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Yannis Pappas Hour

🇺🇸 Comedy Commandos in Saudi Arabia | YP Hour

Yannis Pappas Hour

Yannis Pappas

News, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, News Commentary

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is making headlines. Is it comedy-washing—propping up repression, keeping women in chains, and stifling free speech—or is it genuine progress? Yanni dives into Saudi motives, money, and what’s really behind the laughs. If you’re mad about comedians taking their cash, wait until you hear who else has been pocketing Saudi money. Did the House of Saud do 9/11? Yanni breaks down all the nuance, and ultimately levies an argument that comedians are the commandos rescuing oil money for the U.S. economy—and more. Warning: lots of sarcasm in this episode as always. If you love our small show, support the production and get bonus content every week. https://www.patreon.com/yannispappashour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aqabar.

0:03.9

How is everybody today?

0:06.5

I would like to thank my producers, my sponsors,

0:11.0

Prince Al-Had-I-I.

0:14.0

I don't remember your name.

0:16.0

I apologize.

0:17.0

English is my first language,

0:19.0

and I'm not even fluent in Greek, much to the surprise of many of the Greek fans that I've met,

0:25.7

because I do do a Greek character, Mr. Panos, that they adore, that they've known since they were young.

0:34.2

And they're always surprised that I don't speak Greek.

0:37.0

They're almost a surprise that I don't speak Greek as much as Puerto Ricans were surprised that I don't speak Greek. They're almost a surprise that I don't speak Greek

0:38.8

as much as Puerto Ricans were surprised that I wasn't Puerto Rican

0:41.7

when the character of Maurisa came out.

0:45.8

I'm also, would be remiss if I don't mention how surprised liberals are

0:54.0

when they meet me to find out, um, that I'm not

0:57.5

conservative and conservatives, um, much to their surprise, find out that, um, I'm not conservative. Um, and vice

1:07.1

versa. Um, when I just say, hey, man, I just want to be left out of it because I want to be

1:12.5

free to have, I want to be unattached. That's what the Buddha says, unattached. I am unattached.

1:21.7

I don't care enough, especially after you have children. I don't care enough. I'll flow whichever way it flows.

1:29.6

So if the alternative comedians who are really leaning liberal and are liberal are making a

1:36.5

comeback right now and they're striking, I'll go that way if they win. But obviously,

1:42.7

what I'm seeing here is, boy, do we got ourselves a nice little Westside

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