True Patriot Love - October 02, 2025


Riyadh Comedy Festival： Comedy vs Conscience


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The whole world deserves to laugh. If the whole world could just laugh, right? Well, unless you're performing for laughs at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, that is. Today we re talking about that, not just in the comedy world, but in the entertainment world, and the world of global politics. We re joined by two of the funnier people I know, Nick Delinsky, producer and writer at TPL, and of course, our very own correspondent, Brady Wedham.

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00:00:00.000 The whole world deserves to laugh.
00:00:02.100 If the whole world could just laugh, right?
00:00:05.140 Unless you're performing for laughs at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
00:00:09.680 Today we're talking about that.
00:00:11.180 It's a big topic, not just in the comedy world,
00:00:13.760 but in the entertainment world and the world of global politics suddenly.
00:00:17.840 We're talking about that today on The Daily Cancel.
00:00:26.580 Okay, joining me today for this topic,
00:00:28.540 two of the funnier people I know,
00:00:31.620 Nick Delinsky, producer here and writer at TPL,
00:00:35.860 and of course our very own correspondent and executive producer, Brady Wedham.
00:00:40.340 Guys, thanks for joining me.
00:00:41.680 Now, I have to position you as experts because you kind of are.
00:00:47.120 In fact, all of us are huge fans of comedy,
00:00:49.440 but this one has really caused waves, man.
00:00:53.660 It's a desert storm of controversy.
00:00:59.540 Well, Mike, thank you for having me on The Daily Canceled.
00:01:02.260 I am very glad to be here.
00:01:05.040 I don't know if this is a group of people who have sold their souls
00:01:10.100 or if they're just doing it for the paycheck
00:01:12.500 because they got to, you know, pay the bills.
00:01:14.380 But there has been a lot of controversy in the past couple of weeks
00:01:17.580 talking about the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
00:01:19.660 You may know some of these names.
00:01:20.940 Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Andrew Schultz, Aziz Ansari,
00:01:24.040 Bill Burr, Chris DiStefano,
00:01:27.280 Chris Tucker for a second there.
00:01:28.740 I was like, was that Tucker Carlson?
00:01:31.820 I mean, anyway, Hannibal Buress, big deal.
00:01:34.660 Jimmy Carr, Joe Coy, Louis CK, Mark Norman,
00:01:37.340 big names, big names, Pete Davidson.
00:01:40.360 I think he's a comedian still.
00:01:41.980 Sebastian Maniscalco.
00:01:44.160 These are all very big names in the comedy world, Nick.
00:01:47.000 Yeah, for sure, for sure.
00:01:48.620 And, I mean, I think, you know,
00:01:51.540 my opinion has already been said enough,
00:01:53.220 so I'll spare it just to think, like,
00:01:54.560 if these people are, you know,
00:01:56.780 supposed to be, you know,
00:01:58.980 arbiters of free speech and things like this,
00:02:00.800 why are they, you know,
00:02:02.440 being paid by such an oppressive government, you know?
00:02:05.380 But to me...
00:02:06.380 Wait, wait, wait.
00:02:06.820 Give me that one again, but slow down.
00:02:08.300 I want to understand the logic of this one.
00:02:10.140 If these people are so for free speech,
00:02:11.960 why are they taking money from people
00:02:13.520 that hamper free speech so much?
00:02:15.720 Yeah, they just killed a journalist.
00:02:17.780 Right.
00:02:19.180 And there's Jamal Khashoggi.
00:02:21.340 That was another case.
00:02:23.240 And so, yeah, again, this is not a new opinion,
00:02:26.520 but it's sort of, it's just, to me,
00:02:29.200 it's another example of, you know,
00:02:30.900 what I realize is that, you know,
00:02:34.280 funny doesn't exactly equal being right about everything.
00:02:38.600 Yeah.
00:02:39.220 Yep.
00:02:39.760 Yeah.
00:02:40.400 I think people make this conflation
00:02:43.020 that just because you laugh at something,
00:02:44.260 I have, I know so many comedians
00:02:45.740 that I find hilarious,
00:02:47.360 but their politics just make me,
00:02:50.640 just make me gross. 0.84
00:02:51.820 So, so what do you think?
00:02:53.300 Do you, do you avoid them or do you?
00:02:55.700 I've just, you know, I, I used to avoid them
00:02:57.580 and now I think like, get, they're not,
00:02:59.800 you know, they're, I don't need to take their opinion.
00:03:02.780 I don't think people should,
00:03:03.720 should be getting their opinions from, from comedians.
00:03:06.200 I don't.
00:03:06.780 No, I think so too.
00:03:07.540 I mean, like, when did we ever think Rodney Dangerfield
00:03:09.820 was going to give us anything meaningful
00:03:11.400 or Sam Kinison or Richard Pryor?
00:03:15.400 There's a new era of righteousness
00:03:17.240 in every element of fame.
00:03:19.180 Well, I think it started with George Carlin, right?
00:03:22.040 When George Carlin,
00:03:22.820 because when George first started,
00:03:24.440 and people that are smarter than I can tell you
00:03:26.760 way more information than I can on George Carlin.
00:03:28.800 I'm a big fan of George Carlin,
00:03:29.880 but not a historian on him.
00:03:31.180 But I know that his comedy style
00:03:32.540 when he first started
00:03:33.440 is a lot different than when it ended.
00:03:35.500 Yeah.
00:03:35.680 And he was very political in his stance, right?
00:03:40.300 I, I don't know if I agree with that.
