Marc Maron Shades Comedians Attending the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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In June, journalist Turki bin Abdulaziz al-Jasser was executed in Saudi Arabia after seven years of detention and torture for … anonymous tweets critical of the Saudi royal family. I don’t mention this as a warning about where the United States is headed (god forbid), but to remind folks that the Saudi royal family is … not great. Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, of course, also ordered The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination, but don’t let rampant human rights abuses stop several of America’s biggest comedians from taking gigantic paychecks to help whitewash the country’ reputation by appearing at the two-week Riyadh Comedy Festival beginning this weekend.

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