Comics perfomed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia, which has been known for violating human rights, showing their ...

Whitney Cummings is the latest comedian to defend performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which sparked widespread backlash in the comedy industry for its ties to the Saudi Arabia government.

Comedian Bill Burr is defending his performance at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival. The A-list celebrity, and others like Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson and Kevin Hart, has received backlash from ...

The lineup of A-list comedians who are jetting off to Saudi Arabia to perform at the two-week Riyadh Comedy Festival notably does not include central Pennsylvania’s own stand up star Shane Gillis.

As the first-ever Riyadh Comedy Festival drew to a close last week, a debate raged across entertainment as to whether the free speech warriors who’ve decried cancel culture in their stand-up gigs — ...

The star-studded lineup of Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival is still catching heat from peers back in the U.S. After drawing criticism from the likes of Marc Maron and Atsuko Okatsuka, David ...

(The Hill) – Several U.S. comedians are blasting the star-studded Riyadh Comedy Festival over Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses. The festival, which kicked off on Friday, features prominent stand-up ...

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday it will not accept donations from comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. The human rights organization told Variety that it “cannot ...

Some of the biggest comedians in the world are descending upon Saudi Arabia for what's being billed as the "world's largest comedy festival," and their fans and peers alike are slamming them for their ...

In his video, Woods mixed sharp satire with pointed references to the country’s human rights record, calling out entertainers for lending legitimacy to a regime accused of censorship, repression, and ...

Jessica Kirson has expressed her deep regret at performing at the Saudi Arabian comedy festival. However, she’s done something great with the money and explains her good reasoning for attending in the ...