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Just months ago, <\/span>Bill Burr <\/span><\/a>was the \u201cFree Luigi,\u201d \u201cbillionaires are rabid dogs,\u201d iconoclastic king of using comedy to speak truth to power. Now, Burr is the court jester for actual kings, and his non-billionaire fans aren\u2019t laughing.<\/span><\/p>\n This past weekend, Burr, along with a stacked lineup of superstar American stand-ups eager to sell their backbone to a foreign power, performed at the <\/span>Riyadh Comedy Festival <\/span><\/a>in front of an esteemed audience that included many members of the Saudi Royal Family, who funded the event and who personally cut the checks for the imported artists. Despite how humanitarian groups such as <\/span>Human Rights Watch <\/span><\/a>urged America\u2019s biggest comedy stars not to participate in the whitewashing of horrific, systematic and intensifying abuses of human rights committed by the Saudi Royals, Burr and his buddies went ahead and let Saudi Arabia use their names, likenesses and integrity to cover up crimes against humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n During his first episode of\u00a0Monday Morning Podcast\u00a0<\/i>following his Riyadh performance, <\/span>Burr praised the Saudi Royal Family <\/span><\/a>for putting on such a special event and writing such a special check to their American meatshields, calling it \u201cone of the top three experiences I\u2019ve ever had\u201d and bragging that, \u201cThe Royals loved the show. Everyone was happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Well, everyone except for Bill\u2019s American fans and the literal slaves owned by his new masters.<\/span><\/p>\nDon’t Miss<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n