Rich coming from a guy who owes his entire career to writers. I hate this smug piece of shit
He’s the walking embodiment of the smug liberal elitist that literally everyone hates. Amazing he still has a career.
I got a special hatred for the “I use to be left leaning, but now they’ve gone too far!” type liberals
And the last time he leaned left was when marijuana was counter culture.
He got some street cred for getting banned for basically doing Hasan’s “America deserved 9/11” bit but like, RIGHT AFTER 9/11 and getting the show he had cancelled I think.
That said he was like, agreeing with Dinesh D’Souza at the time apparently? Lmao didint even know that guy existed back then.
Using words for their impact and not their meaning was as popular back then as it is now and if I recall correctly he got fired because he did a monologue about how the terrorists weren’t cowards, which was one of the things in the bullhorn at the time. He might have also talked about blowback but the thing everybody cared about was the coward thing.
Yeah in the statement he said “We’re cowards for throwing missles” which was spot on but I dont think thats the part that upset people.
He speaks to the heart of affluent liberal suburbanites.
watch the new Tim Heidecker office hours with Ted Armisen. He does a parody character of Bill Maher for the whole duration and nails it.
Ted Armisen
lol
oops
Damn this is good
Tim’s a genius
his Rogan one might even be better
I didn’t even know about these weird Maher interviews until I saw this video
am I a lib for disliking Fred Armisen?
weirdest looking, unfunniestdude of all timeedit: I take that back, i forgot we were in a thread about Bill Maher
saw him do a musical comedy set as part of a rock concert last year and he killed it, and before that I wasn’t a fan
tbh snl is where comedy goes to die
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That scene in Barry with his incredibly odd facial expressions was fucking hysterical.
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tbh I’ve never seen anything with him in
he’s the smuggest of smug libs and conservatives love him lol.
God I saw this clip of him interviewing Marianne Williamson, he was complaining about “elite Ivy League schools” (never mind he went to Cornell) and how they’re brainwashing school children these days. Marianne pushed back that kids aren’t being taught by Ivy League professors, and his response was “yeah well those professors are training the teachers.” Motherfucker thinks every public school teacher went to an Ivy League.
He also bemoaned that modern universities don’t allow for independent thinking and non-conformity, then in the next breath complained about students talking back to their professors. Like, which is it asshole, are students pressed into conformity or are they too free in questioning authority?
God, it would be so funny if someone went on his panel show and, after one of his tirades, asked him, “So, when did you become your dad?”
That’s the core of boomer
, they’re terminally stuck in the mentality that they’re never the “old people” and so they see anything that goes against their worldview is “the man keeping them down.” There’s zero self-awareness that they’re “The Man” now.What false consciousness does to an mf
he’s a millionaire. nothing “false” about it.
Not for Bill Maher but for his audience, you gotta be pretty deep into the cope hole to laugh along at that drivel.
I see this all the time in the business world when it comes to succession planning. One’s refusal to face mortality becomes a refusal to train one’s replacement, and more importantly, neglecting documenting how one does one’s job. I just left a job after just a year where I was being trained to take over a retiring boomer’s job, but she’d documented nothing at all for about 20 years, and yet expected me to do things exactly the way she had done them, no deviation, no questions answered. It was highly stressful. I was just burned out.
I don’t normally get involved in generational wars. Sorry, working class boomers reading this! No war but the class war! But those among your generational cohort who rose to management positions in the business world consistently display this pattern.
No war but class war. But as someone raised by shitty boomers, somethines you need to release a little generational anger, as a treat.
It would be so funny if someone went on his panel show and, after one of his tirades
I can’t remember the context but wasn’t Bill owned by Ben Affleck of all people on his own show once? I think it was when Mahr had said something Islamaphobic as usual?
He got owned by Norm Macdonald just mocking his whole dumbass discussion once or twice.
You can tell that a show sucks when Norm Macdonald is regularly the least shitty person in the room.
The only person in the room not high on their own farts. Like, he had the only take on china that wasn’t “let’s nuke them” once or twice on the show.
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Bill Maher is straight up a conservative who considers himself progressive because he smokes weed and fetishises black women
And cuz he’s an aThEiSt
Don’t call yourself an atheist if you don’t support a four olds campaign against christianity
This emoji may as well be Maher:
I’ve got some news for you
Lmao its literally the same image
@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net was this the source material you used?
- was conceived of in my mind in a dehydrated vision
The specter of bill Maher haunts you
actually the arms are crossed in the other direction
I wish I could see what the emoji was called my phone. 🫡
it’s “smuglord”
you can usually long press and it’ll tell you
Doesn’t work on iOS safari.
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Maher said, “We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly. You’re right.”
Only correct thing he’s ever said, and of course he was cancelled for that.
the one time he paid a writer
Fun fact: he was responding/agreeing with Dinesh D’Souza when he said that. I had no idea that guy even existed in the public at the time lmao.
