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The Washington Post editorial board on Tuesday shredded the stand-up comedians who worked at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia, calling it a "bad joke" that they took money from a repressive regime.

In its latest editorial, the board rebuked the roughly 50 comics — including Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Whitney Cummings and Bill Burr — who accepted lucrative paychecks from a nation long criticized for censorship and human rights abuses .

"Fifty comedians walk into a repressive Gulf kingdom. That sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. But there is little funny about some of the best-known Western comics trekking to Saudi Arabia, collecting large paychecks and agreeing to censor themselves at the Riyadh Comedy

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