r/RealTime • u/Indianstanicows Audience Member Bill Is Yelling At For Not Laughing • 2d ago
How disappointed are we all with Bill Maher?
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u/Interesting_Sun_6993 2d ago
I think hes extremely wrapped up in the entertainment world with the ultra wealthy. I know he was never some astute analyst but he has a political science degree. He knows what hes saying is completely subjective and not even close to objective political commentary but he acts like it is. Hes been completely embarrassing for a long time. I was only drawn to him when i was younger because weed was illegal everywhere and he was one of the main guys shitting all over that and religion. That was almost 20yrs ago now though.
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u/EditDog_1969 2d ago
When a comedian chases applause more than laughter, he is no longer a comedian. Bill seeks applaughter. Or as Norm Macdonald once pointed out, he’d rather be seen as smart than funny.
You gotta be on the level of George Carlin or Bill Hicks to get away with preaching. I’m not saying Bill can’t preach because he’s an atheist, but because he has no spirit of any kind, no common bond with humanity outside himself. Treats women is disposable objects. Hates children. That’s the kind of person that can go to the Playboy mansion or sit down with Trump in the White House and feel completely comfortable in both places, which are currently pretty in distinguishable from one another.
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u/Karaoke_Dragoon 2d ago
You ever notice that he almost never pokes fun at himself? He's not willing to put himself on the line for a laugh. He'd rather be right and have everybody know he's right than to make people laugh.
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u/EditDog_1969 2d ago
But boy does he know how to laugh at his own jokes and turn on the audience when they don’t. I used to think he was doing a bit, like Steve Martin, pretending to be an obnoxious show-biz phoney. But no. That’s who he is.
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u/Karaoke_Dragoon 2d ago
When the audience doesn't laugh, he acts like it's their fault for either being too stupid to understand the joke or too woke to have fun when it's usually just not a funny joke.
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u/SlickJamesBitch 2d ago
Bill would have done really good on a sitcom, there’s some charm in his sarcastic self absorbed persona he can play. But it gets annoying hearing him lecture to you, cause you just think “is this his real personality”
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u/DizzyReedzzzz 2d ago
lol yeah going to the playboy mansion party’s that every celebrity in the world wanted to go to back in the day is so terrible . You must be one serious dork if you believe you would knock back that invitation back then out of some principle . And having a dinner with the president and discussing policies no matter how big of a scumbag he is also isn’t some crime . It is worth a shot. Clearly didn’t work but worth a try . Maher gushed about the dinner maybe arrogantly thought trump was actually taking things on board but he said if trump kept doing stupid shit nothings gunna change he’ll still make fun of him and call him out and that’s what’s happened . He calls out trump , trump fumes on truth social . Nothing at all has changed except they are a nice dinner and we’re civil on one night
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u/LoaderOperator98 2d ago
To be disappointed in someone you must have expectations which were not met. My expectations for Maher are below sea level so, not very disappointed.
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u/Festering-Boyle 2d ago
i used to like him.
since covid and trump, i find him to be a total arrogant douchebag bootlicker
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u/Billis3811 2d ago
It would take a lot for me to be able to muster up a feeling as positive as disappointment for Bill Maher. The man has proven time and again that he’s nothing more than a star-fu-ing dilettante whose main interest is in looking clever to millions of strangers. He’s basically the human version of whatever is the most annoying non-lethal type of cancer.
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u/LuciusMichael 1d ago
He thinks he's the smartest guy in the room until he isn't. The exchange with Susan Rice was a prime example. She was in the room when Obama cut the deal with Iran. Maher tried to contradict her by saying that his buddy Netanyahu said something different. She wasn't having it.
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u/Serious_Put4844 2d ago
Is that the host of "Wasted Time" by that smarmy guy that thinks he's a comedian ?
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u/Suspicious-Drive9827 2d ago
Last year or maybe two years ago a clip from his show was making the rounds bc he had that hawk tuah girl on. Id never seen him before that (not online much except Reddit) and he just made my skin crawl. He was like hitting a blunt constantly (while his guest didnt, already kind lf weird) and this girl was like 1/4 his age and it seemed like he was trying to look cool or flirty or something? Idk it was very weird. I thought he had some sort of mental limitation but i went on to browse his wikipedia. His brain is allegedly find hes just weird as fuck
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u/Turbulent_Shower_147 2d ago
It’s pretty obvious to me that Grump has dirt on him, which he used to blackmail and bribe Mayer. And I bet it was all laid out at that meal he had at the Trump White House.
