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Okatsuka previously posted the Riyadh contract from her own offer for the festival, which
included a long list of “censorship rules forbidding jokes that criticize Saudi Arabia or its royal
family. Tim Dillon was dropped from the festival for joking about the country’s “slaves” ahead of
the event, but he said he'd been offered $375,000 for one performance and other comedians were
offered as much as $1.6 million (via NPR). Pete Davidson, who has caught particular heat due to
the Saudi regime’s connection to the 9/11 terrorist attack that killed his father, said he was
unbothered by the criticism and conspiracies kicked up by the festival. “I get the routing, and T
see the number, and I go, “I'll go,” he said during an appearance on Theo Von's podcast.
Okatsuka previously posted the Riyadh contract from her own offer for the festival, which included a long list of “censorship rules forbidding jokes that criticize Saudi Arabia or its royal family. Tim Dillon was dropped from the festival for joking about the country’s “slaves” ahead of the event, but he said he'd been offered $375,000 for one performance and other comedians were offered as much as $1.6 million (via NPR). Pete Davidson, who has caught particular heat due to the Saudi regime’s connection to the 9/11 terrorist attack that killed his father, said he was unbothered by the criticism and conspiracies kicked up by the festival. “I get the routing, and T see the number, and I go, “I'll go,” he said during an appearance on Theo Von's podcast.