It Could Happen Here - The Riyadh Comedy Festival

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413 https:/.../www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:46 the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which occurs from September 26th to October 9th. It's the highlight of my year each year. Yep. Happy to say, all of Cool Zone will be there, Forming in Riyadh, immediately getting arrested, it's going to be really good, very much excited. Like all of your comedy favorites, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, we will be getting paid hundreds of thousands or over a million dollars to pretend that the Saudi regime does not execute dissidents, reporters, civil rights activists, whoever, and doesn't run a torture prison. Yeah. So that's what's happening this week. There's been a big backlash against a bunch of very prominent comedians. Louis C.K. It's like a mix of guys. Louis C.K. is fallen. Theo Vaugh. No, his first radio. Okay. Not surprised. David Chappelle. I'm surprised that old David Chappelle would do this, but I'm not surprised that current David Chappelle would do this. Billber is disappointing. That hurts. That one hurts. Mo Amr, who is a Palestinian-American comedian who lives in Houston, has also agreed to go to. to Riyadh and perform. Not great. Comrade Shane Gillis declined the offer. Yeah. Shane Gillis said
Starting point is 00:04:05 yes and then said no. Let's be real fucking clear on what Shane Gillis did. Okay. I believe he's the one that said yes and then said no. You get a variety of responses from people who were invited to this fucking thing. And I'll make it clear kind of where my moral line stands. I don't actually believe it's inherently wrong to perform inside the bounds of any country. It kind of depends on what you're doing and how you do it. And this is the wrong way to do it because these are not just people. If someone who just shown up at a nightclub in Saudi Arabia to do a stand-up set, I don't particularly care about that, even though there are Les Magist laws. Like, I wouldn't care if someone did a stand-up comedy set that couldn't make fun of the King of Thailand, right? Which
Starting point is 00:04:46 is a crime in Thailand. Yeah. You know, people perform in parts of the world that have different or bad laws. The U.S. has bad laws. We do bad things. I don't think it's inherently evil to just perform at a random club there, which is not what the people who are performing at the Riyadh comedy festival are doing. This whole convention is being put on by a guy named Turkey al-Shake. Turkey is the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, which is a Saudi government department. He grew up with Mohammed bin Salman playing League of Legends, and his kind of, like, key to bin Salman's plan to, like, make Saudi Arabia cool to, like, bring it into the global entertainment and like social network without modernizing its laws or allowing people to, you know,
Starting point is 00:05:28 make fun of Muhammad bin Salman or his friends for an idea of the kind of dude who hired Bill Burr and all of these other guys and paid them so much money. There is an entire wing of the Al-Hiair prison called the Tutu wing, which references Al-Shake's nickname Tutu, where prisoners that he specifically pointed out, often people who made fun of him or made jokes that he did not appreciate are put and tortured. This guy has an entire torture prison named after him. That is who's writing checks to fucking Pete Davidson, whose dad died in 9-11. It's fucking shocking.
Starting point is 00:06:03 The fact that Pete Davidson is at this thing. And he's been, like, questioned about it. And his answer basically, I'll say this for Pete, was basically like, yeah, but there's a lot of money, right? And I'm separating in my head to a degree. I think it's bad to take money from the Saudi government to, do something like this that is being used to whitewash their human rights record to make them look like a cool part of global society, even as they this week executed another journalist. I think that's bad.
Starting point is 00:06:32 I think it's worse if you're someone who stood for something. This doesn't change my opinion about Theo Vaughn, who sucks. And it's like, yeah, he'll take money from Saudi Arabia. He's a huge asshole. I'm just, I'm not surprised, right? And there's some other guys in this that I'm not necessarily, like, shocked about. Did you see Theo Von's beef with ice this week? Oh, does Theo Vaughan have beef with ice this week?
Starting point is 00:06:55 Yeah, they use video of him without his consent in one of their marketing videos. Yeah, great. So Jim Jeffries on August went on Theo Vaughan's podcast to talk about agreeing to do this show. And he said, one reporter was killed by the government, unfortunate, but not a fucking hill that I'm going to die on. Jesus. And argued that freedom of speech machines like himself would do good by like, you know, making jokes in Saudi Arabia, and key in the men on the freedom of speech thing. Basically, it'll be a net positive for freedom if I go speak at this thing.