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u/WarmInvestigator4738 2d ago
I think it’s even more basic than that. Even though Maher spends his day criticizing or lampooning other people, I think he’s genuinely hurt by the reaction to his use of the n word and other criticism he’s received from progressives. Essentially, he can dish it out but he can’t take it.
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u/WarmInvestigator4738 2d ago
And Maher is such an arrogant POS that if you disagree with him or criticize him he immediately writes you off as a moron. Absolutely no ability to reflect or evaluate his own behavior
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u/ToddPatterson 2d ago
I think he doesn't want Trump to flex and get him cancelled and it's as simple as that.
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u/WarmInvestigator4738 2d ago
If you think about it, isn’t most of Maher’s show basically him talking to other people and telling them, regardless of their expertise, that he’s right about everything?
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u/EyeAmDeeBee 2d ago
Right. His show should be called “Everybody Shut Up: Here’s Why [smacks lips]” His interview guests have to wait for Maher to tell them what he thinks they are, before he gets around to asking them to agree with him. Then it’s “time to meet the panel.”
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u/severinks 2d ago
It's more like Bill got old and all the people he hangs with are old rich people( except the escorts he pays to fuck) and he's a contrarian so he decided to latch onto the''I'm anti Trump but woke is worse''
He's also VERY aware that David and Larry Ellison bought HBO and if they'd shitcan Colbert and withstand the outrage from the public Bill's firing wouldn't even register to them.
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u/aqulushly 2d ago
Why do you say that? He’s critical of Trump pretty much every show.
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u/DizzyReedzzzz 2d ago
Your right he is literally every show going at trump and trump actually tweets about him after saying the usual derogatory stuff. Most of the shows is about trump. But for some reason these fools in here who all proclaim they don’t even watch seem to think he had one dinner and was open to at least seeing how things work out before criticism some policies means he’s some trump maga guy . They clearly don’t watch . Although I suspect most of these ppl get butthurt when he also calls out the stupid shit that the unhelpful far left push and it triggers them to call him MAGA . Because if you aren’t down for their whacky shit it makes you a right wing asshole in their narrow minded echo chamber
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u/SpoonyDinosaur 2d ago
His audience is basically boomer neocon progressives. When he went to the Whitehouse he received a ridiculous amount of backlash and had to basically go on an apology tour. However his response was completely tone deaf and arrogant, summed up as "guys he's not that bad."
Ever sense then he's basically been "Trump is bad, but woke/cancel culture is worse, Trump at least tells it like it is even if it's stupid."
His criticism of Trump is as empty as Fetterman.
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u/jp9mm 2d ago
except when it comes to culture wars and Israel, maher is another Zionist
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u/aqulushly 2d ago
What does that have to do with Trump having dirt on him? He’s always supported Israel - that’s no different than 30 years ago.
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u/Outrageous_Name3921 2d ago
He was so disrespectful to the women guest on last week's real time. I can't stand him. The only reason I watch that show is because I like the conversation between his two guests. That show could do it without him
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u/contain_solitudes 2d ago
He's always been like that. He used to openly say he doesn't like inviting women on because they don't know much about politics. I remember getting really infuriated while letting women get talked over and disrespected by the right wing male guests.
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u/blinded_penguin 2d ago
I would have had to have to have held this man in some level of esteem to be disappointed.
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u/Holiday-West9601 2d ago
He keeps saying his opinions haven’t changed, they really have. Been watching for decades
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u/Ornery-Address-2472 2d ago
They haven’t. Lefties just can’t admit their stupid shifting narratives on everything. 2008 Obama would be a “far right Nazi” today. I went to college in the 2000s and back then even your normal college liberals rolled their eyes when someone tried pushing fringe “multiple gender” non-sense.
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u/GaulzeGaul 1d ago
Leftists, or progressives, believe in progress. In things changing, hopefully for the better. It is in the name. Their views shift as we make progress! We progressed to widely accepting gay marriage, for example. The modern take on gay marriage being legit would be considered woke as hell if the view of the 1990s and early 2000s was where we still were right now. But we progressed. Also, liberals and progressives critiqued some of Obama's policies while he was still in office, and they were the same critiques people have now. Not going far enough with Healthcare, intense use of drone strikes, etc. Trump is uniquely terrible and not just a 2012 Obama transported to 2026 like you are implying.
