Comedians like Dave Chappelle poked fun at an alleged chilling effect on free speech in the U.S. after they signed contracts to do government-approved comedy acts at a festival in Saudi Arabia. In the ...

While headlining Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival on Saturday (via The New York Times), comedy giant Dave Chappelle deliberated over the do’s and don’ts of free speech in America, deeming it ...

“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America,” Dave Chappelle told an audience in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Chappelle was in the kingdom as part of the Riyadh Comedy Festival. His decision — and ...

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As comedians from Bill Burr to Kevin Hart were slammed for performing at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival, Dave Chappelle said the Middle Eastern nation is actually more suitable for stand-up ...

Before Wayne Brady’s dinner-theater shows this weekend, will he pull a drive-by, “choke a bitch,” or snap a street cop’s neck? We hope so. Those are three stunts he executed in just one sketch as a ...

Madeline Brewer studied the backlash to Dave Chappelle for her role as a comic in new movie "Anniversary." Brewer then called ...

Dave Chappelle ironically used a Saudi comedy event to talk about freedom of speech. According to The New York Times, Chappelle — who has been under fired for his transphobic jokes in the past — used ...

(JTA) — During his controversial set at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia, comedian Dave Chappelle joked that he would use the phrase “I stand with Israel” as a code to alert fans he was ...

Dave Chappelle was in Saudi Arabia this week, where he was one of the biggest names—and also, one can only assume, the biggest paychecks—at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival. Per The New York ...