The the recent Riyadh Comedy Festival controversy made its way to Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week.

Aziz Ansari , one of the 50 or so comedians that traveled to Saudi Arabia to perform for what was billed as “the world’s largest comedy festival,” stopped by Kimmel’s late night show to promote his new Lionsgate comedy Good Fortune . And the host tackled the storm head on.

“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,” Kimmel said in broaching the subject before referencing the kingdom’s history of oppression and human rights abuses. “It’s a pretty brutal regime. They’ve done a lot of horrible, horrible things. People are questioning

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