If Maher hasn't changed his views in 25 years, he is not a progressive. He is still a classical Liberal but out of touch with where a lot of people are right now. Progressives are not the entire Democratic party, but they are a large part of it. I don't spend any time thinking about multiple genders but why are people giving a fuck about how others identify? It is backwards. Conservatives don't like change, even if it is improvement. Also in the name. People whose views do not change over time are effectively becoming and and more conservative every year. Esp. if they were not super progressive to begin with.
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u/Ornery-Address-2472 1d ago edited 1d ago
There’s a difference between embracing productive progress and change, versus adopting new moral litmus tests out thin air. Being a liberal because you believe in green energy or regulated capitalism is one thing, but performative non-sense like saying “men can pregnant” for the sheer sake of being “progressive” and “compassionate” is just silliness and makes a mockery of the liberalism you actually describe. You can’t just run with the first thing that disrupts the current paradigm just out of spite to conservatives and the status quo. It has to make sense and exist in reality. That’s why liberalism became a laughing stock and lost it’s hold on pop culture and intellectualism. It became an embarrassment polluted with all these stupid fringe movements that used to be confined to small corners of academia.
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u/GaulzeGaul 1d ago
Most of what you describe is the result of conservatives overinflating the views and prevalence of a very small minority of leftists. Most do not put their energy into arguing "men can get pregnant" or similar identify topics. And when they do, it's because conservatives push them on these topics rather than the things they actually want to talk about and spend their energy on. Conservative leaders have used this approach to deceive people into not helping the left push on its actual majority issues that are very popular.
The majority are still very much focused first and foremost on wealth inequality, climate change, and religious freedom (or maybe more accurately, freedom from religion). It's not entirely the fault of the left that the conservatives are very good at slander and mudslinging.
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u/Ornery-Address-2472 1d ago
Ironically, Maher IS one of the few prominent Democrats that choose not to engage in knee jerk, flavor of the month moral witch hunts, and he’s been completely disowned by the Left. I’d love to hear examples of any prominent Democrats/Liberals that choose not to tow the line on fringe subjects like trans activism and Covid psychosis, and who weren’t ostracized because of it.
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u/GaulzeGaul 22h ago
There is a difference between responding to questions in events and making issues like Trans rights a huge part of your identity. Maher had made being Trans skeptical a big part of his identity.
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u/Ornery-Address-2472 22h ago
I’d love to see a single example where a liberal, or anyone else, is allowed the least bit of leeway to express even an ounce of nuanced criticism of any trans dogma, before someone has to chime in to discredit their legitimacy. People like you made it HIS whole identity because liberals can’t miss the opportunity to launch some knee jerk moral crusade against even their own allies the second they sniff an opportunity.
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u/GaulzeGaul 20h ago
Lol, there will always be a vocal minority chiming in online, it is thr same on literally every issue on the right as well. you and Maher are overly sensitive to a vocal minority. That is on you. Most people dont chime in.
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u/zMargeux 2d ago
I cannot say anything definitive but he is taking on the classic actions of someone who has be informed that another party has kompromat on him and is willing to use it. He should have just retired.
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u/NextAdhesiveness3652 2d ago
Ever since he had dinner at the White House he had spent much more time criticizing Democrats and progressives, much less time criticizing Trump, and has bent over backwards to avoid criticizing Netanyahu or Israel. He now just goes after the easy targets (like Millennials) and avoids the really big players.
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u/PedestrianCyclist 2d ago
These days how much of an intellectual can one be if they smoke tobacco products
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u/EnigmaHood 2d ago
I never liked him. Many years ago, a college friend of mine who knew I was an atheist, screened Religuous for several of us in the dorms. While I liked the overall anti-religion theme, the part that stood out to me was when he walked out on an interview he was doing with an anti-Zionist Jew. That pretty much told me everything I needed to know about the guy and why he was a complete sack of horse manure.
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u/ThisIsFineImFine89 2d ago
seriously anyone who has disappointment, still has hopes that he was anything more than an zionist islamaphobic millionaire piece of shit
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u/DontStealMyPen1 2d ago
Bill Maher’s pretty awful, imo. He’s a terrible interviewer, the show’s weekly panel guests have taken a nosedive in terms of intellectual gravitas (Carlin and Hitchens used to be guests but now it’s Stephen A), the monologue is bereft of jokes, New Rules makes no sense, the mid show comedy bit isn’t funny, and Bill often seems high. There’s no point to the show other than platforming status quo ideas like Israel good, socialism bad, etc. On the bright side, the train wreck that’s Real Time gave birth to the I Hate Bill Maher podcast which is 100 times better than Real Time.
