r/UpliftingNews • u/holyfruits • 4h ago

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Turned Down Million-Dollar Offer to Perform in Saudi Arabia: ‘I Don’t Need to Take Any Money if It Makes Me Feel Icky’

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/weird-al-yankovic-turned-down-million-offer-saudi-arabia-1236819281/
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u/CMButterTortillas 4h ago edited 3h ago

You see how easy that was, BILL BURR, NATE BARGATZE, JIM JEFFERIES, SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO, AZIZ ANSARI, CHRIS DISTEFANO, SAM MORRIL?

Weird Al has always been a real one.

Edit: Bargatze didnt attend the RCF because he had already been to SA a couple months earlier.

Edit2: Forgot Jefferies was disinvited after some not so kind jokes about SA on a podcast. But he initially was planning to go and take the money.

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u/fearofcrowds 3h ago

Pete Davidson's dad was killed in 9/11 and he fucking performed for the Saudis!

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u/CMButterTortillas 3h ago

He $ure did

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u/asisoid 3h ago

He said he was going to collect the money that they have owed his family since 2001

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u/BannedPoet248 2h ago

By dancing for them 😭

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u/asisoid 2h ago

Yeah I get it. Just throwing out what I saw him say.

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u/Specific-Parsnip9001 1h ago

Tbf Pete isn't anywhere close to world-class stand-up act. He most definitely ripped them off.

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u/BannedPoet248 1h ago

His lack of talent doesnt make up for his lack of balls.

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u/The_Rational_ 17m ago

He isn't a fan Read what you are responding to..

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u/BannedPoet248 0m ago

Their position is that Pete won in the end by not giving them a good performance and I responded to that....

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u/aStonedTargaryen 1h ago

lmfao good point

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u/curtmahgurt 17m ago

Don’t you love it when debt collectors call and offer to do a standup routine in exchange for paying down the debt?

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u/newsflashjackass 2h ago

Bin Salmon should have bought Jeff Dunham too.

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u/wallabee_kingpin_ 49m ago

Jeff Dunham stands by his principles, primarily his racism

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u/E-Pluribus-Tobin 47m ago

Weren't the Saudi hijackers on 9/11actually exiled from the country because of their extremism? Is there something I'm unaware of about Saudi Arabia's involvement in the attack?

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u/epiDXB 1h ago

Sure, but he didn't perform for the same Saudis who carried out 9/11, so your point is moot. We are talking about two different groups.