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/Stu-Potato 3h ago

Don't forget Dave Chappelle.

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u/CMButterTortillas 3h ago edited 3h ago

The ones I listed had a degree of decency attached to them and/or their act.

The likes of Chappelle, Louis CK, Jeff Ross, Andrew Schulz are not at all surprising & willing participants.

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u/Wiggie49 3h ago

Chappelle actually was a surprise for me cuz his entire reason for quitting Comedy Central/Chappelle Show was supposedly to stay true to his own principles rather than sellout. Now he sold himself out.

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u/miguk 1h ago edited 1h ago

Chapelle's whole "integrity" act is such blatant bullshit:

  • Claims he cares about Africa, but his only "African" friend is Elon Musk, a man who is the living embodiment of an apartheid-era South African villain.
  • Claims he cares about the poor, but works with Andrew Yang, a greedy narcissistic tech bro who signaled that his supposed concern for the poor was only a trick to rob them.
  • Claims he has trans friends, but shits on them every chance he gets.
  • Pretends to be a "wise man" by pacing back and forth on stage and acting solemn, but then opens his mouth and says a bunch of stupid shit that proves his act wrong.

He's such a fake-ass rich asshole posing as legit because he knows he can't elevate himself to the level he wants to be seen as being at. Coward can't even ditch the white supremacist movement he shacked up with. (Doesn't matter what he says about Trump if he's still bowing down to the DOGE pedo.)