Bill Maher - classic!

He's willing to change his mind and take criticism. He tries to play fair; shushes the audience when they are not being fair to a guest. He gets great guests, like the former PM of Canada.

I love Bill Maher! I used to think he was annoying, but I've come 'round.

hurray for those who don't fall neatly into one camp -- it shows they think for themselves.

the HELL?

OTM. I don't agree with Maher on a lot of things and he is often obnoxious as hell (I think it comes with the job description), but non-prepackaged sets of opinions are k-classic.

nobody loves no one

Get thee behind me, Satan.

Well, that's one way of looking at it.

Of course, I like John Maher; and also Fred Maher's drumming on Lloyd Cole's early solo work - magnificent.

I used to think that he was unbearable -- but get past his smirk and he has some intelligent things to say.

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/posters/posterimages/d/dccab.jpg

Since no one has really responded to Maria D's question, I'll go ahead and agree- it was exciting to see Michael Moore butt heads with protofascist David Dreier, and to Maher there representing Common Sense, backing up more, and shutting up Dreier.

Also exciting was proving how ridiculous Nader's stance is, though the former PM of Canada made the point stronger than the comedians (they are comedians, both Moore and Maher, remember).

hurray for those who don't fall neatly into one camp -- it shows they think for themselves.

-- Maria D. (maria...), July 31st, 2004 4:15 PM. (later)

Thinking for yourself = classic; Pro death penalty = unthinking acceptance of american cultural values (but that's my opinion)

huh? i thought the hipoisie CW on maher was that he was a crypto-fascist hack, ie his whole schtick is making a very average american political position sound angry and 'edgy' and somehow under attack.
-- g--ff (gffcnn...), July 31st, 2004 8:41 PM

If only the average american political position was an eagerness to legalize marijuana, and acknowledgement that the terrorists are 'courageous' if nothing else. Crypto-fascist? That's Brit Hume, not Bill Maher.

xpost Ann Coulter - I had a theory that he was sleeping with her- why else would he even listen to her babble?

thanks google

-- oops (don'temailmenicelad...), July 28th, 2004.

Ice Cube telling him "Sometimes you sound like a redneck trucker" otm. it's pretty clear he doesn't think he did anything wrong tho.

"Smug liberal who's casually racist" doesn't really ring as "redneck trucker" tbh, but I'll have to watch this. Or maybe I don't. Eh.

thanks for giving us your uninformed opinion at any rate

Responding to a quote you posted, so moderately informed. But no problem!

did you ever watch his show during the Obama years? he is very fond of making a racist joke with the frame of "this is what republicans say"

also the weekly stating that Islam is a danger to the world with dangerous ideas, pretty redneck trucker that stance

it was interesting to learn that when he grew up in the 50s/60s "racism wasn't really a thing"

he must have enough money to retire on, right?

He said Race wasn't a thing, as in we were all white and no one talked about race. He's a piece of shit but you dont have to make shit up to attack him with.

Maher isn't even a liberal, he's a libertarian who voted for Dole in '96.

Does Trump have to actually blow Putin? Is that what it wld take?Flagrant D, balls gargling the leader of the Russian Federation? Jus asking

— Bill Maher (@billmaher) July 19, 2017

comedy genius

ok he's definitely trying to get Trump to respond to him, good luck

This week, Bill called out Molly Ringwald's NYT piece and praised The Simpsons' "fuck you snowflakes" move.

Next week's guests include Jordan Peterson.

A bit of McLusky stage banter comes to mind there - "One grenade....all the miserable, useless atoms..."

i quit watching this show a while back, my weekends have been so much nicer ever since

I quit too but it's hard sometimes when I'm st a party or if ii drink to much the urge is strong

Cancelling HBO tomorrow.

Maher is typically insufferable but I saw that bit in response to the Ringwald/Hughes thing and it didn’t seem ridiculous. I also didn’t read the article so if he’s totally switching the argument around never mind.

Tonight saw hm and Jordan Peterson, two white heterosexual men, griping about “safe spaces” and Maher not once bothering to bring up Peterson’s controversial transphobia, never mind challenge him on it.

Fuck Maher

“stop being surprised every time you watch an old movie or TV show and find some of the ideas in it are old.”

In isolation, i don't find anything to disagree with there.

But to say people didn't find Long Duk Dong offensive in 1984 is ludicrous.

I generally like Maher's willingness to challenge leftist doxa on certain issues but I'm sadly not surprised by his coddling of Jordan Peterson aka Canada's worst cultural export at the moment.

But to say people didn't find Long Duk Dong offensive in 1984 is ludicrous.

I kinda meant that re Ringwald too... it didn't bother you at the time, Molly, cuz you were a 15-year-old white actress.

Just to clarify: it isn't the Ringwald thing that was the final nail for me (it was annoying but expected), but the convo with Jordan Peterson.

You suck. https://t.co/USK38fFe1N

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) May 24, 2019

Not getting any classic-er: https://decider.com/2022/04/13/bill-maher-vs-bella-thorne/amp/

BTW: has anyone else noticed that Carlson has mellowed considerably now that he's not doing Crossfire? I still don't like a lot of his politics, but I'm finding myself thinking of him as an enormous prick less and less. If he loses the bowtie, I think he might have a future as a watchable talk show host.
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:44 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bill Maher is Still A Prick

Whoops, that story was already posted.

Oughta post this here too, just to make sure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4

yea not sure where we should talk about this but it's so funny and spot-on. iirc Tim's been doing a Bill Maher impression for a while

never fails to delight me that the first thing you see when you open this thread is my wife saying: i love bill maher! hahaha! different times.

geez because of this FB is showing me ACTUAL Bill Maher clips and Tim actually nails it better than I thought

love this

“I’m on the side of the kids.”

Bill Burr supports pro-Palestine protests on college campuses. He compares Bill Maher's geopolitical analysis to a "guy that has a fantasy football team."

"This is not your thing. Why am I listening to you? What have you done? Nothing!" pic.twitter.com/S1gIjGwiP8

— 🍄Psychedelic Socialist (@Acid_Communist) May 13, 2024

Lol

Shd really change the title of this thred

Maher gets closer and closer to being Leisure Suit Larry every time I see an image of him.

Omg lol

looool milo

but yeah he's looking not old but elderly lately

Bill Maher deserves his own thread (besides that old thread after he got in trouble for calling the 9/11 terrorists courageous).
Last night, he was brilliant.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:09 AM (nineteen years ago)

Line graph mapping out his stock in this thread is essentially a ski slope.

Real Time is still a great show, but I'm liking less and less of what Bill says. It feels more rote now than before, for some reason. Tucker Carlson came off better than Maher did the other night, and that's a baaaad sign.
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:32 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

BTW: has anyone else noticed that Carlson has mellowed considerably now that he's not doing Crossfire? I still don't like a lot of his politics, but I'm finding myself thinking of him as an enormous prick less and less. If he loses the bowtie, I think he might have a future as a watchable talk show host.
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:44 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

on that note

i would've lumped burr into maher's camp but that was a delightfully surgical take he did to bill.

Burr inhabits a weird space of getting lumped into “COMEDIAN DESTROYS FEMINISM” YouTube playlists but doesn’t seem to be a reactionary shithead himself.

Maher is such a bad advert for smoking weed

Lmao

I could honestly watch this 500 times pic.twitter.com/Yxzn8d2Al8

— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) May 14, 2024

I like that Burr didn’t come on with a political agenda or even a specific criticism. He’s just like “You’re dumb and full of shit.”

Watched this whole thing and decided I don't really like Burr either, but Bill Maher is really the smuggest most insufferable prick.