Starting point is 00:07:28 And in the funniest possible follow-up, he was removed from the festival lineup because he acknowledged that they killed a reporter. And that's not okay at all to Saudi Arabia. You can't even do that on your own fucking podcast or fucking Theo Vaughn's goddamn podcast. I want to play a video clip of Tim Dillon because Tim Dillon is another guy who agreed to show up and perform at this. this fucking nightmare event. And Dylan is why we know kind of how much money is on the table at this thing,
Starting point is 00:07:57 because he has said that he was paid $375,000. Oh, my God. He was offered $375,000 for one performance to be there. He said that kind of the lowest number people were being offered was about $150,000, and the most, like, highly paid people were being offered up to $1.6 million. So, I mean, it's possible some people were getting more than that. But I'm guessing that's closer to, like, where the Bill Burrs and the Dave Chappelle's are getting, right, like in the $1.6 million. So these guys were offered an insane amount of money.
Starting point is 00:08:32 And Tim Dillon went on and, like, talked about this on a podcast, talked about, like, why he agreed to do it and defended. And it's very funny. He, like, brought up, like, slavery in Saudi Arabia, because Saudi Arabia has slaves as a way to, like, to, like, to, segue into a defense of why it's fine for him to do this. And this is just one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Well, they have slaves. Then they kill every. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Get over it. Get over it. So what? So what? They have slaves. So what? My friend, I, not a friend. Somebody I don't even know.
Starting point is 00:09:18 I bumped into them in Tribeca. and he goes, I would never do that because I don't want to interact with slaves. I'm like, well, why not? They'd be deferential, right? I mean, I imagine the slaves in those countries are good at what they do. Okay, so that's the clip I just wanted to have.
Starting point is 00:09:41 That's one of the most off-putting things have ever seen. And it got him fired from the show. He's good. Fending them. He's big, like, slavery's not so bad, and he still got fired? That's the level of censorship. That's like, yeah.
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Starting point is 00:14:02 Listen to the Chinatown Stang on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Okay, we're back. Robert. The degree to which everyone involved in this has just nuked whatever credibility they had is shocking. I want to read you a quote from Bill Burr in January of 2010. This is from a set he did at the time. This is him talking about Beyonce.
Starting point is 00:14:34 She's out there singing about girl power, telling you to put a ring on it, all that crap. And then what she does, she takes a million bucks to go sing at some private party for Gaddafi's kid. Omar Gaddafi, you know, the guy who's been blowing stuff up and running a dictatorship forever? Like, what the hell? You're going to jet off to St. Bart. shake your ass for some terrorist dictator's family, pock in a million, and then go back to preaching about empowerment.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Come on, man, that's the hypocrisy of this whole thing. These celebrities, they'll take any gig if the check's big enough. It's like, oh, I'm all about the people until some crazy dictator waves a stack of cash. And then it's, where's my private jet? It's ridiculous. This sucks.
Starting point is 00:15:04 Yes, Bill? It is. This sucks to be a Bill bar defender for years now. I love Bill. I love him. The first actual state on Bill Bear's legacy, which is for someone will get that out of us. Quite a remarkable fucking stain.
Starting point is 00:15:18 All comedians are evil. It's just, it's that easy. He addressed, it's, you know, part of it is that. And if all, unfortunately, I kind of think the response of some of the scumbags in comedy has been fair with it's like, man, it was too much money. It was just a shit lot of money. Like, I'll do fucked up shit for a crazy amount of money. And it's like, that's bad, but at least you're honest. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:37 Bill's response to this was like, it was great to experience that part of the world. It would be part of the first comedy festival over there in Saudi Arabia. The Royals left the show. everyone one was happy. The people that were doing the festival were thrilled. The comedians that I've been talking to are saying, dude, you can feel that the audience wanted it. They wanted to see real stand-up comedy. It was a mind-blowing experience. Definitely top three experiences I've had. I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things. Now, he did talk a little bit about the rules that they had to abide by and said that when they were first handing around contracts, he pushed back and was like, or people pushed back or like comedians did and were like, you can't have all these restrictions. and that they whittled them down to just a couple of things, which Bill sums up as don't make fun of royals and religion, right? Now, as pointed out by the fact that Tim Dillon got canceled for talking positively about slavery in the kingdom,
Starting point is 00:16:27 there were more restrictions than that. I do want to read from a Hollywood reporter article talking about like Bill's response to this because it gets even worse than what I've read already. Bill first described going to the island country of Bahrain, which is more socially liberal than Saudi Arabia, where a customs agent immediately clocked his anxiety about doing stand-up in the region
Starting point is 00:16:44 and gave him grief about it. When I was landing in Bahrain, like, I'm fucking nervous, right? And then the agent says, you tell jokes about the Middle East. You think you're going to come over here and get beheaded, right? After a successful show in Bahrain, Burr was at a bar where he was watching interactions among locals and decided, I'm like, they're just like us. I don't speak the language, but I get it. When he flew to Saudi Arabia, Burr's nervousness crept back, but he was struck by the amount of local Western influence. You think everyone's going to be screaming death to America and they're going to have fucking machetes and want to chop my head off, right?
