The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Kunt 4 Life]

People are retarded

[Trev]

People are retarded

Could probably lock the thread on that note

[Giggles]

we should be allowed to shoot peadophiles and have the death penalty without anyone moaning.

Shootings and death penalties for paedophiles AND rapists 

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

People are retarded

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'd say a few of ye have heard of this Riyadh Comedy Festival a disappointing number of comedians are signed up to play. Reveals some interesting things about people. Bill Burr accepted, Shane Gillis refused, for example. Anyway, this latest development fits with this thread:

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can't say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.

https://www.avclub.com/riyadh-comedy-festival-atsuko-okatsuka-zach-woods

[open face surgery]

Tim Dillon said some are getting 1.6m for a single show. Although, in a spotifyism, the ones making that money are the ones that don't need it.

I watch all the SA funded boxing so can't really decide that this is out of order but comedians are a lot more chatty than boxers so seems more hypocritical.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Several self-styled champions of freedom of expression taking money off one of the world's worst regimes for freedom of expression and on proviso that they stifle their own freedom of expression during the event. In that sense, it just is more hypocritical, no "seems" about it. Unfortunately we live in a world where lots of things we enjoy have been taken over by cocks, in one way or another, but this one really does appear to boil down to easily avoidable hypocritical individual choices.

[open face surgery]

Ah ya, they all have their price. The world is fucked but I don't need moral guidance from entertainment.
Delighted that Gillis refused it all the same    and I'll continue to listen to Normand, Morril and Santino.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I don't know Santino at all. Just went to look him up and one of the top results is a story from two weeks ago of him giving out about Disney cutting a joke of his...

He said the experience highlights why many comedians are turning to podcasts and independent platforms instead of traditional outlets.

"That's why we love the podcast world and why we've kind of gone away from traditional forms of media. We got sick of being told, 'You're not supposed to say that.'"

  

[open face surgery]

A deep dive in a puddle

Does a podcast with Bobby Lee who is a fucking melt but does a solo one called Whiskey Ginger that I'm partial to.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons. He said he had been offered "a large sum of money" — $375,000 for one performance — and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to "get over it," adding, "So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way."

But in an episode of the Tim Dillon Podcast last week, the comedian announced he'd been removed from the lineup for the comments he made about the country's record on slavery.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5555462/saudi-comedy-festival-chappelle-hart-maron

It's political correctness gone mad!  

[open face surgery]

My morality can def be bought for that price but I'm not a millionaire.

What are we calling this one? Comedy washing?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Dunno. I think, more than anything, it reveals just to what extent the whole "cancel culture" schtick they moaned about and helped amplify in the "culture war" was literally a "bit" for most of the heads supposedly persecuted by it. That cancel culture dollar was a good dollar.

[pete]

Naively disappointed about bill burr going.

Never read about your heroes online, as the saying goes.

[open face surgery]

He seems to be the one that everyone is most shocked/disappointed about.