00:03:43.600 I think that if a human being is put on a stage
00:03:47.280 and has a microphone
00:03:47.980 and he's there to make people laugh
00:03:49.300 and he says something prolific
00:03:50.460 or something that you can take away from it
00:03:51.980 and apply it to your life
00:03:53.020 to either benefit your life
00:03:55.220 or just to look at something
00:03:56.280 from a different perspective,
00:03:57.220 I think that happens.
00:03:58.540 And that could happen through not only jokes,
00:04:00.080 but it could happen through horror stories too, right?
00:04:02.660 Like, I think there's things to learn
00:04:04.720 from anybody that's in a position
00:04:06.160 where they seem like they're stable.
00:04:08.460 Now, if we're talking about, you know,
00:04:10.400 Bobby Lee, for instance,
00:04:11.480 and this is no shame on Bobby Lee,
00:04:13.140 but I don't care what Bobby Lee's political opinion is. 0.99
00:04:17.020 I couldn't give a shit. 0.99
00:04:18.460 But Russell Peters, I might. 0.99
00:04:20.500 Yeah.
00:04:21.380 Right?
00:04:21.760 Like, I might be able to listen to Russell talk about...
00:04:24.120 Dave Chappelle seems to be a bit of an orator now
00:04:26.300 alongside being a comedian.
00:04:29.360 Yeah, he got political when his comeback.
00:04:32.220 Very much so.
00:04:32.920 He wasn't political before.
00:04:34.380 No.
00:04:34.640 Not really. 0.99
00:04:35.140 He was pooping dick jokes. 0.99
00:04:36.620 Yeah. 0.99
00:04:37.000 Yeah, pretty much.
00:04:37.740 It's interesting you brought up Russell Peters
00:04:39.860 because even before all this,
00:04:41.860 he had a whole bit in his act
00:04:44.080 talking about performing for Saudis.
00:04:46.400 And in the story,
00:04:49.060 he talks about talking to Osama bin Laden's brother
00:04:51.080 over the phone.
00:04:52.300 I vaguely remember that.
00:04:53.540 Yeah.
00:04:53.840 Yeah.
00:04:54.540 To get the booking done,
00:04:55.960 he was the paying customer.
00:04:58.260 Yeah.
00:04:58.800 Yeah, yeah.
00:04:59.560 I'm sure he made boatloads of cash.
00:05:01.440 He wouldn't be there.
00:05:02.060 Well, some of the people on this list
00:05:03.380 are definitely in the $10 million list.
00:05:05.060 I'm guessing.
00:05:06.800 Yeah.
00:05:07.340 You know, Kevin Hart isn't doing this
00:05:09.780 and selling his name potentially.
00:05:12.220 Now, honestly.
00:05:13.740 Kevin Hart doesn't need any more money.
00:05:15.980 Well, then why is he doing this?
00:05:17.780 Well, he would do...
00:05:19.900 He'll do anything.
00:05:21.160 He would do a show for, you know, Al-Qaeda.
00:05:24.060 You know, he does anything.
00:05:25.780 He doesn't care.
00:05:26.120 Yeah.
00:05:26.920 Well, I think that that's the question then.
00:05:29.140 Is this a group of sellouts?
00:05:30.800 Is this people who just don't care at all?
00:05:33.500 I think when you're looking at the Tom Seguras of the world
00:05:35.640 who have already came out since COVID
00:05:37.720 and said, you know,
00:05:38.720 I don't do my podcast to relate to the poors. 1.00
00:05:43.000 I do my podcast so I can buy nice cars and nice things.
00:05:46.580 And you guys can all sit there and admire it
00:05:48.360 and boo-hoo for you. 0.98
00:05:50.360 So...
00:05:50.560 I guess.
00:05:51.440 So Tom Seguras, I understand,
00:05:53.400 taking the paycheck
00:05:54.000 because they're openly honest about that.
00:05:55.620 And respectfully,
00:05:56.660 you've got to respect anybody
00:05:57.600 who's going to be open and honest,
00:05:58.940 I guess, if that's their opinion.
00:06:00.160 I've got to agree with them.
00:06:01.260 But things like Jimmy Carr surprised me.
00:06:04.640 Yeah, a couple of names on here
00:06:05.780 actually did surprise me.
00:06:06.700 Bill Burr was shocking to me.
00:06:08.140 I'm not surprised by Bill Burr.
00:06:09.380 Not after the past couple of years.
00:06:10.600 Really?
00:06:10.840 He seems to be Mr. All-American.
00:06:13.900 Come on, let's be...
00:06:15.040 I think if you bought into the shtick
00:06:16.160 of him hating billionaires
00:06:17.240 and listening to that
00:06:18.220 for that he's been spewing
00:06:19.200 for the past couple of years,
00:06:20.160 then maybe you would have, you know,
00:06:22.160 thought there was truth.
00:06:23.220 I can see Ray through it
00:06:24.880 because I was such a big fan of Bill.
00:06:27.300 Bill's the same guy that said
00:06:28.200 anybody who watches a Star Wars movie 0.98
00:06:29.760 is a loser 0.99
00:06:30.860 and needs to do something with their life. 0.99
00:06:32.580 And a couple of years later,
00:06:33.340 takes a massive paycheck
00:06:34.440 and has his own Star Wars action figure.
00:06:36.300 So I don't think
00:06:37.880 anything that he has ever said
00:06:40.500 or put out there
00:06:41.300 should be anything
00:06:41.880 that you hold your hat on with Bill.
00:06:43.640 So I'm not surprised with Bill.
00:06:44.800 Now, there's some quality comedians on here.
00:06:46.600 I mean, except for Joe Coy.
00:06:48.000 There's like some really good comedians
00:06:49.460 on this list.
00:06:50.940 How do you think they justify...
00:06:53.500 I'm just kidding.
00:06:54.140 Joe Coy is marginally funny.
