makes it so easy to find the people who don't give a fuck about women when they suck the Saudi teats so openly

That's not what free speech is. The government has never attacked Chapelle for his speech.

His bigoted shit just isn't funny to GenZ and they don't mind telling him.

It's our right to Freedom of Association he has an issue with.

Chappelle has always been tone-deaf about many things, he's just more obvious about it since he's older. Glad more and more people are noticing his hypocrisy

“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle told an audience of 6,000, according to The New York Times. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.” He then added, “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

I love your comedy Dave, but the sell-out you’ve become invalidates your position as a truth-teller right when America needs you the most. You built your career on raw talent and hard work without bowing to your masters at Comedy Central, and you don’t need to do this either. If you ever manage to un-sew your lips from the royal prince’s gold-shitting anus, please come back to us.

Obligatory take from another of my favorite comedians.

Jim Jefferies, Jimmy Carr, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson... I was surprised to see these names on the lineup, what a bunch of sellouts.

This is from their contracts (found on https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-30/riyadh-comedy-festival-begins-with-pete-davidson-bill-burr/105833686):

I used to love chapel. Now not so much. He drank the Joe Rogan kool-aid

I invite you to stay there, Mr. Chappelle.

He referenced the Charlie Kirk situation. He didn't say anything about Charlie Kirk. He's nothing more than a rightwing propagandist these days.

I don't understand how for the last ten years this guy has been allowed to just associate with other comics like he's not a fucking pariah.

So what did he actually say?

“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle told an audience of 6,000, according to The New York Times. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.” He then added, “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

Well, that sounds... accurate. Doesn't excuse the other things he's said, but... yea.

Edit: I stand by the first part of my comment. I was not paying enough attention to the second half ("it's easier to talk here..."). That part, not so much.

Aw man Bill Burr went too? Goddammit.

Bad title. He's criticizing the state of free speech in America citing the Jimmy Kimmel cancellation and people fired / cancelled over Charlie Kirk speech.

I’ll bet ya a whole dollar that he doesn’t know who Jamal Khashoggi was.