On his late-night talk show Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel pressed Aziz Ansari for performing at the controversial, state-sponsored Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

“This is something that’s become a big part of the news because people, a lot of comedians especially, are very upset, because the people who paid the comedians to come to this are not good people. It’s a pretty brutal regime. They’ve done a lot of horrible, horrible things,” Kimmel said of the Islamic regime led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

“People are questioning why you would go over there and take their money to perform in front of these people,” Kimmel added. “I’m curious as to why you decided to do that.”

Ansari said the decision to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival was “something I put a lot of t

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