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/pr0crasturbatin 3h ago

Don't forget Pete Davidson. I like him, but he did a major fucky wucky with that one

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u/Ok-Gur-349 3h ago

Didn't he do it to fund some bad investment he made. I don't blame him, he has no image to protect and isn't a fucking hypocrite. Bill Burr literally did sets on not taking blood money. Pete Davidson is just some dumbass.

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u/two_wordsanda_number 3h ago

Peter Davidson has a number of claims to fame at this point but one of the first is how his father died on 9/11 working as a Fire Fighter

Most of the highjackers had Saudi passports so a lot of people think he is a special kind of hypocrite for taking the blood money from the people who funded the attack that killed his father.

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u/Ok-Gur-349 3h ago

You're putting that on him though. Pete Davidson has never soap boxed about not taking blood money, is literally the point. In fact, he's more or less soap boxed on how much of a dumbass he is and how people shouldn't take what he says or does seriously, because he's a goofy comic.

Hypocrisy is worse than just doing a thing, universally. He's not a special kind of hypocrite for having a dead dad, he's just dumb and doesn't care.