“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” the comedian Dave Chappelle quipped on Saturday at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the first event of its kind in Saudi Arabia. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.”
The thing about Burr is the vast majority of people just didn’t bother to “hear the rest of the joke”
Like the joke he had about Beyonce performing for some dudes bday party in the middle east and the guy was like right up there with Saudi Princes and Burr denounces Beyonce for doing it…the punchline being he’d do the same shit as her.
His whole schtick with the billionaires was a bit. all the time he says this stuff and people decide to stop hitting record JUST before he says he’d do the same thing.
And all these comedians have the same song and dance with very few exceptions. They’re ONLY pro freespeech when their jobs are on the line, when there’s potential to lose money. Just like they came out and support kimmel and colbert yeah man all about Free Speech, against cancel culture, all that. BUT when there’s an easy million dollars to be made? fuck free speech.
If the FCC or Trump came out and said “I’ll give any comedian a couple million if they help me denounce Kimmel and Colbert” there’d be a line of them around the block waiting to take a swing.
If you’ve listened to his podcast at all lately, you’d know that the billionaire stuff is not a schtick. He has come very far left, though still has some both sides tendencies (probably trying not to alienate a chunk of his audience).
That said, I stopped listening when they announced this, and I emailed the podcast to let him know exactly why.