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Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka Reveals Riyadh Fest’s “Censorship Rules” After Turning Down Gig

With Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Comedy Festival kicking off this weekend, Atsuko Okatsuka has revealed some of the event's strict terms.

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Oh the wee cwown pwince doesn't want to get his feelings hurt?
Good on her for standing up and passing on being some cunt's jester.
Wow, how have I not seen or heard anything about this until yesterday? The event started 9/26 and lasts through 10/9.
I really hope every single one of them enjoys the backlash their gonna get back home. Ah what do I know, they won't care. I'm sure their purse strings are about to bust apart once they get paid.
- The participant list is greater than what I've seen listed here and other posts. Wikipedia lists them but here they are as of 9/28.
  Participants:
  Aziz Ansari
  Hannibal Buress
  Bill Burr
  Jimmy Carr
  Dave Chappelle
  Louis C.K.
  Whitney Cummings
  Pete Davidson
  Christ Distefano
  Omid Djalili
  Zarna Garg
  Kevin Hart (edit/spelling)
  Gabriel Iglesias
  Jim Jefferies
  Jimeoin
  Maz Jobrani
  Jessica Kirson
  Jo Koy
  Bobby Lee
  Sebastian Maniscalco
  Sam Morril
  Mark Normand
  Nimesh Patel
  Russell Peters
  Jeff Ross
  Andrew Santino
  Andrew Schulz
  Tom Segura
  Jack Whitehall
  Ali Siddiq
  Ben Hart
  Aries Spears
  Mo Amer
  Wayne Brady
  The short list of who have declined shows as: Shane Gillis, Stavros Halkias, and Atsuko Okatsuka. Tim Dillon was intending to participate but was removed due to previously made jokes.
  Marc Maron, Shane Gillis, Gianmarco Soresi, and Zack Woods have criticized the event and the performers.
  
  Do we think any of these people are going to just ignore the rules anyway?
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Good for her, I will check her, and the others mentioned, out. If anyone else is interested in a list of abstained, the article lists:
Atsuko Okatsuka
Leslie Liao
Mike Birbiglia
Shane Gillis
The article also goes on to mention some of those who are billed for the event:
... the Riyadh Comedy Festival has grown to include Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Hannibal Buress, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Zarna Garg, Gabriel Iglesias, Jim Jefferies, Jo Koy, Bobby Lee, Jeff Ross, Andrew Santino, Tom Segura, Chris Tucker and more.
- Mike Birbiglia
  Thanks the lord, love me some Birbiglia. I'm really bummed Burr, Hannibal, Aziz, and some others are on that list 😞
I wonder how many participants will fall back to the “My dog has no nose” joke or similar.
- No nose? How does he smell?
I knew I liked her.

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