00:06:56.460 What do you think the logic was in their mind
00:06:59.400 knowing that this...
00:07:00.920 Or do you think that these comedians
00:07:02.280 even had a single clue
00:07:04.200 that there would be blowback on this?
00:07:06.840 I mean, there could have been panic
00:07:08.220 in their minds of just like,
00:07:09.520 let's just get as much money as we can
00:07:11.600 before the economy implodes.
00:07:13.100 Yeah.
00:07:14.860 I also think possibly they didn't think
00:07:17.600 people would really know about this.
00:07:20.580 I mean, it's not a secret,
00:07:21.740 but at the same time,
00:07:23.140 it's a lot of things
00:07:23.880 just fly under the radar.
00:07:25.020 Well, once Tim Dillon got invited,
00:07:26.960 of course, the whole world
00:07:28.160 was going to know
00:07:28.840 that it was going on.
00:07:30.020 Can we talk about that for a second?
00:07:32.360 Comedian Tim Dillon,
00:07:33.380 if you didn't listen to his podcast,
00:07:35.360 you can go back.
00:07:36.000 By the way, I love Tim Dillon.
00:07:38.020 I can get 14, 18 minutes
00:07:41.080 into his podcast
00:07:42.100 and I have to take a break
00:07:43.700 because he's like the neighbor
00:07:45.580 yelling at you
00:07:46.620 about things you want to talk about.
00:07:48.540 If Wilson was drunk
00:07:49.640 on Home Improvement.
00:07:50.520 It was.
00:07:51.340 Exactly.
00:07:52.500 Anyway, he was like very forthcoming
00:07:54.480 that he went on and said
00:07:56.380 that he didn't care.
00:07:59.760 He was going to take the money
00:08:00.960 and all of it.
00:08:02.240 But it really quickly became satire,
00:08:04.600 I think, from Tim
00:08:05.540 as he said it out loud
00:08:07.060 and realized,
00:08:07.720 okay, well, these people,
00:08:08.800 you know, have a slave system historically. 0.62
00:08:11.120 They treat people badly.
00:08:12.720 I don't care.
00:08:13.540 I want the money, he said.
00:08:16.020 Well, I think, you know,
00:08:17.500 he made a couple of comments
00:08:18.580 that went a little too far
00:08:19.640 and next thing you know,
00:08:20.860 he was canceled anyway.
00:08:22.120 That's what I think the story
00:08:23.540 and the narrative
00:08:24.100 has been put out there.
00:08:25.020 This is what I think.
00:08:25.820 I think whoever booked this
00:08:27.500 and works for his excellency
00:08:29.040 went through a list
00:08:30.280 of the biggest numbers
00:08:31.200 and drawing comedians
00:08:32.380 and said, get them all.
00:08:33.480 Get as many as you can.
00:08:34.400 Whoever will take it.
00:08:35.240 Bring this huge comedy festival.
00:08:36.880 And then they get,
00:08:37.680 they get the list back
00:08:38.600 and one of them is Tim.
00:08:40.040 And then they hear a comment about,
00:08:41.820 what do you mean
00:08:42.120 that this comedian's talking
00:08:43.140 about this already,
00:08:43.880 about the deal?
00:08:44.860 And they look into him
00:08:45.820 and they were like,
00:08:46.380 this is the guy
00:08:47.820 that has a picture of him.
00:08:51.260 Don't say it.
00:08:51.940 We all saw the picture.
00:08:52.960 Look up Tim Dillon pictures.
00:08:54.680 Yeah.
00:08:55.300 Yeah.
00:08:55.900 Even, I'd re-add to it
00:08:57.280 and you'd probably
00:08:57.920 get a little closer,
00:08:58.800 but he was caught.
00:09:00.280 He was pretty,
00:09:01.160 pretty quickly.
00:09:02.540 People that they throw up.
00:09:03.500 The Riyadh Comedy Festival
00:09:03.860 threw up images of,
00:09:05.800 no, this is why
00:09:06.660 he's not coming on the show.
00:09:07.760 I'm pretty sure
00:09:08.120 they were only bringing him there
00:09:09.120 to throw him off the building
00:09:10.300 like they do everybody else 1.00
00:09:11.480 who is a homosexual 1.00
00:09:12.340 in Saudi Arabia. 0.96
00:09:13.760 He said that actually
00:09:14.980 on his show.
00:09:15.520 He goes,
00:09:15.660 now I'm suspicious.
00:09:16.800 This could be,
00:09:17.620 by the way,
00:09:17.960 a very clever lineup.
00:09:19.500 You know,
00:09:20.000 they'll come for the money
00:09:21.000 and then we can get rid
00:09:22.220 of all of them
00:09:23.200 at the same time.
00:09:24.760 I don't think it's that evil.
00:09:26.160 Pete Davidson.
00:09:27.640 Yeah.
00:09:28.120 Also,
00:09:28.700 there was all comedians
00:09:30.340 on this list
00:09:31.000 and then Pete Davidson.
00:09:32.760 That confused me.
00:09:33.800 Oh, and Whitney Cummings.
00:09:34.760 You missed that.
00:09:35.160 Oh, yeah, sorry.
00:09:35.860 No, so they must have
00:09:36.820 some other,
00:09:37.240 maybe they're doing wrestling
00:09:38.340 or something.
00:09:39.040 Both of their names.
00:09:39.560 Everything,
00:09:40.220 anybody that doesn't know
00:09:41.140 who Pete Davidson is,
00:09:42.160 he's a comedian.
00:09:43.220 I think he's still dating
00:09:44.480 Kim Kardashian,
00:09:46.000 Kanye's ex
00:09:46.620 or something like that.
