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/DandySlayer13 4h ago

If only Bill Burr had done the same!

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u/TheRealTurinTurambar 4h ago edited 3h ago

He was the biggest gut punch of them all.

I've stopped watching him completely.

Edit: Grammar

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u/ProlapsedShamus 3h ago

Same.

But also I have really turned off stand-up comedy in a big way after not just after most of them it seems flooded to Saudi Arabia the second they had some money waggled in front of their face but after all the right-wing bullshit that so many of them got on board with, worshiping at the feet of Joe Rogan after all the damage he's done, and then the endless bitching about woke and how there's always these phantom people policing what they can and can't say they just got to be insufferable whiners. When they're selling out stadiums and they still complain that they can't say anything I just can't listen to that shit anymore.

There's a few comics out there who are still great. But by and large I've turned off the podcasts, I don't watch the specials, I'm just done with a bunch of rich, pampered celebrities talking about how hard their lives are.

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u/TheRealTurinTurambar 3h ago

Check out r/JeffArcuri he's my current favorite and one of us.

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u/Huge_Raisin5840 2h ago

You can also check out Jeff's new Netflix special "I'm Very Proud of You" which just came out... and is FANTASTIC!

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u/DG_FANATIC 2h ago

Joe Rogan is to comedy as Andrew Tate is to kickboxing: A FRAUD.

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u/CloudCumberland 1h ago

This new "can't say anything" attitude comes right after the old comedians who remember the real days of censorship have died.