My take on the Riyadh comedy festival in Saudi Arabia, if you do it and you come back, all praise to be to Allah, if you come back, and I'm, first of all, I'm going to count your fingers and your toes, make sure you got all of them. I'm going to say, good, I'm glad you're back. I'm glad it was a round trip, but guess what? We're going to make fun of you for a little bit. And that's the rule.

No one's being excommunicated from the comedy society.

Everyone is welcome back.

Everyone can come back to wherever they told jokes before, but just know people are going to make fun of you a little bit. The same way we're going to make fun of you if we saw you at the inauguration. The same reason we're going to make fun of you. If we saw you caping for, if you were standing next to Joe Biden and licking an ice cream comb in aviator glasses with him,

we would make fun of you, okay?

That's how it should be, and that's how it's been for so long.

But this one thing is supposed to make us go, no, please, no, you, because if you do that

festival, you're performing for their Don Jr. If Don Jr. could kill people.

If Don Jr. had his own wing at Rikers, that's who you're performing for.

And if you go over there and say, oh, they were so nice to me.

Great.

Good.

I'm glad you made it back.

But guess what?

We get to make funny for a little bit.

This is Good One.

I am Jesse David Fox, senior writer at Vulture, and author of Comedy Book.

Today, instead of a traditional deep dive interview, we're going to talk about the biggest

comedy news story happening right now, the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

The lineup includes some of the biggest names in comedy right now and ever.

Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Gabriel Iglesias, Ziz Ansari, Louis C.K., Andrew Shultz,

Pete Davidson, Topsogura, Chris Tucker, Whitney Cummings, and more.

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