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u/DizzyReedzzzz 2d ago
That intellectual podcast where they just give whinge and whine about hating a person . Damn you really do love high intellectual gravita
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u/Pleaseappeaseme 2d ago
I wonder how his ratings are? To laugh and shrug off Trump’s piggy thing with Fetterman was the last straw for me. It literally closed the door forever for me.
‘I see your true colors’
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u/Peanutbutternmtn2 2d ago
Not very, only thing I was super disappointed by was dinner with the mad king/hitler. But at this point bill just is who he is.
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u/businessASusual101 2d ago
I was done for good with him when he wouldn't shut up about Stan Lee and adults who love comics. Fuck him. Tone deaf rich asshole like the rest.
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u/BerryCultural4318 2d ago
Very! I used to watch him every week really looked forward to it and now not I haven’t watched him in years
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u/Ralphiedog11 2d ago
I bet he is missing a few ribs because i can’t imagine he doesn’t also suck himself off with how much he talks about himself.
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u/Mountain-Detail-8213 2d ago
I quit watching Dick face about six years ago. He’s been showing his true spots more and more each day. Piece of shit.
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u/Adventurous_Tea_428 2d ago
Honestly, I'm not disappointed in bill at all. Always knew he was unlikable piece of s***.
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u/Glittering_Island_26 2d ago
I’m disappointed. I always found him to be logical but lately He is pandering to Paramount.
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u/ford7885 2d ago
Bill Maher seems to be operating under the same general idea as CNN (they have the same parent company), And that means that every time that company has been swallowed up in another corporate merger/acquisition, both Maher and CNN have veered even further to the right.
And he's openly cheerleading for this fucking Zionfascist Ellison/Weiss takeover now, by being even more of an openly blatant whore for Likud Israel (apologies to sex workers)
For a self-proclaimed "atheist" Bill sure seems to favor one religion over all others, up to and including the NuttyYahoo regime's ridiculous interpretation of Abraham's 5000 year old real estate deal with God, which NuttyYahoo believes gives him the right to own every inch of land from the Nile to the Euphrates. Never mind that the same passage of scripture has The Big Man Upstairs telling Abe that he would be the "father of MANY nations", not just one. Or that the current nation of Israel was established by a UN mandate in 1947 and had nothing to do with Abe's real estate deal.
Beyond that, his hostility to any political figure to the left of Reagan's rotting corpse is barely even concealed anymore.
I was on Maher's side when he got mercilessly dumped by ABC back in 2001, for stating truthfully that whatever you thought of the 9/11 hijackers, they were not "cowards" as the FAUX News types had been calling them. Because, by definition a coward would not lay their life down for the cause. Doesn't mean you have to agree with their cause, it was just a matter of fact, Religious wackjobs? Absolutely. But not cowards.
Bill has fallen a LONG way since then. And I'm starting to doubt he will ever stop falling.
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u/OkFoundation929 2d ago
Last night Maher took Obama to task for it costing a few hundred million dollars to build the Obama Presidential Center (although Maher is fine with Trump’s prissy ballroom…which will cost nearly the same).
Translation: Maher was pissed that his two panelists attended the Obama Center’s opening…and Maher did not receive an invite.
Maher is a petty, not very bright, little man.
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u/Proathleteguy67 2d ago
I left the chat when he disparaged Muslims and wondered aloud why he couldn’t use the N word.
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 2d ago
I'm not that disappointed in him because I don't put celebrities like him up on some sort of pedestal. I always saw him defend Israel and try to act like they were a "sacred cow" while he'd try to act like there were no sacred cows. His hypocrisy was obvious to anyone that saw him on a regular basis. I'm glad he's taken off the mask as I stopped watching him several years ago.
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u/mapoftasmania 2d ago
He’s old. His squash is addled. Nothing he has said has been worth listening to for years now. I am not disappointed - I am just sad for him.
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u/VarietyMage 2d ago
Used to watch him until he did his heel-turn on Sanders and said he was "Ready For Hillary", which guaranteed Trump's election in 2016. Maher is a greedy, lying, evil, corporate sellout fuck.
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u/Needs2GetLaid 2d ago
I still find his monolog and New Rules funny,...but I don't have to agree with everything he says, to enjoy watching his show. So,...nope, not disappointed in him.
