Le Show For The Week Of October 5, 2025
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is! |
| 0:02.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice. |
| 0:09.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, time for news of the land of 4,000 princes. |
| 0:16.0 | Our food-loving friends in Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:19.0 | Uh-uh. |
| 0:20.0 | La-na-na-la-la-na-na-na-na. Our food loving friends in Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, you may have heard about all this already. |
| 0:39.8 | It's billed as the biggest comedy festival in the world. It's the inaugural Riyadh comedy festival, capital of Saudi Arabia. It's running, started September 26th. |
| 0:48.5 | It's still running for like another week. Feature some of the biggest names in U.S. comedy, it says here in The Guardian, such as |
| 0:58.1 | Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K. |
| 1:01.3 | I got something to show you, Lewis. |
| 1:03.5 | Kevin Hart. |
| 1:05.8 | How you, Kay's Bank? |
| 1:07.7 | That Kevin Hart. |
| 1:09.3 | And more. |
| 1:14.9 | They're taking their fees directly from the Saudi government well who else the events producers include SILA a live events company |
| 1:22.9 | just happened to be owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and the Kingdom's General |
| 1:28.5 | Entertainment Authority, chaired by a royal advisor whose dog by allegations of human rights violations, |
| 1:35.2 | including the detention of people who criticize him on social media. |
| 1:39.1 | The U.S.-based talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, and Bruce Hills, the former president of the famed |
| 1:46.9 | Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, also involved as consultants and producers. |
| 1:54.3 | Comedians have already received criticism from Human Rights Watch, which argued that the festival is an effort |
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