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Saudi Arabia is having a comedy festival. That’s a joke in and of itself. But you’re not allowed to make it in Saudi Arabia. Or most jokes really.
A comedy festival, unlike the races or wrestling matches the Saudis host, involves a certain amount of free speech. Any comedian going off to perform in Saudi Arabia obviously isn’t especially into free speech.
So the Saudi comedy lineup is revealing and it shows what some comics who used to stand for free speech have turned into.
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
“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.”
You can bash Charlie Kirk in Saudi Arabia. Now go ahead and mention Islam.
Obviously not an issue for Chapelle who’s a Muslim. That may be another reason he’s so comfortable in Saudi Arabia.
Bash Charlie Kirk and maybe ABC will briefly suspend your late night show. Mention the wrong thing in Saudi Arabia and parts of you will be in different bags.
Chapelle’s argument though harkens back to an actual joke that, unlike his set, is funny.
“Two men, an American and a Russian were arguing. One said, in my country I can go to the white house walk to the president’s office and pound the desk and say “Mr. President! I don’t like how you’re running things in this country!”
The Russian said “I can do that too!”
“Really?”
“Yes! I can go to the Kremlin, walk into the general secretary’s office and pound the desk and say, Mr. Secretary, I don’t like how Reagan is running his country!”
Whatever.
What about a registered Qatari agent, FBI Director Josh Patel, breaking the agency’s ties to the ADL today, Yom Kippur?
Just because you or I might not like Obama appointee Greenblatt, am I supposed to like a Qatari lobbyist breaking ties with an old, large Jewish organization?
Am I, an American Jew ( such that it is), being ruled by a Qatari agent?
Excellent question.
Now as for comedy and freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia…sure kicking an American who died by an unhinged, leftist, transgender loving, hate filled human being is fair game for the humor mill but just watch if he says ANYTHING about Islam. Are Americans this ignorant? Maybe Dave should try taking swipes at the Saudi’s for the big jet they gave Trump, or the HUGE deal with the Saudis giving them yet another powerful entree into America. Do you think they’ll be promoting women’s rights and freedom of religion for Jews and Christians?
Chapelle’s comedy is no Lenny Bruce, but the money and accommodations there for smacking down America are just fine and he will never know how he will be trashed by them behind his back…in Arabic, of course.
Patel has kicked the ADL to the curb?
What an excellent move for the safety of Jews in America, and pretty much anywhere else.
The ADL is another organisation that has been taken over the extreme left and rendered unfit for purpose.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
― Kevin Alfred Strom
Yes, “Kevin Alfred Strom”, the neo – Nazi pedophile, fan of the Nation of Islam and promoter of the new Cosmotheist religion
He was so unsavory that a lot of people who found this statement useful or catchy still ended up using it, while attributing it to somebody else — Voltaire for one, I think.
Orwell surmised that an author who had attributed to Thackery a quote from that then-unfashionable horrid vulgar chap Rudyard Kipling had committed a “Freudian” error: “A civilized person would prefer not to quote Kipling –i.e. would prefer not to feel that it was Kipling who had expressed his thought for him”
Or respected Kipling, the good bad poet
Kipp.img was hated by the leftist..
At the imperialist oppressor.
A brilliant nationalist
I did not know that. I guess even an ass can speak truth sometimes!
ADL commie not Jewish these days. But of course you knew that. And there are No Muslim ‘countries’ that should be trusted , being as they are Muslim and by their religion they are duplicitous troglodytes. Bless all Christians Jews and Weatern Civilization. And Dan another excellent column.
Those Soviet era jokes are great 🙂
A train bearing Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev stops suddenly when the tracks run out. Each leader applies his own, unique solution. Lenin gathers workers and peasants from miles around and exhorts them to build more track. Stalin shoots the train crew when the train still doesn’t move. Khrushchev rehabilitates the dead crew and orders the tracks behind the train ripped up and relaid in front.
I liked this one because I was recently reading about an actual case, where the train ran out of tracks so they tore up the track behind and laid it in front.
A bit too rosey. Lenin would have had some workers and peasants shot immediately just to “encourage the others.” He was a hard case that way.
I seem to recall that in the Charles Bronson Western BREAKHEART PASS the villains tear up some track behind them in order to lay it in front, the better to carry out their fiendish plot. (I can’t remember just what the villains were trying to accomplish, though.)
Chapelle should be filed in the same dark place as the former Cat Stevens. Both great disappointments who were once significant talents. Very dispiriting.
Crazy Cat! aka Yusef Islam an insufferable islamic fanatic and bore. I know nothing but the name and media headlines about this islamic Chapelle creature but he looks a nerdy traitor. The West has long sold its mind, body and soul to islamic oil money. Everything from “comedy” to golf to sporting events to fashion shows to film festivals have relocated to the middle east where filthy islamic oil corruption cash flows more unctiously than Styx the River of Hate. Islam is now the world’s super culture.
