Photo: Riyadh Comedy Festival Back in May, head of the Saudi Arabian Entertainment Authority Turki Al-Sheikh announced the country’s plans to host a gigantic international comedy festival featuring the “best 50 stand-up comedians in the world.” By all indications, the festival’s organizers made a sincere attempt to deliver on this lofty promise, assembling a lineup of, if not the best comedians in the world, certainly the most famous. Four months later, the Riyadh Comedy Festival kicks off on