Tim Dillon was scheduled to perform, but was later dropped by the Riyadh festival allegedly due to jokes he made about the country’s alleged use of slave labor.
On The Tim Dillon Show, he said he was “being paid a lot of money to not care about what they do in their country.”
“The more money you pay me, the less I’m going to think about it. This is a really important thing that no one does anymore and I’m recommending it. Look the other way!” he said on the podcast.
“I believe in pretending things that are not happening that are. I believe in cognitive dissonance…I will sleep through the screams.”
Weeks later, on his show, he recalled his agent telling him: “They heard what you said about them having slaves.”
“And I said ‘I was being positive about it, I was defending them!…I literally said ‘slaves are probably hard workers and for the most part agreeable’…they didn’t like that,” he said.
“I addressed it in a funny way, and they fired me. I certainly wasn’t gonna show up in your country and insult the people that are paying me the money.”
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