Makes it so easy to find the people who don't give a fuck about women when they suck the Saudi teats so openly
This was harsh. Extremely funny but also harsh
Not wrong though
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
He's also an active stain on his hometown, among other vile behavior. 🤷🏼♂️
Die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
It's so true yet so sad
I invite you to stay there, Mr. Chappelle.
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.
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 don’t think anyone thought he was criticizing free speech. Yes, it’s a bad title, but it’s still hilarious to go to Saudi Arabia and pretend like they have more free speech rights
i did :(
Reading the comments here, a LOT of people seemed to think that he was criticizing free speech. Like, no curiosity whatsoever, just jump straight into judgement. 🙃
Excessive income causes brain damage
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.
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):
Pete Davison is just mind blowing. He can’t even make jokes about how SA murdered his Jewish dad, while he sucks the dick of the men who murdered his dad
Who was his dad?
"Peter Michael Davidson was born on November 16, 1993 in the Staten Island borough of New York City to parents Amy (née Waters) and Scott Matthew Davidson. Scott was a New York City firefighter for Ladder 118 who died in service during the September 11th attacks, along with the rest of his unit."
Ah ok. I thought he might have been a reporter who fell a foul of the kingdom.
Jimmy Carr isn't a surprise.
when has Jimmy Carr ever been a surprise?
Do jump scares count as surprises? If so, then frequently.
“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.
I used to love chapel. Now not so much. He drank the Joe Rogan kool-aid
He also sent strong antivax messages to black Americans. I liked his comedy but he got addicted to money and is a disappointing human.
Well I'm sure he found some way to blame it on trans people.
I’ll bet ya a whole dollar that he doesn’t know who Jamal Khashoggi was.
Riiiiight, man I used to like him
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.
We assume the personas we see on the screen are a representation of the people they really are. If we really saw the truth behind our media we would feel hollow and sad and empty and realize how little substance there actually is in the world, so on some level we choose to believe what we already know to be untrue, because we prefer it this way.
Because comics are whores
meanwhile....
Tim Dillon Just Got Fired from Riyadh Comedy Festival
https://www.cracked.com/article_48429_tim-dillon-just-got-fired-from-riyadh-comedy-festival.html
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
You can't make observational comedy about being a young and hungry comedian/writer when you've spent the last decade being wealthy and out-of-touch.
If he was still clever, he probably could've threaded the transphobia needle and either figured a way to make it right or made it so funny that enough people would enjoy it regardless. But now he's cranky and spoiled by success so he's just going to get angry, which is even less funny.
he had a chance to switch material towards kind of humor George Carlin started doing later in his career - discussing serious subject matter in somewhat jovial manner with continuous punching up. Instead he chose the worst kind of punching down and when you're a rich guy mocking the poor and struggling - yeah, that's just bad.
Dude is a rich fuck who still bitches that other even richer fucks “stole” his money. And my poor ass is supposed to relate. He has been rich for most of his life but likes to pretend he’sa regular guy. He lives on another planet surrounded by bubbles of assistants and staff that kiss his ass
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 mean ... a TV host just got fired/scathed/re-hired for talking about the fallout of a murder at a political rally.
So ... maybe the USA is not doing well with free speech.
It's not, and criticizing it is fair, but... from Saudi Arabia? The Trump admin is basically modelling themselves off their shit at this point. If he really felt this way in general, he wouldn't have performed at this show in the first place. Criticizing the way free speech is handled in one country while in another country known for chopping up journalists is tone-deaf and comes off as self-serving.
"I'm starting to think we expect too much from our clowns"
this quote is the best thing that i have to offer.
Isn't he the piece of shit that was enjoying that someone that interrupted his show because of the shit he was saying, got heavily beaten up by security?
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