Lmao, he did, I had no idea. Those two on the same program
Well the strike is making it clear that nobody is owed cheap writing either, Billy. Also, if the comparaively tiny A24 can afford their demands without issue or resistance, there is no excuse for companies like WB, netflix, and the like.
no more half measures walter
bill maher is not owed living, in
Nobody is owed cheap or free labour either, but these smarmy smuglords never seem to talk about that quippy gotcha.
“If minimum wage goes up, I won’t be able to afford to keep my business going” ok? Is there a law that says you have to have a business?
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Oh yeah I know, it’s the goog old quote with “rich and poor alike have the freedom to starve.” - Or is there some deeper theory to it, which should be known?
It’s just the cognitive dissonance that is very obvious with that specific argument, which has always struck me as odd
American Piers Morgan
- thats the best insult I’ve ever heard. One of the few times an insulting comparison feels equal both ways too
They’re incredibly similar assholes. Maher would 100% be a tory shithead if he were born in the UK. The fact that he is supposedly ““left”” in America is a huge marker for just how right wing the dems are.
Some so called left wing Dems literally were republicans during the Reagan years
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You know, there are a lot of people deserving of hate. Nazis. Transphobes. Politicians. They all probably deserve it more and I do hate them, but the heart wants what the heart wants and my heart really really hates this unrepentant shitstain of a human being who never had a correct opinion in his life and yet persists in being the most smug-ass motherfucker to ever exist more then any other human being on this planet.
Of course his opinion on strikes is garbage. There was never any doubt. I hope he starts glitching out, McConnell style and shits his pants while live on TV on every single show he records, but they keep dragging him out to do more shows until he is 125 years old and sees everything he ever held dear die.
new rule motherfucker: SHUT THE FUCK UP!
ahem Sorry. When I see this guy I just go off.
I think in a way it’s because he thinks he’s right.
I work with a guy thats a dickhead, and I fucking hate him, because he thinks the reason we don’t vibe is all my fault. Like no introspection no thought of wether he might be wrong.
Bill Maher is the same way, there’s worse people around (my boss is a capitalist with a bic C, so just objectively worse than some dude I don’t vibe with), but the fact he thinks he’s one of “the good ones” or “right” and it’s just everybody else that’s wrong and he’s just above it, makes him that much worse. Like transphobes at least admit they hate something (you do not have to hand it to them), Bill Maher acts like he’s above it, even though he’s also just a fucking bigot.
People still listen to this washed up dipshit?
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I dont think they do. He just still runs his mouth regardless
I regret to inform you that wine cave warriors in my area do cite him sometimes as some kind of primary source for their own smugness.
I hate that theyre not the same size
The wine cave has a Renaissance-style perspective shot.
Wine cave warriors in my area do cite him sometimes as some kind of primary source for their own smugness and even include “he must be right because both sides hate him” takes.
That both sidsing shit is the most frustrating thing ever. My friends like that. Big JP, Ben Shapiro, Russel Brand type guy. We work together on an ambulance so we spend most of our day alone together, leading to plenty of political conversations. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the “but both sides” bs. Knowing full well I’m an anarchist too lol, like bruh. Yeah it’s both sides (sometimes) but you’re being disingenuous and completely missing the point. Sorry to bombard you but I literally just got off shift and Oliver Anthony was the culture war bullshit topic of the day lol
Mysteriously, “both sides” arguments lean in favor of the ruling class and the status quo quite consistently.
Yyyyyyep. He came from an upper middle class family and doesn’t think white privilege is a thing or that a few people having all the money isn’t a bad thing. His stance essentially boils down to “both sides are bad, progress is good but the left does it wrong and I have no idea what ‘correct’ progress would look like so nothing should be changed”
There really is no arguing with those privilege elementals; when I argue with them it’s for the sake of anyone listening or watching.
“he must be right because both sides hate him” takes
"I enjoy eating human feces. No, ‘enjoy’ doesn’t convey the immensity of joy that I feel. I crave it. When it touches my lips and tongue, I slip into a sublime ecstasy the likes of which fasting saints in the desert could only dream of achieving. Oh, you hate this? You despise the mental picture I have conjured in your mind? That must mean I’m correct
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Personally I dont see why Bill maher is owed a living of any kind. A genuinely worthless individual
Withholding your service until your demands are met? Whose idea was that, the republicans?
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Everyone is owed a living, motherfucker! It’s not as if we can just flee into the woods, y’all mulched all the woods and built strip malls!
I mean, we could probably squat in all the abandoned strip malls
Half of them have been reclaimed by nature anyway
Ive fantasized for years about turning them into big public hydroponics temples, partway between a community garden, a library and an art museum. They aleady come equipped with AC, pretty skylights and sound systems to play nice ambient music over.
It’s amazing how suddenly the corporations start defending these undead buildings the moment someone actually wants to do anything with them.
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i wish nothing but terrible things to bill maher and hope he eats shit sooner rather than later