Starting point is 00:17:10 Because this is what I've been fed about that part of the world. I thought this place was going to be really tense. And I'm thinking, like, is that a Starbucks next to a Pizza Hut, next to a Burger King, next to McDonald's? They've got a fucking Chili. And yes, man, they have stores in the Middle East. You can buy food. Also, that specific combination of countries, like, the Saudis,
Starting point is 00:17:29 the reason the current government of Bahrain is in power is because the Saudis rolled tanks across the border to crush the uprisings there in 2011. Like, hideous. There's so much that's fucked up just being like, well, to prepare for abiding by the laws of the fucking royal family of Saudi Arabia. I went to Bahrain. Like, they're not the same place. No.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Yeah, I went to check out some brown Muslim people. Turns out their people. Like, that seems to be the gist of what he's saying it. And they like pizza too. Fuck me. You could go to, again, like Iraq and perform in fucking... Yeah, you could go to Arbil and it's nice. It's nice and you're not going to be performing at the behest of the fucked up government, right?
Starting point is 00:18:12 You'll just be performing in a country with a fucked up government. government, and there is a difference, right? I'm not angry at the idea that some rando might like perform at a nightclub in Saudi Arabia. The problem is that you're performing at the behest of the Saudi government, at the behest of the regime. Yeah, that's a different thing. I do think there's an argument for like, well, people in countries with fucked up governments deserve to laugh. That doesn't mean you have to take the money from their fucked up government and say nice things about their fucked up government. Like Kevin Hart just did, because Kevin Hart was also a part of this show, and he posted a video on TikTok talking about how fucking awesome Saudi
Starting point is 00:18:47 Royal Turkey Al-Shake is, and Turkey Al-Shake has now been sharing that video on all of his social media accounts. Like, you're holding water for people, for a guy, he was a wing in a torture prison named after him. That crosses a line for me, you know? Yeah. When we're talking about entertainment, we're talking about being ad support, all this stuff, there's compromises that everyone makes in this business.
Starting point is 00:19:11 There's compromises in what company you fucking work with, right? Yeah. Like, if you're talking about, you know, make it a TV show for Amazon's TV division or Disney's, you know, fucking streaming division, right? Well, there's a degree of moral compromise there. And I think depending on what you're doing and whatnot can be justified by the fact that, number one, like, that's just the way television works. There's no working with anyone completely clean in a company that has the ability to fund,
Starting point is 00:19:37 you know, a production like that. But taking money directly from the hands of the guy with the torture prison, I think that crosses a line. I think that crosses the line for a free speech activist. It should have crossed a line for Pete Davidson, whose dad died in 9-11, but apparently not. That is a wild one. That's the craziest one to me, that Pete Davidson went over to Saudi Arabia. Oh, man. Are you got to wonder, it's his mom still on the scene?
Starting point is 00:20:06 Oh, man, she's probably getting a lot of money if she is, so it's fine. fuck me. It's fine. I don't know. Like, how much, and it is one of those things. I get the people who are like, okay, but, you know, the U.S. is fucked up too. And it is. And so if somebody is getting paid directly by the Trump regime to perform at the White House, I'd say pretty fucked up. But like, that doesn't mean it's immoral to perform at like a nightclub in fucking Chicago, you know? Yeah, and none of us are going to Guantanamo Bay to like entertain the fucking prison guards, right? Like, yeah. Well, Hopefully, none of us will be going to Guantanamo Bay for any reason,
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Starting point is 00:22:31 Not just that, it seems as if state-controlled media in Russia is being utilised to purposely cover, confuse and contradict the reporting that gets put out. As you can probably imagine, season two gets very weird. Get ready because episode one drops on October 8th. Listen to Sad Oligarch on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you want to hear the secrets of serial killers, psychopaths, pedophiles, robbers? They are sitting there waiting for the vulnerable thing.
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Starting point is 00:24:41 Once I saw the gun, I tried to take his hand, and I saw the flash of light. Listen to the Chinatown Sting on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts. We're back. I want to talk about this from the Saudi perspective because they have been doing really for the last half a decade of Fallout PR Blitz, right? We've seen this in WWE. We've seen this with a whole bunch of professional sports stuff. Like most of the e-sports is run out of the ESports World Cup in Saudi Arabia now. Like the Saudi sovereign wealth fund just helped Jared Kushner buy EA, right?
