A Saudi dissident weighs in on comedy festival controversy

This week is supposed to be all laughs in Saudi Arabia's capital, where the Riyadh Comedy Festival is entering its second week. It's billing itself as the world's biggest comedy festival" - and big names are headlining. But Abdullah Alaoudh told The World's Host Marco Werman that the event sits uncomfortably alongside the Saudi government's notorious human rights abuses. The senior director on Countering Authoritarianism at the Middle East Democracy Center in Washington explains that the event is a state-funded distraction from the government's human rights abuses.