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Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival

✍️ Jason Zinoman 📅 October 09, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: October 10, 2025

Summary: Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia.

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is ending Thursday, after setting off a Taylor Swift level of discourse, and the American comics who performed there have been returning home and explaining why they participated.

Bill Burr argued that play

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