• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Did he actually make any references to trans issues? Are there recordings of this comedy festival?

    I ask because that line "my anti-trans jokes went over very well in Saudi Arabia” sounds to me like an intentional troll, a way to say that he got to talk about whatever he wants while poking fun at the controversy he stirred up a few years ago. As a joke in and of itself, that works even if he didn’t actually have any trans jokes in his set.

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      5 hours ago

      a way to say that he got to talk about whatever he wants

      I can’t tell if your serious but he absolutely did not get to talk about what ever he wanted. Their jokes were limited and had to be vetted beforehand.

      He actually got to talk about whatever he wanted in America. He just didn’t like people telling him his jokes were bad and he was being bigoted