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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I have enough moral to look the other way, away from these so called sell out comedians.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

they Lie, they dint pay 10s of millions. its a grift, in order to get more paying gigs by SA in the future. most of them were paid less than 1mil

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

“One reporter was killed by the government – unfortunate, but not a fucking hill that I’m gonna die on,” Jim Jefferies said on Theo Von’s podcast in August, arguing it is for the greater good that “freedom-of-speech machines” such as himself bestow their “edgy” material on the kingdom and its subjects. (Since making the comments, Jefferies has since disappeared from the festival’s lineup; his representatives did not respond to inquiries about this.)

lol

How high is that number? According to Dillon, pretty high: in the same podcast that got him fired, he said the organizers offered him $375,000 and claimed that some comedians were offered millions. Gillis did not reveal how much the organizers offered him, but he did say that when he initially refused, they “doubled the bag”. Tough news for Dillon, who elsewhere claimed he asked for $500,000 but had to settle for less.

[Nimesh Patel] suggested that he could make up for the loss by performing “40 shows … here in the perfectly clean, moral, above-everyone-else United States of America.”

Would be funny if any of these comedians accepted but did a shit job on purpose to get booed off stage, then just explained that stunt as "giving their money's worth"

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If you do know any of them somehow you might want to refuse any of their gift from now on if you believe it's from dirty money.

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