Whitney Cummings has heard the criticisms for performing on the controversial Riyadh Comedy Pageant, which the comic has dismissed as “simply racism.”
Cummings spoke up on her Good for You podcast, the place she responded to the continued disapproval being leveled at comedians like herself who traveled to Saudi Arabia for the fest.
“I suppose I’m this weirdo. I don’t function beneath, you understand, the concept each authorities and their individuals are the identical,” she stated. “Like, you assume that the folks of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi authorities all share [the same values]? So that you additionally imagine that the Chinese language authorities and the Chinese language individuals are precisely the identical? It’s simply racism. I believe it took me a second, as a result of when individuals are going like, ‘You’re doing one thing unethical,’ I’m like, ‘Oh, these have to be moral folks, let me pay attention.’ And you then’re like, ‘Oh no, you’re simply racist.’ However these are additionally, by the way in which, the identical folks that might go like, ‘Trump’s not my president! I’m nothing like our authorities.’ However different international locations are?”
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Cummings is the newest in a line of comedians who’ve defended their resolution to carry out on the Riyadh Comedy Pageant. Aziz Ansari faced off in opposition to Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night discuss present about it just lately, saying that whereas it’s “an advanced situation,” he nonetheless needed to carry out, and that “there’s folks over there that don’t agree with the stuff that the federal government’s doing, and to ascribe just like the worst habits of the federal government onto these folks, that’s not truthful.”
Invoice Burr popped up on a stay taping of the Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal podcast to say that he believes the controversy isn’t real, and is being infected by bots.
Whereas comic Jessica Kirson has apologized for her look on the fest, Louis C.Okay. defended his resolution to carry out there, calling it “a superb alternative.”
Dave Chappelle used his set on the occasion to say that “it’s simpler to speak right here than it’s in America.”
Marc Maron, Shane Gillis and Zach Woods have all spoken out against the comics who selected to take part within the comedy pageant.
