David Cross has become the latest star to heavily criticise a host of comedians who have agreed to perform at Saudi Arabia\u2019s Riyadh Comedy Festival.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: David Cross<\/a><\/p>\n Last week Marc Maron, Shane Gillis and Zach Woods hit out at a raft of A-list names for performing at the event, which is currently taking place at Boulevard City<\/a>.<\/p>\n Their comments came after a report by nonprofit group Human Rights Watch<\/a> recently stated that the Saudi government view the event as an opportunity to whitewash Saudi human rights abuses.<\/p>\n The comics specifically called out the country\u2019s alleged role in 9\/11 and the alleged assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi which a UN report previously said \u201cthe state of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is responsible\u201d for. Saudi Arabia has always denied this.<\/p>\n Now, Arrested Development star Cross has also taken aim at comics including Dave Chappelle<\/a>, Louis C.K.<\/a> and Bill Burr<\/a>\u00a0in a lengthy post on Instagram for appearing at the event.<\/p>\n \u201cI am disgusted, and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing,\u201d\u00a0Cross wrote. \u201cThat people I admire, with unarguable talent, would condone this totalitarian fiefdom for\u2026what, a fourth house? A boat? More sneakers?\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cWe can never again take seriously anything these comedians complain about (unless it\u2019s complaining that we don\u2019t support enough torture and mass executions of journalists and LGBQT peace activists here in the states, or that we don\u2019t terrorise enough Americans by flying planes into our buildings).\u201d<\/p>\n Cross went on to call out specific names from the lineup, including comedy giant Chappelle, CK and Burr.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cClearly you guys don\u2019t give a shit about what the rest of us think, but how can any of us take any of you seriously ever again?<\/p>\n \u201cAll of your bitching about \u2018cancel culture\u2019 and \u2018freedom of speech\u2019 and all that shit? Done. You don\u2019t get to talk about it ever again. By now we\u2019ve all seen the contract you had to sign.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re performing for literally, the most oppressive regime on Earth. They have SLAVES for fuck\u2019s sake!!!\u201d<\/p>\n Chappelle, CK and Burr are yet to respond to his comments publicly.<\/p>\n Cross concluded his statement by encouraging his followers to \u201cspend their money on something worthwhile\u201d like donating to the Human Rights Foundation.<\/p>\n The festival was announced in July by Turki Al-Sheikh, the chairman of the Saudi General Entertainment Authority, and it is part of the country\u2019s Vision 2030 strategy to develop Saudi Arabia as a venue for major international cultural events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Cross has become the latest star to heavily criticise a host of comedians who have agreed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-58978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}