{"id":176541,"date":"2025-09-29T00:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176541\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:51:07","slug":"comedians-called-out-for-saudi-arabia-comedy-festival-gig-drama-explained-5-comedians-said-no-1-dropped-from-lineup-atsuko-okutsuka-aziz-ansari-chris-distefano-dave-chappelle-jimmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176541\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedians Called Out for Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival Gig: Drama Explained \u2013 5 Comedians Said No, 1 Dropped From Lineup! | Atsuko Okutsuka, Aziz Ansari, Chris DiStefano, Dave Chappelle, jimmy carr, Kevin Hart, Leslie Liao, Longform, Mike Birbiglia, Shane Gillis, Slideshow, Stavros Halkias, Tim Dillon | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\"Atsuko<\/p>\n

Atsuko Okutsuka<\/a> also said no.<\/p>\n

\u201cFYI there are more of us that said no to the Riyadh comedy festival in Saudi Arabia. Here\u2019s the offer I got back in July,\u201d she wrote on Threads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe money is coming straight from the Crown Prince, who actively executes journalists, ppl with nonlethal drug offenses, bloggers, etc without due process. A lot of the \u201cyou can\u2019t say anything anymore!\u201d Comedians are doing the festival \ud83d\ude02 they had to adhere to censorship rules about the types of jokes they can make.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/p>\n

Mike Birbiglia<\/a> also confirmed that he passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also passed. Respect to atsuko and Shane and others for passing,\u201d he wrote on Threads.<\/p>\n

Leslie Liao<\/a> also said no.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said no too \ud83d\ude4b\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f you inspired me (I got the offer after we talked about it). You were right,\u201d she wrote on Threads.<\/a><\/p>\n

Find out who was already dropped from the lineup for their jokes\u2026<\/p>\n

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\t\t\tPhotos: Getty\t\t\tPosted to: Atsuko Okutsuka<\/a>, Aziz Ansari<\/a>, Chris DiStefano<\/a>, Dave Chappelle<\/a>, jimmy carr<\/a>, Kevin Hart<\/a>, Leslie Liao<\/a>, Longform<\/a>, Mike Birbiglia<\/a>, Shane Gillis<\/a>, Slideshow<\/a>, Stavros Halkias<\/a>, Tim Dillon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00ab First\u00ab Previous Continue \u00bb Atsuko Okutsuka also said no. \u201cFYI there are more of us that said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-176541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}