{"id":194914,"date":"2025-12-02T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=194914"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:16:05","slug":"the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=194914","title":{"rendered":"The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Schwartz<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.<\/p>\n<p>The post The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia appeared first on The Nation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/comedy-saudi-arabia-human-rights\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Schwartz It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia.jpg",1440,907,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia-768x484.jpg",640,403,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia-1024x645.jpg",640,403,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia.jpg",1440,907,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia.jpg",1440,907,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia-1024x645.jpg",1024,645,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/194914-the-sad-spectacle-of-american-comedians-selling-out-in-saudi-arabia-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}