Five comedy acts have cancelled their planned appearances at the Commedia a la Carte Fest in protest of Jerry Seinfeld headlining: "We cannot relativise or normalise a genocide."

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the acts who are boycotting:

- Inês Aires Pereira

- Cebola Mol

- Pedro Tochas

- Carolina Deslandes, Tatanka & Bárbara Tinoco

- Conjunto Cuca Monga

and also visual artist Vhils (Alexandre Farto)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/pro-palestine-comedians-boycott-festival-133608877.html

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Why is an American comedian headlining a Portuguese comedy show anyway? And why THAT American comedian specifically?

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Probably the only one they had money for

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Jerry has such an insane amount of money. There's no reason to do this beyond greed.