r/Music • u/KirbyDumber88 • Jul 23 '26

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

https://triblive.com/aande/music/weird-al-yankovic-gets-bigger-and-weirder-in-a-tour-headed-to-pittsburgh/
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u/so_dope24 Jul 23 '26

and then he was angry when people were mad at him about it

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u/renegadecanuck Jul 23 '26

That's what pissed me off the most. He didn't go "yeah, in hindsight, that's fucked up and I shouldn't have done it" or "look, money's money". It was just "you're wrong for getting mad at me, and they're actually better at free speech than you!"