I just had a weird moment like this. I had a handyman come by and fix some stuff, and one of the things I had on the list was a cabinet hinge. I didn’t look at it myself but I assumed that it was just a loose screw that needed tightening and he could knock it out since he was going to be around anyway.
After he checks it out he tells me the hinge is actually broken. So I said to him “This happened once before, these exact hinges are hard to find, so I just went to a cabinet that we don’t use much and took the hinge off of that and then used it to replace a different broken hinge. Let me figure out which cabinet we can steal one from. You know, we did a big remodel a while back and we ripped out all the cabinets, what I should have done is saved some of those hinges in case this happened…”
And then mid sentence, I realized that I know I thought of that when the demo was taking place and maybe I actually did it. So I head to the garage and spend 10 minutes trying to figure out where I would have stored these spare hinges that I may or may not have saved. After 10 min, I found several of them in the back of a drawer where I’d put them six years ago. Felt like I won the fucking lottery.
No idea what thread would be best for this, but who else is excited for the Riyadh Comedy Festival?
Lots of comics here I have trouble blaming. Like what do we think Jeff Ross is going to say to a big payday. Obviously Chappelle is gonna do Chappelle - not excusing him, fuck him, but expecting anything different from him would be silly. Nimesh Patel is definitely disappointing. Bill Burr, come on man. I could see either of those guys saying “fuck it” and saying something that gets them deported in which case I will retract my criticism.
Here is a small collection of a few of the comedians commenting on the issue. The most common rationalization seems to be that everyone is terrible, might as well take the Saudi money because it’s not that much dirtier than anyone else’s.
Jefferies: Now people have been going, “Oh, how dare you go over there after, oh, they killed a reporter.” That was the big one. There’s been a reporter who they killed. You don’t think our governments fucking bump people? Oh, I think Jeffrey Epstein was fucking bumped off. You know what I mean?
Von: Oh, I’m sure that every place, we’ve damaged a lot of places.
Jefferies: Yeah, yeah. One reporter was killed by the government. Unfortunate, but not a fucking hill that I’m gonna die on.
When America had the perception of moral superiority, you can take a stand and not go to KSA to do a comedy show. But when Donald Trump is your president and you’re descending into fascism, don’t be surprised when foreign performers skip over America for their own political reasons.
It’s a staple. I hear it every time one of these dumbshits tries to minimize how bad slavery was. I’m running out of patience and getting close to unloading on these bitches.