As comedians from Bill Burr to Kevin Hart were slammed for performing at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival, Dave Chappelle said the Middle Eastern nation is actually more suitable for stand-up ...
"Real Time" host Bill Maher called out comedian Dave Chappelle Friday for downplaying free speech in America during his performance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia last week. "Dave ...
The Riyadh Comedy Festival in the capital of Saudi Arabia began on Friday, with top comedians including Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Louis C.K., Pete Davidson, Jo Koy, and Jimmy ...
Dave Chappelle used The Riyadh Comedy Festival stage to ironically highlight limits on US free speech, referencing political backlash and recent controversies in America. On stage, Chappelle said, ...
While headlining Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival on Saturday (via The New York Times), comedy giant Dave Chappelle deliberated over the do’s and don’ts of free speech in America, deeming it ...
“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America,” Dave Chappelle told an audience in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Chappelle was in the kingdom as part of the Riyadh Comedy Festival. His decision — and ...
Dave Chappelle poked fun at the ongoing drama surrounding the supposed censorship of American’s right to freedom of speech during his set at Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia, joking that it’s ...
"It’s easier to talk here than it is in America," the comedian told an audience at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in ...
American comics used Saudi Arabia’s first global comedy festival to skewer a debate raging at home. Critics said the event was part of Saudi efforts to draw attention away from a political crackdown.
In a blog post on his official site, Cross openly declared he was “disgusted, and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing. That people I admire, with unarguable talent, would condone this ...
Saudi Arabia is not known as a center for comedy. But through Oct. 9, the country's capital, Riyadh, is hosting dozens of A-list comedians — many of them American — at the first ever Riyadh Comedy ...