{"id":282998,"date":"2025-09-30T21:05:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-the-riyadh-comedy-festival-is-more-than-just-comics-making-a-few-jokes\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:05:05","slug":"why-the-riyadh-comedy-festival-is-more-than-just-comics-making-a-few-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-the-riyadh-comedy-festival-is-more-than-just-comics-making-a-few-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Riyadh Comedy Festival is more than just comics making a few jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/I-6rCxpnwxU\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why the Riyadh Comedy Festival is more than just comics making a few jokes\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-6rCxpnwxU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper breaks down how the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia is more than just a big topic of debate inside the comedy industry. Geopolitics and the kingdom\u2019s \u201cbrutal repression of free speech\u201d as Human Rights Watch puts it, contextualize the decision by comedians to perform at the festival. #cnn #news #shorts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper breaks down how the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia is more than just a big topic of debate inside the comedy industry. Geopolitics and the kingdom\u2019s \u201cbrutal repression of free speech\u201d as Human Rights Watch puts it, contextualize the decision by comedians to perform at the festival. #cnn #news #shorts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":282999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[128862,129211,129212],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-282998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-cnns","tag-jake","tag-tapper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why the Riyadh Comedy Festival is more than just comics making a few jokes | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why the Riyadh Comedy Festival is more than just comics making a few jokes for free, here on News ISC. 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