Comment on I love Comedy!

MrSelfDestruct@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He’s the textbook definition of centrist.

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  • abc@suppo.fi ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A great guy?

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• jorymo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ol’ Bonesaw Billy

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• trojanbark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I do not know anything about him, why do some people have a negative opinion of him?

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  • sas41@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bill’s entire stage persona has been that of an everyman. While his material is diverse, it’s mostly observational comedy, and he regularly criticized the rich along with celebrities that perform for morally dubious people.

    Some months ago, the Saudi Government hosted a comedy festival, and flew out pretty much all the big names, Bill included.

    So the man who partially built his career on being observant, relatable and joking about celebrities who perform for dictators, went and performed for a defacto dictatorship.

    After receiving massive backlash, he first tried to wash it on various interviews as some sort of “for the Saudi people, not the Saudi government” bs, which nobody bought, so he pivoted to antagonizing his critics (his own audience) like he does to hecklers.

    He is the only comedian whose work I cared about that went, and I held him in very high regard, but nobody should separate the art from the artist while the artist is still alive. He likely doesn’t need the money, so it’s safe to say it was motivated by greed, he contributed to the culture washing of a regime that murders people on the regular, including chopping up journalists in their own embassies.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “for the Saudi people, not the Saudi government”

      Lol, I don’t think there even is a “Saudi people”. It’s just thousands of royal family members and slaves.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Holy fuck, nobody is ever pure enough, eh.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh my god shut the fuck up.

        The guy made his entire persona a set of standards. Then he violated and did the exact thing he criticized and mocked others for doing as soon as the dumptruck full of money got full enough.

        Thats not purity, thats proper deserved criticism.

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      • crandall@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m just curious and not trying to be antagonistic: you don’t mind an artist (who has enough money to pass) selling out to a dictator?

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    • innerwar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well said as to the complexities

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    • trojanbark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is sad and awful. What a shitty guy

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  • jorymo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In spite of him being very outspoken about beliefs like in the post, he got paid to do a comedy festival openly put on by the Saudi government to try and launder their image.

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    • trojanbark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is disgusting. Thank you for letting me know

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• Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ole Billy Bonesaw

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