‘Bill Cosby’s Been Added to the Lineup!’: Tim Heidecker Roasts A-List Stand-Ups for Playing A Saudi Arabian Comedy Festival
Bill Cosby is going to be disappointed when he finds out that Saudi Arabia frowns upon both ingredients in his signature cocktail.
America’s most popular and respected comedians are scheduled to perform at a festival that the Saudi Royal Family has organized with the express purpose of advancing their Saudi Vision 2030 campaign to change the country’s global image and turn it into an international entertainment hub. The Riyadh Comedy Festival, which will start in September and run into October, will feature such A-list talent as Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Tom Segura, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, Andrew Schulz and many, many more internationally successful entertainers who will no doubt cash massive checks in exchange for laundering the reputation of the journalist-murdering, terrorist-funding, human-rights-hating Saudi Royal Family.
As loyal servants to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, who is perhaps best known to American comedy fans for being the guy who personally ordered the brutal assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Burr, Hart, Segura and the rest of the Riyadh Comedy Festival lineup should be excited to hear that they’ll be joined by a couple more morally bankrupt comedy giants during their pilgrimage to the birthplace of the 9/11 attacks.
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According to Tim Heidecker, disgraced comedy sex pests Cosby and Woody Allen will make rare public appearances at the Riyadh Comedy Festival — and, in case Saudi Arabia’s torture practices weren’t notorious enough, audiences will be subjected to a set from Carlos Mencia as well.
Despite sporting one of the most abhorrent human rights records of any close American ally and trade partner, Saudi Arabia has, thus far, been successful in its efforts to improve its international reputation that’s long been stained by brutal oppression and human trafficking. Specifically, Saudi Vision 2030 has made its strides by using its oil money to traffic in sports superstars and entertainers from across the world for special events like The Riyadh Comedy Festival — for instance, soccer sensation Cristiano Ronaldo is currently the captain of the Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr.
Then, this fall, Burr, Hart and the rest of America’s already-too-rich comedy A-list will presumably audition to fill the coveted position of the Saudi Royal Family’s court jester. However, if Heidecker’s “reporting” is correct, the Riyadh Comedy Festival’s American headliners will have some steep competition in the morally bankrupt comedy royale, now that Cosby and Allen are in the hunt to claim that mountain of blood money.
Burr and his buddies should stay wary if Cosby ever wants to celebrate the festival with a toast.