00:09:47.280 Oh, I don't really know.
00:09:47.800 Anyway,
00:09:49.100 SNL alumni.
00:09:50.600 He's been in SNL forever.
00:09:51.760 Well, look at his story.
00:09:53.000 His story's pretty crazy.
00:09:54.240 There's no way
00:09:54.620 that he's done the math
00:09:55.460 on this, right?
00:09:55.720 His father
00:09:56.500 was in the very first
00:09:58.960 team of firemen
00:10:00.180 who arrived on the scene
00:10:01.820 9-11
00:10:03.640 at the World Trade Center
00:10:04.700 and ended up passing away
00:10:05.800 him and his entire firehouse.
00:10:07.680 Passed away
00:10:08.180 in that tragedy.
00:10:10.440 And some people,
00:10:12.080 majority of people,
00:10:12.900 think that some of that
00:10:14.000 was organized
00:10:14.900 by Saudi Arabia.
00:10:16.560 And 24 years later,
00:10:19.840 Pete is going over there
00:10:21.320 to take a paycheck
00:10:21.900 from the same group of people.
00:10:23.820 Allegedly.
00:10:24.520 Allegedly.
00:10:25.480 So,
00:10:26.600 where does that leave?
00:10:27.400 What's alleged?
00:10:29.100 Oh, right.
00:10:30.120 It's real.
00:10:30.880 Oh, okay.
00:10:31.600 I mean,
00:10:31.860 is there any evidence
00:10:34.220 against that
00:10:34.800 the Saudis didn't?
00:10:36.200 I'm so sorry.
00:10:36.760 I don't know why
00:10:37.140 I said allegedly.
00:10:39.540 I mean,
00:10:39.860 allegedly,
00:10:40.660 he just took the money
00:10:42.340 knowing this.
00:10:43.800 I only speak about comedy
00:10:45.060 on TPL.
00:10:45.940 I can't comment
00:10:47.460 on anything else you're saying.
00:10:49.120 Allegedly,
00:10:49.720 it was with regard
00:10:50.500 to Pete Davidson's
00:10:51.860 understanding
00:10:52.640 that,
00:10:53.940 yeah,
00:10:54.100 he's taking money
00:10:54.640 from the same guys
00:10:55.300 who killed us badly.
00:10:56.100 I mean,
00:10:56.360 is there any debate
00:10:57.160 that the Saudis
00:10:57.820 weren't involved
00:10:58.940 in 9-11?
00:10:59.720 Is this a conspiracy theory?
00:11:01.300 There's no debate.
00:11:02.000 I want to stipulate again.
00:11:06.740 Let's debate it right now.
00:11:08.180 Okay,
00:11:08.580 well,
00:11:08.780 I don't think they did.
00:11:09.560 All right.
00:11:10.200 I don't think they had
00:11:10.900 anything to do with it.
00:11:11.720 These people love comedy.
00:11:12.900 They love comedy.
00:11:14.700 Why would they do comedy?
00:11:15.960 It couldn't be bad.
00:11:16.940 No.
00:11:17.080 It couldn't be bad.
00:11:17.960 No,
00:11:18.180 but you're right,
00:11:18.680 and that connection
00:11:19.440 has been made.
00:11:20.460 And then the other name
00:11:21.160 is Whitney Cummings,
00:11:22.040 who has spent
00:11:22.560 a very long time
00:11:23.440 talking about women's rights
00:11:24.460 and being a feminist. 1.00
00:11:25.820 I like that Nick waits
00:11:25.840 until we're doing a show
00:11:26.780 to hate me.
00:11:29.500 I was confused.
00:11:32.440 I was excited.
00:11:33.140 No,
00:11:33.300 there's no confusion.
00:11:34.340 I misspoke.
00:11:35.820 What I meant was,
00:11:36.760 allegedly,
00:11:37.900 he has not made
00:11:38.500 the connection,
00:11:39.160 or I don't know.
00:11:40.340 Anyway,
00:11:40.720 Pete Davidson,
00:11:41.400 I guess,
00:11:41.840 shame on you.
00:11:43.120 Whitney Cummings,
00:11:44.000 another one,
00:11:44.500 who is a voice
00:11:45.160 of women's rights
00:11:46.980 and feminism 0.99
00:11:47.620 and standing up
00:11:48.920 for anything
00:11:49.300 that has to do
00:11:50.020 with stuff like this.
00:11:52.140 She's on the plane,
00:11:53.180 on the way.
00:11:53.960 Yeah.
00:11:54.460 Yeah.
00:11:55.480 I wonder how they'll
00:11:56.400 deal with it on stage
00:11:57.240 there.
00:11:57.420 Now,
00:11:57.960 the rest of the comedy
00:11:59.040 community that wasn't
00:12:00.220 invited or didn't take
00:12:01.360 the gig is out there
00:12:02.780 certainly with their opinions.
00:12:04.280 One of them is David Cross,
00:12:05.820 who published an article.
00:12:07.080 Yes,
00:12:07.340 I've actually seen that article.
00:12:08.680 I have it here in front of me.
00:12:09.980 Well,
00:12:10.120 first of all,
00:12:10.500 let me just say this.
00:12:11.360 David Cross,
00:12:11.980 I don't trust
00:12:14.700 bald guys with glasses.
00:12:17.540 I don't find you credible.
00:12:18.700 So just,
00:12:19.280 we're going to start there,
00:12:19.980 okay?
00:12:23.900 I think the best line,
00:12:26.340 he told him to say that.
00:12:28.360 Totally.
00:12:29.440 And he stumbled it out.
00:12:31.420 And he stumbled out
00:12:32.500 and we had no response for him.
00:12:33.900 do you mind if I try it again?
