Bill Maher - classic!

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I don't know the arabs are on about, jews are great!

― sexyDancer, Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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.

― mouse (mouse), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I read that over on Fametracker, so it could be made up. But if not, ew ew ew.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

When emo girls love gristle.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a woman who did a low-key "Wicked Game" homage with Fred Durst.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

let your imagination run wild with that one

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thoranews.com/LimpThree.JPG

nobody loves no one

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I *do* get creeped out when I try to imagine her with Bill Maher.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

So who of you saw his show last night? All these conservatives are just dying for a chance to tell Michael Moore a thing or two -- without actually seeing the movie.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

let your imagination run wild with that one

Get thee behind me, Satan.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the first panel of that Thora/Fred triptych is godly

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

If only because I imagine her grabbing that face fuzz and pulling down, hard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 July 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I just like how it looks like a silhouette profile

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 July 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Zing!

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 31 July 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha, this pic bears posting:
http://theonion.com/images/392/article2871.jpg

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 31 July 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (gcannon), Saturday, 31 July 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that photo above the same one from the fake onion story a couple weeks back? It probably should be acknowledged that the photo isn't real. Although it's probably not impossible to find a real Maher photo in which he's seen with some kind of trophy babe. To his credit, he's unapologetic about his aversion to marriage/family and his desire to date sexy young girls.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"to his credit"

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

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I dgi Maher as well though Politcally Correct had the annoying element of seeing celebrities opine in vain attempts to appear smart. His HBO show is totally classic. He criticizes the pundits and media like Jon Stewart but Maher also articulates a desire for politically change in a way Stewart safely avoides.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

x post
It might not be how a lot of us would prefer to live but he's hurting no one.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Saturday, 31 July 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

He's hurting my eyes.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 1 August 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

For me it's more a queasy feeling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice to see that it's okay to belittle a man because of his looks.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 August 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not the looks, m'friend, more the concept.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

we don't get 'politically incorrect' here but whenever i've seen him being interviewed etc i've not liked him at all.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 1 August 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, was referring to the post above yours. xpost

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 August 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

bill maher is unbearable

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never heard of him.

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

― the bellefox, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor self-parody. C-

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

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

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

how does one "get past" a smirk so broad?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

again

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

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

He and Politically Incorrect were interesting and fun to watch right up until Monica. Then the show went to hell and his schtick got more predictable.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 2 August 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the Republican hooker photo should be Maher with Ann Coulter

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 2 August 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just having an argument about this on IM with a fellow ILMer, and was considering starting a thread.

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)

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?

― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 2 August 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

can someone tell me what a crypto-fascist is?

― common_person (common_person), Monday, 2 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"crypto," meaning "hidden," as used in the term "crypto fascist" (Gore Vidal called William F. Buckley this)

thanks google

― common_person (common_person), Monday, 2 August 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

No, people are always lying when they say this. Don't believe them. Always assume that someone is operating under the most hateful, evil thought processes possible. Do not let them try to "get away with one". Stick up for yourself and don't let them diffuse the situation. People are never joking. Everything is serious, and you should live your life constantly questioning the face-value of what people, esp your friends, tell you.

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

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It pleases me with my own eyes to see that the Maher keeps playing harp on the Bush's minutes spent in the class room choking and how this should break the deal right there. On the elsewhere hand, a woman with who I am having romantic involvements would without questioning make me to soften if she were to play for us the Korn band.

― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

For all of Maher's "incorrectness," like most people who pride themselves on being un-PC, he likes to back winners. I've never seen him take an actually tough stand on anything. (Deriding/hating/criticizing GWB does not actually count as a tough stand, sorry.)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

even his 'boldest' statement (terrorists = not cowardly) he was just repeating dinesh d'souza, the fount of all bold transgressive anti-pc cryptolapdog jive (cf. vice magazine, talk radio).

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i kno its early in the morning for me, but wtf is with andy k?

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen him take an actually tough stand on anything. (Deriding/hating/criticizing GWB does not actually count as a tough stand, sorry.)

