A handful of big-name comedians have made their way to Saudi Arabia for the royal family-funded Riyadh Comedy Festival, but there’s one glaring problem with, well, the entire premise of their participation. But after publicly joking about slavery in Saudi Arabia, his offer was rescinded. And even Saudi Arabia’s long history of human rights abuses didn’t stop some high-grossing comedians. Well, they’ll cut your clit off, bitch.’”But these comedians’ willingness to give up their free speech in exchange for a paycheck comes at a rather unfortunate time. “A lot of the ‘you can’t say anything anymore!’ Comedians are doing the festival,” comedian Atsuko Okatsuka, who turned down an offer to perform at the festival, wrote on Threads.