00:12:34.780 Let's do it again.
00:12:35.540 All right.
00:12:36.060 All right.
00:12:37.220 David Cross,
00:12:37.960 let me just say this.
00:12:39.400 These guys never want to have
00:12:40.700 a part in anything you produce.
00:12:42.080 I,
00:12:42.400 however,
00:12:42.700 would love it.
00:12:43.380 I think you're a fantastic guy.
00:12:47.800 You wrote a good article.
00:12:49.020 Let's hear it.
00:12:50.400 The best part for me was,
00:12:51.680 was,
00:12:52.580 yeah,
00:12:53.020 what's the last one?
00:12:53.380 A little further down.
00:12:54.400 It says,
00:12:54.560 I don't understand how being rich 1.00
00:12:56.040 can make someone such a whore. 1.00
00:12:58.700 Wow. 1.00
00:12:59.480 That's really,
00:13:00.860 I mean,
00:13:01.300 Nick,
00:13:01.560 to be honest with you,
00:13:02.220 that sounds like you wrote it.
00:13:03.540 Yeah.
00:13:04.040 That sounds like you wrote that.
00:13:06.060 I've heard Nick say that.
00:13:07.160 I don't know how being rich 1.00
00:13:08.080 could make you such a whore. 1.00
00:13:09.420 Get rich and find out, 1.00
00:13:10.640 buddy.
00:13:11.140 Okay.
00:13:11.960 I mean,
00:13:12.220 I guess it's addictive. 1.00
00:13:13.060 You'll be as big a whore 1.00
00:13:14.040 as any of them. 1.00
00:13:14.680 I see it in your eyes.
00:13:15.380 I guess.
00:13:16.260 I guess.
00:13:16.920 But it is a good line
00:13:17.940 because all of these people
00:13:20.400 pretty much are set
00:13:21.260 in their comedy careers.
00:13:22.060 Yeah.
00:13:22.680 Yeah.
00:13:23.140 I mean,
00:13:23.360 these aren't starving artists,
00:13:24.740 this list.
00:13:25.840 Let's get one thing straight.
00:13:27.040 This isn't,
00:13:27.720 oh,
00:13:27.920 they need to pay their rent
00:13:28.940 so they're doing the Riyadh
00:13:29.780 Comedy Festival.
00:13:31.880 These are people
00:13:32.740 who are millionaires.
00:13:33.780 Yeah.
00:13:34.040 Yeah.
00:13:34.240 I don't see Timmy No-Breaks
00:13:35.560 on the venue list.
00:13:37.300 You know what I mean?
00:13:37.840 Like,
00:13:38.000 they're not giving,
00:13:38.980 you're right,
00:13:39.420 there's nobody in here
00:13:40.300 that's considered
00:13:40.740 an independent comedian
00:13:41.780 or a young,
00:13:43.340 hustling,
00:13:43.800 grinding comedian.
00:13:44.760 No.
00:13:45.120 No.
00:13:45.400 These are all established
00:13:46.440 stadium acts
00:13:47.320 who draw 15,000 to 30,000
00:13:49.920 people per show.
00:13:51.380 I like this, though.
00:13:52.960 I remember the backlash
00:13:54.260 I got for appearing
00:13:55.200 in Alvin and the Chipmunks.
00:13:56.620 You would have thought
00:13:57.400 I had taken the money
00:13:58.140 from a bunch of people
00:13:59.080 responsible for funding
00:14:00.220 Al-Qaeda.
00:14:01.900 What?
00:14:03.740 So,
00:14:04.340 anyway,
00:14:04.740 listen,
00:14:05.060 David,
00:14:05.480 nobody cares about
00:14:06.440 that part of your career.
00:14:07.380 Just wanted to say that.
00:14:08.920 The other stuff in here,
00:14:10.080 okay,
00:14:10.600 a little self-righteous.
00:14:12.040 I get it.
00:14:12.740 You didn't get an invitation.
00:14:14.040 I think the comedy,
00:14:14.940 community reacting
00:14:16.420 to other comedians 0.99
00:14:18.020 is ridiculous, too. 0.98
00:14:20.760 I don't think comedians 0.99
00:14:21.600 should be taken seriously.
00:14:23.180 They are comedians.
00:14:24.540 I don't think it matters
00:14:25.980 where they perform.
00:14:27.520 They're the lowest rung
00:14:28.860 on the entertainment ladder.
00:14:31.240 Jeez.
00:14:32.240 Right above radio hosts
00:14:33.660 and just below podcast hosts,
00:14:36.860 which is where most of them
00:14:37.740 make their fame now.
00:14:38.780 Yeah.
00:14:39.560 I don't think that we should
00:14:41.320 put any value at all 0.82
00:14:44.600 incompetent comedians 0.84
00:14:47.000 as social markers.
00:14:49.260 I don't think they want it.
00:14:50.680 I don't think they need it.
00:14:51.760 And they certainly,
00:14:52.340 I don't think,
00:14:52.760 deserve it.
00:14:53.480 What we need is to laugh.
00:14:56.100 We need to laugh.
00:14:57.440 Whether they have to perform
00:14:59.380 here or there
00:15:00.320 or anywhere,
00:15:01.680 I don't think we should care,
00:15:04.060 to be honest with you.
00:15:05.040 Do you care if somebody
00:15:05.820 goes to work in Saudi Arabia
00:15:06.900 as a doctor?
00:15:09.260 No.
00:15:10.000 No.
00:15:10.660 Do you care if somebody
00:15:11.440 goes to Saudi Arabia
00:15:12.240 to be a wrestler?
00:15:16.660 Yeah.
00:15:17.300 Why?
