As Saudi Arabia’s star-studded debut comedy festival prepares to kick off this weekend, Marc Maron is one of several comedians to call out the event.

The WTF podcast host recently put his comedian peers on blast for participating in the Riyadh Comedy Festival as he joked about Saudi officials’ roles in 9/11 and the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“I mean, how do you even promote that? ‘From the folks that brought you 9/11. Two weeks of laughter in the desert, don’t miss it!'” he said in a video from a recent stand-up bit. “I mean, the same guy that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a fucking suitcase. But don’t let that stop the yucks, it’s gonna be a good time!”

Maron continued, “Full disclosure: I w

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