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As the first-ever Riyadh Comedy Festival drew to a close last week, a debate raged across entertainment as to whether the free speech warriors who’ve decried cancel culture in their stand-up gigs — from Dave Chappelle to Bill Burr — were being rank hypocrites by renting their comedy talent to a repressive Islamic regime.  “How can any of us take any of you seriously ever again?” comedian David Cross wrote in an open letter last week that tore into the participating comedians. “All of your

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