00:15:18.620 Yeah,
00:15:18.980 because I've seen a lot of them
00:15:20.220 say that they never would
00:15:21.560 when they weren't in the company
00:15:22.860 and the second they go back
00:15:23.960 to the company,
00:15:24.740 the very first thing they do
00:15:25.580 is get on a plane
00:15:26.140 and go to Saudi Arabia.
00:15:27.600 I don't want to see people 0.98
00:15:28.520 be hypocrites. 0.84
00:15:29.300 Me personally, 1.00
00:15:30.000 I don't care.
00:15:31.460 I don't care.
00:15:32.580 Yeah.
00:15:32.960 Me personally.
00:15:33.800 Yeah,
00:15:33.960 that's what I'm saying.
00:15:34.360 In my life,
00:15:34.840 what affects me going to sleep?
00:15:36.200 That was my question.
00:15:36.520 You personally.
00:15:37.240 No.
00:15:37.900 No, 0.99
00:15:38.260 I don't give a shit. 0.99
00:15:39.020 Right. 0.99
00:15:39.480 Yeah.
00:15:40.060 The same way I would hope
00:15:41.140 that none of these comedians
00:15:42.120 care where I go to work
00:15:43.160 because they don't.
00:15:44.800 You know,
00:15:45.040 a lot of people go to Saudi Arabia
00:15:46.120 to do business.
00:15:47.800 A lot of people do that.
00:15:49.560 People that are respected
00:15:50.960 and have,
00:15:51.840 you know,
00:15:52.080 big positions,
00:15:52.960 a lot of finance
00:15:53.620 goes through there.
00:15:55.460 I've got to be honest with you.
00:15:57.160 I think this was just
00:15:58.400 an easy marker
00:15:59.860 for people to get on top of them
00:16:02.000 and hate them
00:16:03.960 because they took a job
00:16:05.160 in Saudi Arabia
00:16:05.960 that's visible.
00:16:07.880 The same thing
00:16:09.260 that if Taylor Swift
00:16:11.040 performed there.
00:16:11.880 And I think she did.
00:16:12.900 If anybody ever looked
00:16:14.620 my name up,
00:16:15.300 they would see that,
00:16:16.140 you know,
00:16:16.520 over the past couple of years,
00:16:17.600 I've done MMA
00:16:18.660 and wrestling podcasts
00:16:19.940 and radio shows.
00:16:20.940 And I have talked
00:16:22.480 about events in Riyadh
00:16:24.000 and UFC going there
00:16:25.900 and building their relationship
00:16:27.240 with His Excellency over there. 0.98
00:16:29.420 I would be a hypocrite 0.94
00:16:32.400 if I said 0.94
00:16:32.960 that I stopped watching
00:16:34.420 the UFC
00:16:34.840 because they went
00:16:35.460 to Saudi Arabia. 0.99
00:16:36.300 So I'd be a hypocrite 0.95
00:16:37.120 to say that I'm going 0.95
00:16:37.680 to turn my back
00:16:38.300 on any of these comedians.
00:16:39.400 I'm just surprised.
00:16:41.140 Me personally,
00:16:42.040 I'm actually kind of
00:16:42.880 blown back
00:16:43.500 by seeing some of these names
00:16:44.980 because I,
00:16:46.180 maybe it's my own fault
00:16:47.360 for painting an image
00:16:48.400 of these people
00:16:49.020 that maybe,
00:16:49.840 they're characters.
00:16:50.720 They're on stage
00:16:51.480 playing a character,
00:16:52.360 no different than a wrestler.
00:16:53.820 Right?
00:16:54.700 Maybe I,
00:16:56.180 to me,
00:16:56.540 I just thought that
00:16:57.180 a guy like Jimmy Carter
00:16:58.240 wouldn't do this.
00:16:59.460 Not on my belief system.
00:17:01.020 Based off of his belief system
00:17:02.340 and the way
00:17:02.640 that he has portrayed himself,
00:17:03.920 I just see this
00:17:04.740 as a complete 180
00:17:05.760 from who I thought he was.
00:17:08.420 So then I'm left
00:17:09.340 with a kind of a,
00:17:10.080 I think it's a,
00:17:12.400 it is what it is
00:17:13.240 and this is the way
00:17:13.860 the world is
00:17:14.560 kind of feeling from it.
00:17:15.940 David Cross,
00:17:16.720 what do you think?
00:17:19.360 Sorry,
00:17:19.800 his glasses got me.
00:17:22.720 I'm a little less
00:17:23.860 casual about it.
00:17:25.280 You know,
00:17:25.580 I do kind of think 0.99
00:17:26.400 they're kind of hypocrites 0.99
00:17:27.420 for doing this, 0.99
00:17:28.500 even what I said previously.
00:17:31.180 You know,
00:17:31.720 again,
00:17:32.160 these were people crying
00:17:33.180 about,
00:17:33.820 you know,
00:17:34.080 being silenced
00:17:34.840 and what have you.
00:17:35.720 Then you go in
00:17:36.460 and work for
00:17:37.020 an oppressive government.
00:17:39.040 That's hard to argue with.
00:17:40.400 It is.
00:17:40.740 That right there
00:17:43.120 is like the sticking point,
00:17:44.940 you know,
00:17:45.420 allegedly.
00:17:46.100 And I'm very curious
00:17:46.760 what Bill Burr's reaction
00:17:48.720 to this will be,
00:17:49.740 like what he'll actually say.
00:17:50.840 Yeah, me too.
00:17:51.020 That's my next question,
00:17:52.160 you guys.
00:17:52.500 How do you think
00:17:53.040 they react
00:17:53.780 to the world's reaction?
