While headlining Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival on Saturday (via The New York Times ), comedy giant Dave Chappelle deliberated over the do’s and don’ts of free speech in America, deeming it “easier to talk” in the Middle Eastern nation than back home in the States.

“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle said. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.”

“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America,” he added.

Chappelle later said he was nervous to return to the U.S. because “they’re going to do something to me so that I can’t say what I want to say.”

The Riyadh Comedy Festival has drawn scathing criticism from several American comedians. David Cross released a statement on Monday shaming Chappelle

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