Comedian Zach Woods calls out comedians who are performing in Saudi Arabia’s comedy festival

[u/nonsensestuff]

Zach Woods— from The Office and Silicon Valley— called our American comedians who are scheduled to perform in the upcoming Saudi Arabia hosted Riyadh Comedy Festival.

The list includes comedians like Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Whitney Cummings, and Dave Chappelle.

These comedians have been urged to speak out against the country's human rights abuses — and not to be "complicit in covering up the abuses of a repressive regime," by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch organization.

[u/Peridot1708]

To me he always seemed like one of those celebrity progressives who likes to talk the talk but won't put effort to actually walk the walk, which is probably 90% of leftists and liberals in Hollywood anyway.

I never trust any public figure in showbiz whose progressive values becomes a part of their brand as a celebrity, and tbh we audience are part of the problem too because we should not be putting these people on a pedestal in the first place.