00:17:55.220 Let's hope that
00:17:56.060 Bill Burr acts
00:17:56.800 the same way he did
00:17:57.640 during that
00:17:58.060 Opie and Anthony
00:17:58.720 festival in Philly.
00:18:00.100 Oh,
00:18:00.380 that would be the best
00:18:01.600 where he just tore down
00:18:02.640 Philadelphia for,
00:18:04.260 he made,
00:18:04.940 and at one point
00:18:05.520 he said,
00:18:06.880 no,
00:18:07.160 no,
00:18:07.360 no,
00:18:07.560 I'm doing my full 15.
00:18:09.460 Hey guys.
00:18:10.280 I don't care.
00:18:11.980 No,
00:18:12.380 I can't even say,
00:18:13.160 I can't even joke
00:18:13.780 about what he would say
00:18:14.720 if he was on stage
00:18:15.620 mad at Saudi Arabia
00:18:16.760 and being,
00:18:17.820 you know,
00:18:18.500 because in Canada
00:18:19.180 you'll get cancelled
00:18:19.960 because we have
00:18:20.560 similar speech laws
00:18:21.880 apparently.
00:18:23.060 Yeah.
00:18:24.040 Yeah,
00:18:24.520 no,
00:18:24.660 but I,
00:18:24.940 and I do see
00:18:25.500 that side of it,
00:18:26.180 Nick,
00:18:26.360 that's really hard
00:18:27.120 to justify
00:18:27.860 that a country
00:18:29.140 that is so oppressive,
00:18:31.220 you'd want to go
00:18:31.980 and participate
00:18:32.620 in comedy
00:18:33.880 that is so,
00:18:35.080 you know,
00:18:36.100 meant to be
00:18:36.660 so open
00:18:37.680 and so unoppressed.
00:18:39.500 But I do agree
00:18:40.240 with you that,
00:18:41.600 you know,
00:18:41.780 we shouldn't be
00:18:42.160 taking these people,
00:18:42.980 I think this is evidence
00:18:43.940 that we should not
00:18:44.700 be taking these people
00:18:45.560 as seriously
00:18:46.200 as we have
00:18:47.000 in the past
00:18:47.660 10 years or so.
00:18:49.020 Yeah,
00:18:49.420 100%.
00:18:50.100 I remember
00:18:51.840 comedians having 0.99
00:18:53.200 garbage opinions 0.99
00:18:53.880 when I was young, 0.96
00:18:55.740 you know,
00:18:56.520 Sam Kinison,
00:18:57.700 Jim was talking
00:18:58.380 with a Sam Kinison
00:18:59.080 bit about kids
00:18:59.760 in Africa.
00:19:00.400 I think that joke 1.00
00:19:00.860 sucks. 0.99
00:19:01.740 Right. 0.99
00:19:02.000 You know,
00:19:03.180 I don't agree
00:19:03.960 with him at all.
00:19:04.540 It was never,
00:19:06.060 that's the thing,
00:19:06.960 we need to be able
00:19:07.800 to decide for ourselves
00:19:09.380 what's funny
00:19:11.080 and not funny
00:19:11.920 in that realm.
00:19:14.080 But I don't think
00:19:15.520 this is really
00:19:16.440 the same
00:19:16.840 in the sense
00:19:17.300 that those people
00:19:18.180 are taking
00:19:18.480 their regular acts
00:19:19.340 maybe updating
00:19:19.940 it a little bit
00:19:20.600 and performing
00:19:22.400 somewhere
00:19:23.060 and somehow
00:19:23.920 we put some meaning
00:19:25.300 behind
00:19:25.860 their presence
00:19:28.000 here.
00:19:28.580 You know what I mean?
00:19:29.320 Because they have podcasts
00:19:30.460 because they appear
00:19:31.840 on Joe Rogan
00:19:32.620 who by the way
00:19:33.320 is a comedian
00:19:33.940 and a fighter
00:19:34.640 and has been given
00:19:36.060 such elevation
00:19:37.940 by the whole world
00:19:39.660 that we take
00:19:41.580 all comedians
00:19:42.380 seriously
00:19:42.780 who have a podcast
00:19:43.540 or appear on one now.
00:19:44.740 like they have
00:19:45.320 real opinions
00:19:46.140 like they have
00:19:46.800 real weight
00:19:48.260 in this world.
00:19:49.720 You know,
00:19:50.060 maybe this is one
00:19:51.020 of the reasons
00:19:51.440 why I just loved
00:19:52.560 Norm and thought
00:19:53.340 he was the best.
00:19:54.180 Norm MacDonald.
00:19:55.240 He always played 1.00
00:19:55.980 the dumb guy 1.00
00:19:56.480 in the room. 1.00
00:19:57.600 Anytime the microphone
00:19:58.400 was put on
00:19:59.040 and he wasn't put
00:19:59.800 on the spot
00:20:00.360 or anytime he was
00:20:01.140 in the green room
00:20:02.140 somewhere
00:20:02.580 he always played 1.00
00:20:03.320 the dumb guy 1.00
00:20:03.860 although he was 1.00
00:20:05.380 the smartest guy
00:20:05.960 in the room.
00:20:07.180 He always played 1.00
00:20:07.820 the dumb guy 1.00
00:20:08.340 because he had 1.00
00:20:09.140 that same kind
00:20:09.700 of opinion.
00:20:10.400 It's not why
00:20:10.880 we're hired.
00:20:11.820 We're hired
00:20:12.400 to make people laugh
00:20:13.300 not spew out
00:20:14.780 our opinion.
00:20:15.900 Yeah.
00:20:16.220 I think that
00:20:16.860 that's where
00:20:18.000 I think we all
00:20:18.460 do agree.
