{"id":1693,"date":"2025-10-06T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2025-10-06T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T01:05:24","slug":"at-saudi-comedy-fest-american-free-speech-becomes-the-punchline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>For weeks, ridicule poured in against the American comedians set to perform this week in Saudi Arabia \u2014 a country not known for its civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>But by the time they took to the stage, the comedians had turned the joke on U.S. free speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you\u2019ll get canceled,\u201d the comedian Dave Chappelle quipped on Saturday at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the first event of its kind in Saudi Arabia. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/news\/2025-10-05-0603\/culture-saudi-comedy-fest-american-free-speech-becomes-punchline\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For weeks, ridicule poured in against the American comedians set to perform this week in Saudi Arabia \u2014 a country not known for its civil liberties. But by the time they took to the stage, the comedians had turned the joke on U.S. free speech. \u201cRight now in America, they say that if you talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}