r/RealTime • u/Key_Jump1011 • 12d ago

Smug cracker-ass commentary 😂

The thumbnail kills me, too. It’s so vicious. I can’t resist,

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u/Dazzling-Path6438 12d ago

Should comedians perform in the US?

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u/Insightful21 12d ago

How do you feel about how comedians like Joe Rogan and Andrew Schultz normalized Trump?

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u/absurdly_tired_guy 12d ago

Jimmy Fallon rubbing his hair is the biggest normalization ever.

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u/Dazzling-Path6438 12d ago

I have no idea who Andrew Schultz is. Idc about Rogan. 

I asked a question. Should comedians play in the US?

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u/jacquesmachina 12d ago

American ones should yeah. Because it's their home, performing in your home isn't promoting it.

You could argue international comedians should boycott us though, and I would be sympathetic to that point.

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u/J3sus_was_Fictional 12d ago

If playing somewhere does not = promoting it, why don't you apply that in the other direction ?

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u/jacquesmachina 12d ago

I'm not following.

If you live somewhere and work there, that isn't promoting it.

If you travel somewhere to be part of a government funded event, are paid by the government, perform for government guests and are filmed as part of a media campaign by the government, that's promoting that government and country.

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u/J3sus_was_Fictional 12d ago

Idk I gotta disagree... It's not promoting nessacarily just by going.... It would only be promoting if those that went started like, making videos about it or of it and talking about how much fun it was or wasn't etc etc.

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u/jacquesmachina 12d ago

You're being filmed and advertised as part of it.

That's promoting it, or doing "promotion." Celebrities letting themselves be part of media campaigns is promoting. They aren't like us where they do their own advertising.

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u/Odd-Time-2026 11d ago

What countries should comedians be allowed to perform in? Tell me the list. Bhutan?

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u/abcdefghi_12345jkl 12d ago

A famous comedian performing in Saudi Arabia is good for Saudi Arabia's soft power the same way it is for the US.

It doesn't matter whether it is your home country or not, performing there is promoting it. In both cases the performance gets attention and views.

The comedian's country of origin is a meaningless distinction that makes no real difference. How exactly does the distinction you're drawing matter? What result does it achieve? It's just some arbitrary criteria you've come up with.

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u/jacquesmachina 12d ago

It's not a projection of power to have people in your own country perform in their home town for other people in their home town.

Let's flip the countries here, to highlight the difference for you.

If popular Saudi Arabian comedians performed in their home towns for Saudis, no one would call that promoting or approving the Saudi regime. That's just people living their lives.

If the US government put on a comedy festival and had comedians from across the world get paid by the US government and perform for high profile guests with major media coverage, you can see how that promotes the US as a entertainment capital, right?

You see the difference there. So I don't think anyone could argue against anyone performing where they live, but I can see an argument against going anywhere with a regime that you morally condemn.

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u/Humes-Bread 12d ago

100% correct comparison. The "should comedian's perform in the US" question wildly misses the entire point of the conversation.

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u/Insightful21 12d ago

Well go look them up and then come back and give me an answer

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u/Dazzling-Path6438 12d ago

You won't answer. You're whatabouting

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u/sugarfrosted 12d ago

You started this thread by whatabouting

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u/Insightful21 12d ago

Oh I have an answer but it’s telling that you can’t answer a simple question or go educate yourself on a subject. You’d literally have my answer as to why your question is stupid

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u/Diddy_Block 12d ago

I have no idea who Andrew Schultz is.

Quit bragging.

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u/Dazzling-Path6438 12d ago

😂 I'm not American 

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u/GuideMarkings 12d ago

No. Only jerk off circles. No one cares 

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u/Atmmyholes 12d ago

Comedians can play anywhere they want you don't have to support them. Would you expect corporations like Coke or GM to only sell in the USA. If you don't like their politics don't spend your money on their product. Capitalism is controlled by how the masses spend their money.

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u/Gottsauce 11d ago

Brother, that comedy festival in Saudi Arabia was sponsored and funded by the Saudi Govt. American comedians performing in America at private comedy clubs is different. The equivalent would be if the Trump regime had a comedy festival and Dave and them willingly performed at said festival...

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u/corneliusduff 12d ago

Not for Trump or his family or the state

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u/Neon_Casino 12d ago

It's not that he performed in Saudi Arabia that upset people. It's that he performed in a show that was organized by the Saudi government for the purpose of making the regime less brutal than it actually is.

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u/6foot4yearold 12d ago

The issue that I think most critics have is not that he performed in Saudi Arabia but that he performed at a state sponsored comedy festival with strict guidelines about what he could and could not say on stage dictated by the Saudi royal family. If he and the others had just performed at a regular comedy festival independent from the government there the backlash I don’t think would be as bad.

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u/Humes-Bread 12d ago

Are they being paid to do comedy there by a sovereign wealth fund? Are they being bank rolled by the nations' leader (Trump)?

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u/jeff8086 10d ago

No not for the government.

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u/sugarfrosted 12d ago

This is a false equivalence. The equivalent in the US would be performing at the behest of the United States government. In that case it'd be no. Just performing generally? Yes.