Depends. He can always just do the “they’re trying to cancel me” pivot towards a right wing audience, which seems to be the solution for these kinds of people in that situation.
If you listen to his podcast he is constantly railing against billionaires. He honestly seems kind of alright. When I heard he was doing a show in Riyadh I swear I had to do a double take.
Wtf Bill. Did you really need the money that bad? Was it worth your integrity?
Not really defending it but those in charge over there allegedly are the most “progressive” ever for the region. Granted that is a very low bar and they still have some very brutal laws from what I understand
hes an opportunists.
yes
He’s dead to me until he acknowledges that he sold his values for money.
why dont he just say what pete davidson said, they paid me to look the other way.
YeahprobablyHe better have made enough that he can disappear
May as well be. Never watching him again. May as well have performed for trump and the rest of his orangunazis.
he sold out. just like they all do.
He even predicted it himself in one of his specials when talking about Beyonce doing it
I won’t say destroyed but severely injured sure. Maimed maybe.
Like CK lewis, he can be partially cancelled, but he never truley went away. enough of the manosphere loves him to sustain his depravity. bill burr fans are wrestling with liking him and ditching him.
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The part of the US government that is replicating the values of the Saudi Arabian dictatorship in the United States is the Trump administration. Yes, everyone opposed to this also treats anyone who has taken money to further the Trump administration’s agenda as a pariah. Many of Trump’s shitheels have taken to covering their face to avoid the social consequences due to this extremely popular trend of moral consistency.
…lol.
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I’ve yet to see such deliberation over artists or others that have performed for Trumps administration.
I just think you haven’t been paying attention.
3 Doors Down lost a lot of credibility with their base for playing Trump’s inauguration. Even the Mormon Tabernacle Choir received condemnation from their fans, with some choristers speaking out and at least one resigning. Tasteless artists like Lee Greenwood, whose fans couldn’t fill a stadium, became the butt of jokes for their participation.
These performers may not be as widely known as say someone like Bill Burr but I concede the point that some efforts are being made domestically. Keep at it.
I will now delete my prior messages as I will be traveling to the US in the future. That should tell anyone reading this what they need to know about the current state of free speech in the US.
Just so you know, given the nature of the fediverse, deleting something may not be as secure as you’d like.
Maybe he just wants to shit all over Saudi Arabia in front of their faces and get paid in the process.
Considering it’s already over and he talked about how “they are just like us”, but also confirmed jokes about the Saudi royals and Islam were off limits, I don’t think that happened.
he cant, one of the stipulations for being at the SA FESTIVAL, is not criticizing SA in anyway, they gave the rules to him beforehand.
Depends if he shows contrition or not. Possible that he didn’t fully understand, though I doubt it.
Possible that he didn’t fully understand
No, that is not a possibility.
You’re not him and you weren’t fed the propganda he was fed. Might have seemed a good idea at the time. I will not judge.
Let’s see what he has to say after the fact. Then we can judge.
I guess I’ll just have to take your word for it that all participants understood the context and implications fully. Unfortunately that comes with the side effect of meaning none of the participant could grow or change their positions on the matter because they already have, apparently, all of the underlying knowledge. Maybe.
No.
I don’t get why he was ever lauded at all. Not very funny, just a regular asshole.
Same. Someone told me to watch one of his specials and it opened with him punching down on trans folk. Fuck him.
I love his comedy. He hits topics many are too timid to approach. He often comes off, “Oh hell no he ain’t goin’ there!”, and then flips the script, or takes an unexpected turn.
“WOMEN! What the fuck is wrong with these people?!” Then he hits how our expectations clash, how clueless men and women can both be when judging one another’s behavior. And he’s not afraid to include himself on the dumbass side of any given rant.
At it’s heart, that’s what comedy is, subverting expectations.
So, I had to explain the joke, comedy death, he’s not for you, and that’s fine.
BTW, my wife won’t watch him, doesn’t comment, just doesn’t like him. Her English ain’t so hot, but I think the man’s humor is the issue. 🤷🏻