I think that's probably why he seems so smug and off-putting to me. That and the skeeviness.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway, i try not to over- or misuse "fascist," and i do mean it, not as a synonym for "right wing jerk" (which is NOT really a synonym). apart from the aggressive normality & blount & tracer's otm details, he = "me, i'm outside politics, it's all a big joke, am i right? democrats are crazy, republicans are crazy. why oh why isn't there a politics for NORMAL ASSHOLES like u & me?" BEWARE PPL WHO SAY THIS KIND OF THING.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i kno its early in the morning for me, but wtf is with andy k?

Impending fatherhood is starting to play havoc with his MIND!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like he put that into a text translator, translated it into some random language, and then back into English.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never heard him claim to be a NORMAL ASSHOLE.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What would qualify as a tough stand in your book, Tracer Hand?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything that interferes with Bill Maher's ability to live exactly as he pleases.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

even the "terrorists are courageous" line is something that cannot be said except in a posture of patting yourself on the back for saying it--everything he says is basically in this posture i think.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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Haven't watched that, but keep seeing it in my YT recs and LOLing at the title.

― cryptosicko, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 21:14 (ten months ago)

When he pulls out that dumb "hits of 1968" or whatever sheet I was fully expecting it to tie in - "oh look there's the Hassles at #99, do you remember those times?"- but no, he just wanted to show Billy Joel he had a list of 60's hits that he sent out for once. Baffling.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 21:18 (ten months ago)

yeah also the lit cigarette is wtf as well.. does his think he's Edward R. Murrow or something?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 22:51 (ten months ago)

watched the Big Joel vid on a plane and yeah it gets to the heart of what I find so weird about this guy. it's hard to critically think about it since he's so fuckin annoying and mean all the time but I've always felt his political views were completely incomprehensible for a guy who talks so damn much. I mean guys like Rogan & Elon turning right was extremely predictable but I really don't think he will. he's got kind of a Scott Adams thing going on. also in disbelief at how unfunny his show actually is. these are all piss poor punchlines.

― frogbs, Monday, 11 August 2025 02:13 (ten months ago)

He was way ahead of the curve being a libertarian who chose lib-ness over fascism but kept some residual bigotry as a bonus.

― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Monday, 11 August 2025 02:27 (ten months ago)

Yeah, there is a certain stripe of boomer that hates Trump and Those Damn Woke Kids equally, perhaps it is more popular here in Europe where a lot of bigots still have "smarter than those dumb Americans" as part of their self-image.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 11 August 2025 08:22 (ten months ago)

two weeks pass...

BM: I sent away for this when I was 12. [Holds up ratty old pamphlet] The Top 100 Hits of 1968.

[embarrassingly long pause]

BJ: Am I supposed to know?

BM: No, I'm just saying...I still have it.

BJ: Why?

― cryptosicko, Thursday, 28 August 2025 22:32 (nine months ago)

lol

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 August 2025 23:12 (nine months ago)

tomorrow's guest on club random: woody allen!

― jaymc, Sunday, 31 August 2025 23:35 (nine months ago)

strong potential for vic berger to edit them into one form for the subsequent Office Hours

― Nancy Makes Posts (sic), Monday, 1 September 2025 08:30 (nine months ago)

will absolutely watch (listen to from the kitchen) whole episode if Maher gets Woody baked tho

― Nancy Makes Posts (sic), Monday, 1 September 2025 08:31 (nine months ago)

woody sneezes and disperses all of bill's overpriced ragweed across the room

― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Monday, 1 September 2025 09:20 (nine months ago)

What I heard (via a friend, obv, not watching that shit) : Woody starts going on about Bicycle Thieves, Maher loses interest.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 2 September 2025 10:05 (nine months ago)

miss the days when pseudo intellectual right-wingers at least pretended to be interested in art

― Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 September 2025 10:54 (nine months ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idjSjD_KGGo

― cryptosicko, Friday, 19 September 2025 12:00 (eight months ago)

I liked this.

I watched the interview despite finding Bill Maher sufferable. In retrospect, I can’t help but believe Woody Allen’s love of film is performative.

― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 19 September 2025 13:34 (eight months ago)

Gen Z?

― cryptosicko, Friday, 19 September 2025 14:51 (eight months ago)

six months pass...