00:20:18.960 A lot of opinionated
00:20:20.880 credibility
00:20:22.980 has been given
00:20:23.540 to comedians lately
00:20:24.500 and really
00:20:25.140 what I like best
00:20:26.880 about comedians
00:20:27.560 is that they say
00:20:28.220 something horrible
00:20:28.820 that makes me laugh
00:20:29.620 so hard
00:20:30.100 I can't feel my legs
00:20:31.100 for a half hour.
00:20:32.300 One of the most
00:20:33.420 openly criticized
00:20:34.620 comedians
00:20:35.440 in the world
00:20:35.900 right now
00:20:36.420 literally just stood up
00:20:38.160 for his belief system
00:20:39.880 on this
00:20:40.300 and said
00:20:40.700 stop calling me
00:20:41.660 and doubling
00:20:42.060 the money
00:20:42.580 because I'll
00:20:43.360 eventually take it
00:20:44.200 I'd rather you
00:20:44.640 just lose my number.
00:20:45.680 Shane Gillis.
00:20:46.280 Shane Gillis.
00:20:47.120 I guess they called him
00:20:47.920 they doubled it
00:20:48.640 he said no
00:20:49.380 they doubled that number
00:20:50.520 he said no
00:20:51.140 they doubled it again
00:20:52.000 and he said
00:20:52.280 lose my number
00:20:53.020 he can't
00:20:53.980 he can't call me anymore
00:20:54.960 because eventually
00:20:55.600 I will say yes.
00:20:57.480 Yeah.
00:20:58.340 Yeah.
00:20:58.800 So is that the stance
00:20:59.980 that you think
00:21:01.080 that comedians
00:21:01.680 should have taken
00:21:02.320 or do you think
00:21:02.920 that they should
00:21:03.420 like if you were
00:21:04.320 if you were the end all
00:21:05.960 be all
00:21:06.360 and your opinion
00:21:06.920 is the only thing
00:21:07.560 that mattered
00:21:08.040 Mike
00:21:08.400 just because we're
00:21:09.140 on your show
00:21:10.700 would you rather be
00:21:11.580 in the category
00:21:12.160 of the Shane Gillis
00:21:13.000 these people
00:21:13.680 be in that category
00:21:14.680 or would you rather
00:21:15.200 just go out
00:21:15.720 and get their bag
00:21:16.380 and stop everybody
00:21:17.940 judging them
00:21:18.520 like what do you think
00:21:19.860 or is that too
00:21:21.040 you know I just
00:21:21.460 thought of something
00:21:22.060 when you asked me that
00:21:22.980 and maybe
00:21:24.080 this is like a stretch
00:21:26.340 right
00:21:26.700 but maybe
00:21:27.800 these people
00:21:28.440 going and reflecting
00:21:29.540 different values
00:21:31.520 in that country
00:21:32.220 could change
00:21:34.180 some things
00:21:34.760 not if they're
00:21:35.720 but they've been
00:21:36.160 signed an agreement
00:21:36.760 not to say certain things
00:21:37.860 so negative
00:21:40.640 that's probably true
00:21:42.400 ladies and gentlemen
00:21:43.260 our guest this week
00:21:44.360 was Mr. Cross
00:21:45.400 and
00:21:46.160 Mr. David Cross
00:21:47.780 I just had to double up
00:21:48.640 that mic joke
00:21:49.380 just because that
00:21:50.380 was a perfect answer
00:21:51.260 Nick
00:21:51.540 yeah no I get that
00:21:53.280 it really was a good answer
00:21:54.040 I get that
00:21:54.660 right
00:21:55.040 I think that
00:21:56.780 maybe
00:21:58.040 it wasn't time
00:22:00.180 for the Riyadh
00:22:00.720 Comedy Festival
00:22:01.520 to
00:22:01.900 I mean
00:22:02.820 is it just
00:22:03.500 American comedians
00:22:04.420 by the way
00:22:04.780 I see a list
00:22:05.260 of American comedians
00:22:06.260 and of course
00:22:07.080 Jimmy Carter
00:22:07.600 Russell
00:22:07.680 Russell
00:22:08.520 now American
00:22:10.600 Julio
00:22:12.360 Iglesias
00:22:12.840 I didn't even
00:22:13.400 know he did comedy
00:22:14.140 well they had
00:22:16.980 a Saudi comedian
00:22:17.540 but his head fell off
00:22:18.460 oh
00:22:19.420 wow
00:22:22.480 if we made it
00:22:24.460 that far
00:22:25.200 you know what
00:22:26.020 it was almost
00:22:26.420 the end of the show
00:22:27.080 and you might have
00:22:27.660 noticed a really
00:22:28.260 rough cut just now
00:22:29.280 and that
00:22:29.940 that was caused
00:22:31.400 by Nick
00:22:32.180 right there
00:22:33.900 very funny joke
00:22:35.460 and you know what
00:22:36.140 we'll see you next year
00:22:37.400 at the Riyadh Comedy Festival
00:22:38.580 I think that one's 0.99
00:22:40.340 gonna kill 0.99
00:22:40.740 look 0.99
00:22:42.200 share your opinion
00:22:43.700 tell us what you think
00:22:44.760 by the way
00:22:45.500 to all the comedians
00:22:46.200 that I listed
00:22:46.680 and made fun of today
00:22:47.580 the ones that I forgot
00:22:48.580 were Mark Norman
00:22:49.560 not great
00:22:50.080 Chris DiStefano
00:22:51.980 I don't know
00:22:52.900 Kennedy
00:22:53.300 I like Norman
00:22:55.220 I'm just kidding
00:22:56.520 I like them all
00:22:57.160 except for Kevin Hart
00:22:58.200 thank you for joining us
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