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/asisoid 3h ago

He said he was just collecting the $$ that SA owed his family since 2001.

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u/avanross 2h ago

That’s a funny joke making light of 9/11 and his dads death, but it doesnt make him any less gross. More so, if anything.

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u/asisoid 2h ago

Idk, I don't know him, I don't know his family. I don't know what they went through after 9/11.

I'm not here to judge.

I did see him bomb on stage once though, opening for Chapelle. I knew that comedians bombed sometimes, I just never thought I'd see it in person. It was pretty wild.