The Riyadh Comedy Festival
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413
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| 0:53.6 | Welcome to a very special episode of It Could Happen here, reporting live from the sunny beaches of Riyadh. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm Garrison Davis. |
| 1:03.7 | This episode, I'm joined by Mia Wong, James Stout, and presenting our special report, Robert Evans. |
| 1:09.1 | I am so happy to talk about our favorite time of the year, |
| 1:13.2 | which is, of course, the Riyadh Comedy Festival, |
| 1:16.3 | which occurs from September 26th to October 9th. |
| 1:19.5 | It's the highlight of my year each year. |
| 1:21.9 | Yep. |
| 1:22.6 | Happy to say all of Cool Zone will be there, |
| 1:25.8 | performing in Riyadh, immediately getting arrested. |
| 1:29.9 | It's going to be really good, very much excited. |
| 1:34.1 | Like all of your comedy favorites, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, |
| 1:40.5 | we will be getting paid hundreds of thousands or over a million dollars to pretend that the |
| 1:45.4 | Saudi regime does not execute dissidents, reporters, civil rights activists, whoever, and |
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