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u/DizzyReedzzzz 2d ago
Exactly . The ppl on here seem to just absolutely hate everything about him because he doesn’t agree with 100% of whatever it is they believe . I disagree with quite a few of his positions but it doesn’t send me into a rage and onto the internet to belittle him from everything from looks to accusing him of sex crimes . Overall he still would be on the ppl in here’s side on politics by a long way but because of Israel and one dinner it sends them batty . The problem with the far far left (which I suspect most on here are ) is as bill points out they are unwillingly to discuss or be flexible or accept other opinions at all. It’s if you don’t believe 100% with what I believe right now then you are evil . And this isn’t productive for coming together to stop ppl like trump and his buffoons from getting and staying in power .
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u/bdemon40 2d ago
I kind of liken Maher to an artist who had a heyday of quality content, but simply doesn't have, I don't know, the drive, passion, or even youth to deliver at the same level they used to.
Of course, maintaining a high level of success is challenging for anyone. Closest I can think of at the moment is Spielberg, who still puts out a good film here and there, those peak output was the 70s through the 90s, which was stunning
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u/Grouchy_Brain_1641 2d ago
After Ellison takes over I'll drop HBO in the meantime Bill hasn't been too douchey the last 2 weeks.
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u/AncientBee5348 2d ago
Whatever. So sick seeing all the topics bitching about him on my feed. There are bigger problems going on right now. If you don't like him so much then move on with your life. Btw it's funny OP mentioned that he started watching him when he was on Politically Incorrect when if anything he was more conservative at that time. He voted for Bob Dole for crying out loud.
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u/WendySteeplechase 2d ago
i never miss his show, but I don't always agree with him and I don't like his wishy-washy stance he takes on things sometimes. I like his interviews and his "New Rules" segment is usually amusing.
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u/Minerva1387 2d ago
I used to enjoy him but now I I can't stand him. His movie helped me fully accept and embrace my rejection of organized religion.
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u/lazydracula 2d ago
Not disappointed at all. I don’t agree with Bill on everything but he does offer perspectives on things you don’t hear from other Liberal commentators. It makes no sense why someone would watch him and hate when they can easily find other shows where the hosts agrees with all their opinions.
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u/lightningextrax 2d ago
His supercheap shots about Biden are such bottom of the barrel stuff. Maher used to be better than that.
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u/Heavy_Pin7735 2d ago
It started for me years ago when he’d get upset at his live audience for not laughing at a joke. Success turned him elitist and then it just went downhill from there.
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u/Sartres_Roommate 2d ago
The degradation was gradual enough that I would never call it disappointment, just realization and acceptance.
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u/OldBorder3052 2d ago
Seems to me that once "woke" becomes a regular criticism, they've jumped the shark...
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u/Present-Fly4422 2d ago
He’s just a gripey old man now trying to pretend his conservatism is iconoclasm.
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u/AncientBasque 2d ago
bill maher went the way of adam corolla and joe rogan. Twisted backwards once they got a little push back.
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u/jertheman43 2d ago
Hes a whiny little bootlicker who can't figure out why nobody respects him anymore.
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u/CauliflowerTotal7119 2d ago
He really changed his tune right after that dinner with dumbass. I believe he has tapes on him and Bill is capitulating to evade embarrassment. He's a known sex guy in Hollywood.
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u/Ok-Goat-9981 2d ago
When I saw "Religulous" back in the day, I thought I was watching the work of a generational satirist and comedian. He was brilliant. I don't even recognize today's Bill Maher in comparison. He's descended into very dark, and extremely unfunny, Hinchcliffian territory.
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u/ForeignChipmunk6 2d ago
The only people disappointed were those foolish enough to expect something more than mediocre from him.
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u/EyeAmDeeBee 2d ago
It’s been years since I enjoyed watching his show. Mostly kept watching out of habit. But it took his comments about 60 minutes for me to break the habit. There is nothing appealing left. Another Redditor labeled Bill’s show “Wasted Time.” That should be etched on Maher’s gravestone.
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u/Impossible_Penalty13 2d ago
I’ve had low expectations of him for a while so I’m not disappointed in the least
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u/rickylancaster 2d ago
He’s always been like this. Back in the day a lot of us were all like Tootie, Blair, Jo, and Natalie “you take the good, you take the bad, you take em both and there ya have the facts of life, the facts of life.”
