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Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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The state of comedy is so sad.
agreed, most of them became right wing, or far right.
They are chasing money for sure, but that doesn't make their jokes right wing.
I'd like to hear some far right jokes because I bet they aren't funny. Any examples?
If you ever heard real right wing comedy, it makes sense that normal comedians try to tap into that well.
Why does that make sense in your mind?
The alt-right are easily amused
So they would sell out just like that and suddenly promote an extreme ideology while alienating most of their potential audience?
You mean the thing that's currently happening?
Where are those comedians? are they in the room with us right now?
The comedians Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others decided that alienating their fan base by accepting an egregious amount of money from the conservative monarchy of Saudi Arabia may not be in the room with us right now, probably because he's on the other side of the Atlantic.
IDK under what rock you've been living to not see that Bill Burr is actually speaking out a lot more than most against these fascists or that Chapell has been a right-wing douche since forever.
So you have nothing
Right, and he seems to be willing to throw away the audience he built for "speaking out" in favor of a check from the crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. I won't assume what is and isn't genuine from Dave Chappelle but to pretend like his bigoted takes aren't a recent shift is wild. All that being said I have no stake in this argument, I was a fan and all I'm saying is that I am not surprised. Just disappointed.
The US government goes on their knees for a check from the clown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
Maybe worry about that now.
And you were OK with the trans jokes and other BS he did before? nice.
What makes you think that I'm not extremely critical of the US government? Not much I can do there other than throw myself in front of an ice agent abducting members of my community. I'm not sure what trans jokes you're talking about from his variety sketch show days, but if I didn't cash those jokes then yeah I guess that is on me.
I think you need to clarify... Is it because right wing comedy is just so good that they want to participate, or that right wing comedy is so terrible it's a ripe opportunity to be a gigantic fish in a small crappy pond?
Sence is one thing. Right/correct/true is another. The difference is important.
you should really elaborate more, the only people/comedians that go fore "anti-woke" jokes are right wingers themselves, or they were closeted right wingers. you might be confused by comedians that has a veneer of "punching Up).