{"id":5401,"date":"2025-09-23T22:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tim-dillon-fired-riyadh-comedy-festival-saudi-slavery\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:34:22","slug":"tim-dillon-fired-riyadh-comedy-festival-saudi-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tim-dillon-fired-riyadh-comedy-festival-saudi-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Dillon Fired From Riyadh Comedy Festival for Saudi Slavery Remarks: \u2018They Didn\u2019t Like\u00a0That\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tTim Dillon will not be traveling to the Riyadh Comedy Festival next month. The California comedian and host of The Tim Dillon Show<\/em> podcast says he was fired from the Oct. 8 Saudi Arabia festival for comments he made about the country on Joe Rogan<\/a>\u2018s podcast.<\/p>\n

\n\tBesides losing a $375,000 payday (an amount Dillon confirmed to Rogan), he also lost a nearby warm-up gig in Dubai two nights before his Riyadh appearance after mixing up the Arab emirate with Abu Dhabi (the rival cities are both part of the United Arab Emirates).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI mixed them up \u2014 apparently this is a big deal over there. This is a real problem,\u201d he said on a recent episode of his podcast. \u201cThis is not a malicious slander. It\u2019s a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Riyadh Comedy Festival \u2014 which mostly takes place at the Bakr Al-Sheddi Theatre and ANB Arena from Sept. 25 to Oct. 9, features a number of top tier comedians including Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Gabriel Iglesias, Aziz Ansari, Kevin Hart, Jeff Ross, Chris Distefano, Tom Segura, Jo Koy, Sam Morril, Hannibal Buress, Andrew Schultz, Sebastian Maniscalco, Whitney Cummings, Jimmy Carr, Louis CK, Pete Davidson, Russell Peters and Chris Tucker.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSupposedly, MBS is a fan of mine,\u201d Dillon said two weeks ago on the Joe Rogan Experience<\/em> podcast, referring to Saudi head of state Mohammed Bin Salman.<\/p>\n

\n\tDillon was reportedly fired from the festival for claiming that Saudi Arabia relies on slave labor \u2014 a controversial take on the country\u2019s foreign laborers laws that some groups, including Human Rights Watch, have criticized as \u201cslavery-like.\u201d Legally, slavery was abolished in the Kingdom in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDillon said the slavery jokes were a misunderstanding with his Saudi hosts, saying on his podcast, \u201cI was defending them for having slaves. I literally said, \u2018Slaves are hard workers and for the most part agreeable.\u2019 But they didn\u2019t like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou can literally support somebody too much,\u201d he added. \u201cIn life, this happens. Too many compliments; too much support \u2014 and then they turn on you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe clarified his comments further, noting, \u201cIf i was a slave \u2014 not that I want to be one, but if I was and I built this really nice thing, I might say to my slave children, \u2018Daddy built that,’\u201d concluding, \u201cApparently this got to the people in Saudi Arabia and they were unhappy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Riyadh Comedy Festival opens Sept. 25 with performances by Burr, Maz Jobrani and Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee from the Bad Friends <\/em>podcast. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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