In late September, David Cross stirred up controversy by calling out Bill Burr,Dave Chappelle, and more of his peers for performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia, which he blasted as a “disgusting” acceptance of the country’s “totalitarian” attacks on human rights. Now that the festival has come and gone, a number of comics—including Burr and Aziz Ansari—have publicly defended their decision to participate, with the former dismissing criticisms and the latter offering to give part of the fee he received to charity—an offer at least one organization has already said it will not accept
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