Starting point is 00:25:23 Just like one of the largest video game companies in the world, right? They've been, you know, they've been doing this sort of whole sports washing strategy of using these things to sort of normalize the regime. And I think the actual genius of this. right, was not that you can buy legitimacy with like sports and with comedians. The genius of it was that they were able to control the backlash, because they ensured the backlash to it would be done by sports journalists and entertainment journalists who don't know anything about the Saudis, and thus assumed that the Saudis were attempting to rightwash their, you know, horrific domestic human rights record. And they were to some extent, but even
Starting point is 00:26:02 focusing on the Saudi's domestic human rights record is a victory for the Saudis because it means that nobody's talking about the stuff people were talking about last decade when they talked about the Saudis, which was things like, for example, the Sudanese child soldiers that they were deploying in their war in Yemen. These Sudanese child soldiers were drawn from their connections bolstered by the UAE to the Sudanese rapid support forces, a group that is almost entirely composed of the militias who did the genocide in Darfur. So these are the ground troops that they're deploying in Yemen are Sudanese child soldiers drawn from the people who did the genocide in Darfur in 2018, which was not that long
Starting point is 00:26:38 ago. Like, I remember 2018. So do you, statistically. If you're listening to this show, they carried out an airstrike on a school bus that killed 26 children. Right. No one is talking about the airstrikes on funerals that they absolutely love to do. Like, for example, there was a huge one in 2016
Starting point is 00:26:54 where they killed 140 people in one air strike, after which the area was described by a rescue worker as a, quote, lake of blood. And this has been the really successful thing about the Saudi specifically targeting sports, specifically targeting entertainment, is that the people covering this do not know anything about Saudi Arabia, right?
Starting point is 00:27:13 And this is also partially what was going on, Bill Burr, because they're just racists. Or their attempt could do a backlash, and they're trying to do a backlash with things like, okay, they killed a journalist, which is really bad, right? But, like, Jamal Khashoggi was one guy out of thousands and thousands and thousands of people that they were killing and are continuing to kill to this day in Yemen, right? And this is one of the reasons people have been able to get away with this, right? Is that no one has been walking up to them and going, what do you think about the Sudanese child soldiers? Because nobody knows about any of that.
Starting point is 00:27:44 And this is one of the things that I want to just say at the end of this, which is I know for a fact that journalists and editors listen to this show. And please, for the love of God, find someone who knows literally anything about the Saudis war in Yemen and have them write this piece on sports washing for you. Literally anyone. This is what makes me insane about all this coverage is that. Like, if you even a little bit paid attention to what they were doing in the 2010s and what they're continuing to do now in Yemen, you know about so many. I'm not even, I'm not even talking about the starvation genocide here. There are so many things that they did. You know, and like one of the common defenses is like, oh, like, you know, like we live in the U.S. is a fucked up country, right? Like, who cares about authoritarianism? It's like, I don't know. It's harder to make that argument when it's about Sudanese child soldiers. Well, it's just, again, we're not pissed because some guy performed at a nightclub in Riyadh. It's that you're taking money from the government to whitewash the government. No, it's because they took money for the government.
Starting point is 00:28:45 All of these things, all of these, all of like WWE, like all of these sports events, these are funded directly by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which is the wealth fund of the Saudi government, the people who were dropping bombs on school buses and sending child soldiers to fight their war in Yemen. Yeah, there has been some good reporting on sports washing, I would say. Like Ian Trello's done some excellent stuff. The Guardian has a good article on this where they really coalesate some of like the very worst responses written by Seth Simon. So I like that. This does seem to be blowing up Hollywood Reporter's piece was pretty good too. Hollywood Reporter, my friend was editor of that publication for years and they have consistently
Starting point is 00:29:23 done some stuff that you wouldn't expect looking at the title of publication. Yeah, I'm not going to be silly enough to be like, I think this is going to cost any of these people their career, because it's, I don't think it is. But it does seem to be causing them some embarrassment. Uh, so I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I hope they get called out on it and shamed. Like, it's, yeah, it's a pretty shameful thing to do. It's a shameful thing to do. It's a bummer. I wish people had not made these choices because, man, it's depressing. Yeah. Well, luckily, I have some news to lift our moods after this depressing episode. I am pleased to report that Cool Zone Media will be headlining at Victor Orban's new comedy festival
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