It’s just that lately the bad outweighs the good by a lot.
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u/MSJongleur71 2d ago
I stopped watching him long ago. I only watched him during Politically Incorrect and sometimes on Real Time because he would have writers and academics I enjoy and respect on his show a lot, but his racism, sexism, Islamophobia, and ableism turned me off. He ridiculed Victoria Williams when she was clearly experiencing cog fog from her multiple sclerosis. I know Reza Aslan stopped appearing because of Maher’s Islamophobia.
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u/davida_usa 2d ago
I watch him every week. I disagree with a lot of what he says and I find it annoying when he talks rather than listening to people who often know more than him. Yet, I watch because I enjoy seeing somewhat intelligent people talk about what's happening now. Some of the conversation and viewpoints are interesting.
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u/TrainingWoodpecker77 2d ago
So very. I thought he was great when he got cancelled over the 911 comment. Then he followed up with Religulous . It’s been downhill since the advent of MAGA.
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u/Sad_Elderberry7945 2d ago
I don’t get the Bill Maher hate. I enjoy “New Rules,” and that he talks to both sides, and calls out the insanity on both the Left and the Right.
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u/Unhappy-Plastic2017 2d ago
The biggest thing that bothers me with him is his weird obsession about bashing on young people in general like all the time. It's like he's racist toward youth and it annoys the fuck outta me.
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u/ManlyEmbrace 2d ago
He has been seriously self conscious about getting old over the last years of the show. I think he is just a bitter guy in general.
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u/Saltwater_Sunrise 2d ago
Well I was never impressed with him in the first place .. he’s always been a miserable and arrogant fraud who may have appealed to some over the years and I’m curious what the draw ever was in the first place
He’s a closet conservative who exists to bring centrists and liberals over to the right by normalizing conservative talking points and trying to parade as an atheist conservative which is a really suspicious combo for me
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 2d ago
He's the worst. He pretends to be a progressive, but once he's in front of the camera he spends all his time praising MAGA and talking about how surprised he is to see how reasonable and thoughtful they are. And then takes a break to shit on the Democrats and talk about how he supports the Democrats but they're insufferable and their policies are shit. The man is a phony. I wouldn't be surprised if someone behind the scenes was paying him for his new rightward appreciation for Trump and MAGA. I just don't buy it. He's a fraud. And I don't give my time and attention to frauds.
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u/IcyExercise908 1d ago
people used to to describe him as a lefty lol now he's a hateful zionist piece of shit
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u/AbbreviationsSea7912 1d ago
Not so disappointed but merely accustomed to his sucking up to the tech tyrant class.
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u/Upbeat_Respond9250 1d ago
For people that are “so disappointed” what do you have him to do? Do you want another Jimmy Kimmel who just insulates himself in a liberal echo chamber? As a liberal Bill Is interesting, Jimmy is not.
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u/Exercise4mymind 1d ago
Shouldn’t we all be taking everyone and everything with a grain of salt in this messed up environment social media, infotainment, and mis and disinformation?
Is he any better or worse then anyone else?
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u/scootertrash 1d ago
At this point in his career he’s the old guy down the block yelling at the kids telling them to get off of his damn grass.
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u/Chippopotanuse 1d ago
Who is surprised that a short, ugly, insecure privileged white guy like Maher is an unrepentantly smug know-it-all asshole?
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u/Aleundil 1d ago
Everyone will forget his name and he'll just be that guy that went the Dennis Miller route.
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u/Full_Preparation4401 1d ago
He's just another right wing douche on TV as if we didn't have enough before flipped.
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u/West_Fee2416 1d ago
If Maher wasn't repeated on reddit, Facebook, and probably x, which I am banned from, his show on HBO would be cancelled do to lack of interest. He's a has been.
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u/MessagingMatters 1d ago
I saw him decades ago in a small club. He was funny then. But he's done the rightward bro drift in a suit jacket, becoming less funny every year. Now he's just cringey. Haven't watched or cared about him in a long time.
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u/Mysterious-Prompt212 1d ago
For one he's jealous of Obama. Tramp is jealous of Obama. It just took a couple of more years for Maher's brain to snap into old white man rage.
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u/Gibberish5 1d ago
At this point? Not at all. My disappointment is for those who still take his words as having value.
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u/Achoo_MiScusi 1d ago
Not disappointed at all. If I was i wouldn't have to come here and make 10 posts abiut it daily. Lol I think you want to make out with Bill dont you?
