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Comedy is all about speaking truth to power. That’s why, this weekend, you’ll find America’s hottest knee-slappers jet-setting to Saudi Arabia. The Riyadh Comedy Festival kicks off today in the nation’s capital with an absurdly heavy-hitting lineup: Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari, and Louis C.K., just to name a few. See, “woke” might have killed free speech in Brooklyn, but it appears to be alive and well in Saudi Arabia—a country whose “years-since-last-executing-a-journalist counter” never seems to reach the double digits.
"I think in a strange way, an uncomfortable conversation is one of the many things our film is about,” Edebiri said during a panel at the New York Film Festival.
In a polarized environment, the elevation of a figure into a saint does more than honor the individual. It turns a political struggle into a sacred one.