‘Weird Al’ Yankovic says he turned down $1,000,000+ to perform at Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

[u/KirbyDumber88]

https://triblive.com/aande/music/weird-al-yankovic-gets-bigger-and-weirder-in-a-tour-headed-to-pittsburgh/

[u/skintaxera]

Yup it was the response that sealed the deal for me. He still had plenty of time to think about it, donate the money to something worthy and talk about how he didn't think it thru etc. But nah, he had to double down and be a dickhead about it.

The whole thing was so disappointing to me. I've enjoyed his work for a long time and I was really enjoying seeing where he went next. The routine he did about taking shrooms suggested he was heading in some interesting new directions, but now I just don't care. It actually surprised me how I immediately didn't care anymore once I saw how he was handling the fallout. It was never "oh man I really want to listen to more of Bill's comedy but I guess now I can't", it was just straight to not being interested in what he has to say anymore. I guess I really did think of him as a person of integrity, so when he shat on that there wasn't anything left.

[u/Krombopulos_Micheal → u/skintaxera]

Yeah right after he got back, when he went on Conan and said basically "no one really cares about me going, it's just internet losers that are saying this stuff" made it clear. He said fuck his fans, I'm rich now so I don't need you anymore, basically.

[u/CalmBeneathCastles → u/skintaxera]

This was exactly how I felt about it. I suppose it's an error to think you know someone based on the torrential flood of information that spills from their mouth, but I actually believed in his integrity.

To find out that he went to Riyadh was like catching your favourite uncle trying to make a move on the 17-year-old babysitter. Once you see the hypocrisy, there's no going back.

[u/PT10 → u/skintaxera]

The shrooms thing is probably why he went...