“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 that of other comics — has become controversial , given Saudi role in 9/11 and the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as well as other human rights abuses and anti LGBTQ+ policies.

“I mean, how do you even promote that? ‘From the folks that brought you 9/11. Two weeks of laughter in the desert, don’t miss it!'” an astounded Marc Maron said in a video from a recent stand-up bit. “I mean, the same guy that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a fucking suitcase. But don’t let that stop the yucks, it’s gonna b

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