Yesterday my car cd player broke while I was stuck in traffic gridlock so I had no music because I cannot listen to “radio”, not just because it’s all woke shit but because of the cringe commercials and idiots talking. However to distract myself from my road rage, I turned on a jazz channel and the name of the light instrumental being played was displayed on the radio’s mini screen: “Tribute to Mohammed”. I live in Toronto. Just before my fist smashed the off button, the “song” ended and the radio idiot proclaimed in a smug singsong that “today is national truth and reconciliation day in canada!”, aka slap a white “settler” with a stinky moccasin day. Trudeau invented this “holiday” during “her” woke reign of terror.
I’ve finally reached the very last molecule of my patience with Western people. When they all go up in islamic flames, I will indeed cry – with laughter.
To appreciate Cat Stevens when he was good, purchase the DVD “Haold And Maude.”
Cat’s music is massaged deep into that film in the same way that Simon And Garfunkel were massaged into “The Graduate”, and The Loving Spoonful were massaged into “What’s Up Tiger Lily”, and Alan Price was massaged into “O Lucky Man.”
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All Four of these DVDs are not to be missed.
None were exactly about the musical acts involved, but rather used the lyric themes the acts favored in the storylines; These films belonged to the directors and producers, IOW….and NOT the musicians’ management.
Oh I was a Cat fan from day 1 — his 1967 hit “The First Cut Is The Deepest” is gold as are his two 1970 classic albums. I played my “Tea for the Tillerman” album till it wore out and still listen to mp3s of it and other fave songs of his (“Lady D’Arbanville” amazing). This is why I was so sickened by Cat’s islamic “transing” in the 1990s when he began putting out hate speech press release islam rants that I followed and critiqued when I wrote a column for a leftish mag back then. Cat got a terminal case of islamic Cat Scratch Fever and used it to claw his old fans to shreds.
You have excellent musical knowledge — those four films used their scores as intrinsic parts of those films all of which I saw years ago (in the early 70s at a midnight movie place that allowed pot smoking and all drug use – during John Water’s “Female Trouble” an LSD-tripping friend of mine actually passed out from laughing so hard – oh the good old days!) — I still have these films as mp4 files especially my fave The Graduate with my fave line: “One word, Benjamin. Plastics.”
“Female Trouble” — John Waters’ predictive film about performative violence.
He wanted to satarize and be funny. He has seen his jokey nightmares come true. On HIS DVD releases, his commentary tracks are are now better than the original films.
Sheesh! You “lived” up to your handle.
Maybe Chappelle can make jokes about the role of Muslims in enslaving many people, black and white.
Maybe he can make a joke about why eunuchs cost more in the slave market.
C’mon Dave, how hard is it to come up with jokes about many women wearing the identical outfits with their faces covered having group photos taken? How about Mohammed marrying a six-year old?
Finding porn on Osama Bin Laden’s computer has to make for some very funny jokes.
Here’s a challenge for readers. If Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle took the “n-word” out of their routines, whose routine would get shorter by the most?
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I saw this clip from a comic this AM, don’t recall who.
“How do you promote something like this?”
Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia
From
The people who brought you 9/11.
Meh. Who cares? The guy is an uneducated fool of questionable intelligence. And he’s a comedian; a court jester otherwise known as a clown with jokes. Why take such people seriously?
What this numbnuts has to say is about as interesting as listening to a braying jackass.
All those Campuses who restrict Free Speech toa certian place on Campus should geta big Lawsuit against them
“Dave Chappelle: There’s More Free Speech in Saudi Arabia Than America
Because you can bash Charlie Kirk in Saudi Arabia.” Only a coward, and America hater would make such a statement. Chappelle ignores that fact that he is rich only because he lives in America. He also will never consider actually living in Saudi Arabia because his personal belief & personal habits will get him arrested for sure. Let him touch one of their women or ask for some pork chops at the cafe and he will find out what I’m talking about.
I’m late to the table – yes another UFO abduction – why not – it’s my pronoun.
I never got Dave Chappell – I thought he was weak for walking away from a $60 million dollar deal –
I didn’t know he is myzzlym – I don’t care what his religion is –
I suspect Chappell is antisemitic – he’s a damn fool like the rest of the damned fools that mocked or celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death – hell those are the same fools that burned down cities after George Floyd OD’d.
But you know, Dave Chappell, it takes a big man to admit you are wrong – and dude you are wrong – which makes me the bigger man —
I can’t help remembering an old joke from the Reagan days, before he brought about the collapse of the USSR:
An American and a Russian were having a few drinks at a bar across the street from the U.N. Pretty soon, they got into an argument about which country had more freedom.
The American told the Communist, “Obviously we have more freedom here in the U.S. For example, I can march up and down right in front of the White House carrying a banner saying ‘Reagan is an asshole, a Nazi, and a threat to World Peace,’ and absolutely nothing will happen to me; I won’t be arrested, thrown in jail, tortured, or executed!”
The Soviet smirked and replied, “So? I can march up and down right in front of the Kremlin, in Moscow, waving a flag that says ‘Reagan is an asshole, a Nazi, and a threat to World Peace!’ and NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO ME, EITHER!”