Aziz Ansari Makes a Valiant Effort to Defend Performing in Saudi Arabia

Aziz Ansari Makes a Valiant Effort to Defend Performing in Saudi Arabia

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OK, first off: Saying “I gave this a lot of thought” and “I discussed it with my wife” will not justify any decision ever . That said, Aziz Ansari did attempt to combine Louis CK’s justification (spreading freedom) with Bill Burr’s (“they’re just like us”) and mix them with Ansari’s own personal reasons (“I had an aunt who lived there” and “I’m from a Muslim background”)—with decidedly mixed results. Here it is, cued up to where Jimmy Kimmel asks the question that Ansari clearly requested he be asked:

Yes, it’s true that we shouldn’t ascribe the “worst behavior” of the Saudi Arabian government to its people, just as we shouldn’t ascribe the worst behavior of the American government to all