Jimmy Kimmel grilled Aziz Ansari about his choice to perform at Saudi Arabia’s state-sponsored Riyadh Comedy Festival despite that country’s government doing “a lot of horrible, horrible things.”

Ansari was in the hot seat for his first late-night TV appearance since his #MeToo scandal broke in 2018, as Kimmel prodded him about the festival, which also included Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Pete Davidson, and more American performers.

“People are questioning why you would go over there and take their money to perform in front of these people,” Kimmel said. “This is something that’s become a big part of the news because people, a lot of comedians especially, are very upset because the people who paid the comedians to come to this are not good people. It’s a pretty brutal regime.

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