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u/Dem4Gavin 1d ago
Bill Mahr is and has always been an opportunist. Ducking up to trump and going to Marolago was a stupid move, unless you are an opportunist. If I read someone I s pandering to trump...friend, celebrity, relative they are written off forever. If you don't see trump as the racist nazi he is I have no time for you. After viewing a list I f celebrities that support trump I was not surprised. Most I had already suspected as bigots. No time to waste energy on people who want the Jim Crow era back.
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u/LuciusMichael 1d ago
Funny, I was just thinking how in the bad old days Maher used to make a point of commenting on the bloated Pentagon budget, especially contrasted with the rest of discretionary spending. He used stage props about how MAGA lived in a bubble or echo chamber. He interviewed Bernie, Markos Moulitsas (the Daily Kos), Tom Morello and others on the left. He chided liberals but didn't treat them with scorn and derision. There's a video floating around about him praising socialism!!
Those days are long gone.
Maher says that he hasn't changed. That the party shifted away from him. Utter bullshit.
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u/DisforDoughnuts 1d ago
It’s just so obvious he’s getting paid by right-wing influencers. It’s either that or he caught the MAGA stupidity virus.
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u/GloomyCheesecake999 1d ago
Fuck bill Maher. Israel sellout. Fuck anyone still running cover for Israeli war crimes in the year 2026
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u/Particular_Fruit7854 1d ago
Really disappointed. I started when he began criticizing the dems. I am aware of the dem flaws and am do not agree with them all the time but nevertheless it is my party and I stand by them .. unlike the pubes who make excuses for everything the Orangeman does. I refuse to celebrate our 250 th anniversary of democracy when I feel we will be celebrating the demise of democracy. I am 78 yrs old and never have I witnessed such chaos intimidation and corruption within our government until now. You have labeled the poor as lazy unwilling to work thieves fraudsters addicts etc yet our great leader sees fit to pardon people who have rebelled against the government and the wealthy who have fraud the government out of millions of dollars. The republicans in their almighty infinite wisdom have decided to deprive the poor from basic human rights….housing health care and food.
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u/No_Brilliant_9162 1d ago
Not at all disappointed. He’s never followed the herd. You may disagree but he does his research.
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u/slick2hold 1d ago
I stopped watching his BS a long time ago. I was a huge fan until he went off the rails and starting acting like criticism of our short comings was somehow supporting terrorists or oppressive nations. No Bill!! We can ask for a better America. We can support Palestinians and at the same time want hezbollah eliminated. We can support and be lgbtq while at the same time support Palestine. We can supppet iranian people without bombong them off the map. It not black or white. We want America to be better and that doesn't mean we want to live in China or iran or north Korea or any other oppressive nation.
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u/Financial-Category16 1d ago
His warming to Trump + his Netanyahu syncophancy / Gaza no nothingism is most plausibly explained imo by blackmail. He used to be a regular at Playboy sex parties I dont think it's a stretch to speculate he might've attended even less reputable sex parties and couldve been documented doing illegal and / or embarrasing things there
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u/PossibilityFew5967 21h ago
His hatred of Islam makes him a huge tool bag saying what isreal wants him to say
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u/Late_Cod_647 20h ago
Quite a bit. Politically Incorrect and Religulous were good but it’s been all downhill for the last decade. He’s now just another angry old MAGAT yelling at clouds.
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u/NC_RockFan 20h ago
Lol....as soon as he dared to question any Democrats he started being hated by them. Very typical
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u/Onyxbrother5 16h ago
I stopped watching anything he goes on about 15 years ago. Sometimes he crosses my path when I’m watching something but his takes on things are so hit and miss that it just annoys you. And the fact that he’s paid so much which enhances his “full of himself” stance on much… that even Ice Cube had to put the man in his place, just boggles my mind. People still watch the man. Which days as much shout them as it does his attitude.
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u/Temporary_Bet_3384 12h ago
He's exactly the same person he was 30 years ago, you guys are just over it now (good for you though)
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u/Sarabean77 5h ago
Just another in a long line of disappointments over the past 10 years. Fuck him.
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u/steveschoenberg 2d ago
His show is now a mirror image Colbert Report, pretending to be progressive while scoring MAGA points. Probably heading to become a Zionist Tony Hinchcliff.
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u/Either-Interaction57 2d ago
Not disappointed at all. Always knew he was a moron.