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Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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Honestly if he had just come out and said "They paid me an ungodly amount of money for this gig, I had to take it." I can understand that justification. Don't sit here and pee in my face and tell me it's raining.
I still wouldn't get it. He has a regular high income, great wife and family - and an estimated net wealth of $30mil.
Couldn't justify this gig unless it was literally billions that he immediately donated to worthy causes.
That's what I don't understand about people like this.
Why go through all this effort, all the stress, hearing everything people say about you being a sellout rat, for what? Is he sitting there going "I can afford a $300,000 car, but if I'm not able to get a $1 million dollar supercar I just don't know how I'm going to cope".
I swear it's a mental illness, like gambling addiction. Just an obsession with wanting a number to go up more and more.