Marc Maron and Shane Gillis Slam Riyadh Comedy Festival as Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson Set to Perform in Saudi Arabia: ‘From the Folks That Brought You 9/11’

https://variety.com/2025/politics/global/marc-maron-human-rights-riyadh-comedy-festival-1236530044/

33 comments

  2. Burr is the one I can’t understand. I really don’t know what his thinking is on this one.

  3. The rest of these losers don’t surprise me but I’m a little disappointed in Bill Burr.

  4. Bill Burr is a let down. The rest make sense to me; nothing surprising there.

  7. Michelle Wolf turned it down, but she did say it was a LOT of money. 

  10. From the people that killed Pete’s dad, let’s have a round of applause for Pete Davidson

  12. A comedic stand up in Saudi Arabia sounds kinda boring tbh… you cannot make jokes about the government, religion or sex/dating. Are Saudis self deprecating? They all seem deadly serious to me.

  13. I’m amused that no one in the comments seems to be surprised that Kevin Hart is involved.

  14. Common Shane W. Guy consistently beats the allegations lol

  16. Pete Davidson has always been a massively over rated comedian.

  17. Bill “how bigs your yacht gotta be” Burr is such a wild disappointment

  20. Pete Davidson’s father was a NY fire fighter who died on 9/11. Tattoo removal ain’t cheap, but that’s still pretty fucked up.

  21. disappointed to see Jeffries doing this as well. None of these guys need to money. why on earth would they torch their reputations and goodwill? just for money?

  22. Kevin Hart has been a sellout for many years now and Pete Davidson is an attention whore so those two douchebags don’t surprise me but Bill Burr is a huge disappointment.

    I wonder if Pete Davidson gets that he’s the most hypocritical of them all considering his whole “my dad died in 9/11” thing

  24. Shane saying they offered to double his pay and he still said is crazy. I can’t even imagine what they are all being paid.

  26. Gillis and soder get nothing but the most respect in this situation. It’s a bad move by a lot of otherwise great comedians involved 

  27. Bill Burr is such a sellout lmao. I can’t believe that guy preaches about morals.

  28. The world has never needed George Carlin more then today !

  29. Chappelle talks big about Trans but is perfectly fine taking blood money from the Saudis. Sounds right

  30. I understand wanting all of that money, I’m not insane, but is there a line? Putin rolls up with 20 million in a briefcase and asks them to perform at the Kremlin, do they do it? Kim Jong Un offers 50 million to perform at a concentration camp in North Korea, do they do it?

    Surely there’s a line, I’m just wondering where it is, because fuck the Saudis, and everything they do, and everything they stand for.

  31. Pete Davidson yucking it up for the guys that funded his father’s murder is WILD

  32. What exactly is the issue with comedians doing comedy in Saudi Arabia? Do the thousand people in the comments also not buy products from China, not deal with companies that have financial backing from the Middle East, and not pay taxes in the U.S.?

  33. I had heard of whitewashing. I have even heard of sportswashing. Comedywashing is new to admittedly me though.

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