The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...

The comedian was one of more than 50 high-profile acts who performed at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Comedians are being criticized by their peers for participating in a Saudi comedy festival while speech is repressed.

The comedian Dave Chappelle is facing backlash for a joke he made at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, in Saudi Arabia.

Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly ...

NEW YORK — Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian satirist whose “Daily Show”-like program was canceled after the military seized the once pro-democracy government, watched the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel with ...

American comics used Saudi Arabia’s first global comedy festival to skewer a debate raging at home. Critics said the event was part of Saudi efforts to draw attention away from a political crackdown.

The Riyadh Comedy Festival discourse roped in comedians across the political spectrum, with some comics defending their participation by claiming the U.S. didn’t fare much better when it came to free ...

The decision by some of stand-up’s biggest names to attend a festival in a nation infamous for its censorship has the comedy ...

Comedian Whitney Cummings is defending her and fellow comedians' performances at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival in ...

The Saudi Arabian event is being sold as the “world’s largest comedy” hub—but Pete Davidson, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Aziz ...

In authoritarian regimes, crackdowns on speech usually make comedy a target. “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether. We're the banana peel in the coal mine,” Jon Stewart said in 2022 ...