Bill Burr took to his Monday Morning Podcast this week to talk about his performance at Riyadh Comedy Festival in the capital of Saudi Arabia. His latest episode arrived amid backlash from his fellow comedians for participating in an event that Human Rights Watch said is being used to deflect attention from the country’s “brutal repression of free speech.”

Burr said that while he was initially “fucking nervous,” he was soon astonished by the similarities to Western culture. “I think I’m going to land and everybody’s going to be screaming, ‘Death to America’, and they’re going to have like fucking machetes and want to like chop my head off, right?” Burr said. “Because this is what I’ve been fed about that part of the world.” However, after landing, Burr said he was surprised by both

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