Omid Djalili responds to criticism of his decision to perform at a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia What the critics of the Riyadh comedy festival may have missed (Letters, 13 October) is the fact that performing comedy or any live event in Saudi Arabia was illegal until recently. Performers and organisers would run the very real risk of imprisonment by the authorities. Now those same authorities are paying comedians …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM on October 17, 2025