Riyadh Comedy Festival - Saudi Arabia

[emptiness dancing]

Funny Nuance Take By Trevor Noah 

Some Highlights 
1:30 - What Saudi Arabia is all about?
3.15 - i would only perform in the us
4.15 - $10000,this is already paid for.
4.55 - is it laundering their image?
5.42 - comedians? how could they? 
6.19 - jokes about Modi? 
6.55 - America as an idea would've had more of a leg to stand on, as a moral authority
8.00 - Abraham Lincoln being shot, you can make those kind of jokes
9.30 - everyone is a sellout, you need to respect the institutions
10.45 - 1 man killed vs how many America has killed with no due process.
11.50 - Saudi's might be going in the right direction. 
12.00 - 1 of the first thing you lose in an authoritarian regime is comedy.
12.15 - No standup comedy in South Africa. No black comedians in South Africa.
12.45 - Putin shuts down puppet show that make fun of World Leaders.
13.20 - Charlie Chaplin first time shows Hitler as an idiot.
14.00 - The audiences  are now mixed in Saudi Arabia.
14.15 - Meanwhile, in America, comedians are afraid to talk about Charlie Kirk.
15.15 - Nothing funny with most things in our live, find the funny
15.53 - America's response is to limit speech
16.30 - Jokes will never kill you.
18.25 - Maybe, the comedians are sleeper agents
19.55 - It's not a binary.
20.45 - President jokes, comedian NO!!!
21.30 - All these comedians are going to America.

[Lyubov]

Saudia Arabia is buying up USA culture and the wealthy at the top are selling it all out. It’s really bizarre. The WWE sold out to them too and I heard some other spots organizations as well. It’s a way for the state to try and wash its image as a totalitarian dictatorship that limits personal liberties of its citizens. It’s a shit hole on a humanitarian level but materially pretty good. 

[enchanted]

1 hour ago, Lyubov said:

 

This is great

[emptiness dancing]

3 hours ago, Lyubov said:

Saudia Arabia is buying up USA culture 

Thats a bad thing? Assimilating US values to loosen some of their conservative values

3 hours ago, Lyubov said:

 It’s a way for the state to try and wash its image as a totalitarian dictatorship that limits personal liberties of its citizens. 

Who is going to liberalize them when its an alien concept to them?

[Twentyfirst]

2 hours ago, emptiness dancing said:

Thats a bad thing? Assimilating US values to loosen some of their conservative values

Who is going to liberalize them when its an alien concept to them?

Yeah, since a century of the region getting bombed into submission didn't change the stubborn values a few idiot comedians sure will

Orrrr they want to economically conquer the US using soft power

Why would they pay to trojan horse themselves? You just can't imagine a world where Arabs outsmart White people. To you it's an impossible feat

Edited October 9 by Twentyfirst