"Maher has been chosen to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, two people familiar with the selection told us. One of them, who works at the center, said an announcement is expected soon. A third person said that Maher had been offered the award—and that Trump had been supportive of the idea—but was not sure whether Maher had accepted it. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because Maher has not yet been officially announced as the award recipient. As with all decisions involving this president, the move could still be reversed until publicly announced. The White House declined a request for comment."

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/03/trump-bill-maher-kennedy-center/686474/

― jaymc, Friday, 20 March 2026 16:37 (two months ago)

Rob Schneider lobbying the President for a last-minute switcheroo

― Come On, (Eazy), Friday, 20 March 2026 17:17 (two months ago)

but Maher isn't funny

― congragulations (stevie), Friday, 20 March 2026 17:18 (two months ago)

Is anyone who wins this award funny?

― 138,683 Serious, Earnest Americans Emphasize Demand for Prepar (President Keyes), Friday, 20 March 2026 17:28 (two months ago)

Bill Cos-- uh...

Conan O'Brien won it!

― beard papa, Friday, 20 March 2026 17:31 (two months ago)

I suppose some were but Kevin Hart won this award two years ago.

― 138,683 Serious, Earnest Americans Emphasize Demand for Prepar (President Keyes), Friday, 20 March 2026 17:31 (two months ago)

At least it's Maher and not, say, Joe Rogan.

― birdistheword, Friday, 20 March 2026 17:32 (two months ago)

Richard Pryor was the first winner. Bob Newhart, Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, George Carlin, Bill Murray, etc....some duds too, but I guess comedy's all subjective. But Mel Brooks refused the award three times and Robin Williams also refused the award.

― birdistheword, Friday, 20 March 2026 17:34 (two months ago)

I'm on the edge of my seat over whether Maher will accept it. He's so well known for his modesty, a humble craftsman.

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 20 March 2026 18:12 (two months ago)

No prize for you, Bill Maher.

― birdistheword, Friday, 20 March 2026 22:04 (two months ago)

If the award is presented by the Trump Center for Performing Arts and Sycophancy, then this means Maher has missed his perfect chance to stand on his dignity and refuse it. I'm sure he's disappointed, but wait until you hear who does get the award.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 20 March 2026 22:46 (two months ago)

Russell Brand

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 20 March 2026 23:06 (two months ago)

So the next few years are going to be some combo of Gutfeld, Joe Piscopo, Joe Rogan, Rob Schneider, Whitney Cummings...

― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 March 2026 23:58 (two months ago)

Kelsey Grammer

― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 March 2026 23:59 (two months ago)

If it's Dennis Miller, at least I can pretend it's for his mid-'80s run on Weekend Update. (Easy for me when it's like 95% of what I've seen from Dennis Miller.) Same with Joe Piscopo's work with Eddie Murphy on SNL - he was the best and only constant foil for Murphy during their time there. (Also, he had a good novelty record that he recorded around the same time.)

― birdistheword, Saturday, 21 March 2026 04:50 (two months ago)

Piscopo apparently so hard to work with SNL staffers had a running joke - "Eddie Murphy's success has gone to Joe Piscopo's head".

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 21 March 2026 09:27 (two months ago)

Bill Maher will win the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center said Thursday, less than a week after the White House forcefully denied that the comedian, who has had a hot-and-cold relationship with President Donald Trump, would win it.

― 138,683 Serious, Earnest Americans Emphasize Demand for Prepar (President Keyes), Thursday, 26 March 2026 14:53 (two months ago)

Oy veh

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 March 2026 04:51 (two months ago)

If Maher actually has to give it to Trump, that is a really fucking sad level of fealty and venality.

― birdistheword, Saturday, 28 March 2026 16:24 (two months ago)

Trump is much funnier than Bill Maher, so it would also be correct.

― Mallard Reaction (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 28 March 2026 17:04 (two months ago)

otoh idiocy that's unintentionally funny doesn't deserve to be recognized with that kind of prize, not unless they rename it as the Mark Twain Prize for American Stupidity.

― birdistheword, Saturday, 28 March 2026 18:06 (two months ago)

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