Im not a huge Maher guy, but I think he's pretty funny if his politics dont turn you off.

He was doing his HBO show live from D.C. and then the cameras followed him to the stand up show he was doing and Olbermann and Moore acted as the announcing pair.

As you'd expect, Olbermann understood the bit and was funny, Moore was cringe inducing terrible.


And the icing on the cake is that he looks like a fat lesbian. Just bad all around


And I think he's a decent film/doc maker. But man that guy is terrible at EVERYTHING ELSE

Is there a reason he always wears a hat?

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Yeah, I watched that, and that 5-7 mins they were on was terrible. Maher did a live episode of "Real Time" right before the stand-up gig, so he had to rush like 5 blocks over to get to the other theater.

The entire premise of the two shows back-to-back was just incredibly dumb. For one, why not just have the stand-up gig in the same theater that they shot the "Real Time" episode in. It's not like anything elaborate had to be done. Just remove the desk, and put a mic out on the stage. Secondly, he had Jerry Seinfeld on as his "celebrity guest" near the end of the "Real Time" show. Why didn't he just ask Jerry to do a few bits for the crowd to take up the 7 minutes of otherwise useless airtime with Olbermann and Moore?

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It has to be holding a rug in place.

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The two shows and following him has been done and it can be funny but they just exectued it terrible


Seinfeld was funny on the panel. And he was keeping Maher in check.

Maher: I blame Fox news

Seinfeld: Its not just Fox, its all 24 hour networks isnt it? There isnt that much news


Maher: People should be more sophisticated

Seinfled: People should be more sophisticated? How you gonna get that done?

It was like Seinfeld was writing jokes for his old show.

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Maher was a pretty witty comic years back. I have not seen him perform in some time. I don't have HBO.

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He still is, but it's pretty much all political at this point. If you are a conservative, you probably aren't going to like it.

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I didn't think Maher's stand-up in DC was very good. If you watch Real Time every week, there was nothing new, just more stuff about what a stupid bitch Sarah Palin is. I don't even remember much of the material itself, just the fact that he kept getting pissed at people shouting stuff in agreement. But when your act is all about "hey, that thing you think? I also think that thing you think," you can't be irate that people want to respond "yeah, man, I hate Bush too" or whatever. If you want people to sit quietly and not interact with you and your politics, that's what your weekly television show is for.

I like Bill Maher a lot, by the way, but as a stand-up, he has gone from trying to get laughs to trying to get WOOOOs.

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i saw maher about 6 months ago. he embraced the crowds feedback and heckles. it really surprised me. he played back when someone yelled out something stupid. it sounds like his dc performance was more like his show.... on his show he hates the crowd saying anything.

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Always liked Bill but he can wear on you. He got into a pissing contest with Ben Affleck this week about Islam. Didn't watch it just saw a few headlines about it. Maher is automatically in the right on this just because Affleck was the opposing party. Fucking expressionless douchebag husk that he is.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

Affleck is a lightweight who thinks because he's well-spoken and from Boston that he's a capital-letters Man Of Ideas. Maher made perfect sense last week when he went after radical Islam and made perfect sense this week. That liberals can't tolerate murderous intolerance just to be politically correct is right on the money and Affleck walked right into it. What a dipshit.

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Maher was wrong and the rest of panel was absolutely right. There are Catholics and other Christians that have the same beliefs. It's was lazy and bigoted.

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Um, Maher wasn't against the whole panel on this.

Also, say what you want about Maher, but don't accuse him of going easy on Catholics and/or Christians. He's an equal-opportunity atheist. It just seems like he's going harder on Islam because he's not putting kid gloves on for them like so many "enlightened" atheists who prefer keeping their heads attached to their bodies. And if he is going harder on Islam, it's because they kill in the name of their faith more than the rest do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IafWePD1DVw Here's the clip, Zizou.

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The problem is there are people and every group who do and believe things that many of us think is bad. Most of us won't call the entire group of people bad because of those people. He did that. Everyone on his panel disagreed but Ben was rightfully pissed about it.

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Having the "same" beliefs is I can really only think of one select side that beheads, stones, throws acid in women/childrens faces/hangs people for being gay etc etc etc the motherfucking list goes on.

There is a stark difference.

Anyways, Judaism is easy to go after because you won't get riots/death/destruction in every corner of the globe for a cartoon or article or stabbed in the street for making a critical movie or beheaded in Oklahoma....wait, that last one was "work place violence."

Catholics and other Christians share many of the same beliefs that many Muslims do and they've evolved when it came to others over the past 100 years. You're not a bad person because your brother did or said something wrong. All black men that like rap music aren't murderers and criminals. All Muslims don't believe you should die if you leave the religion or believe women shouldn't have rights. They don't all hate Americans either. Maher was stereotyping 1.5 billion people.

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That is not the question. The issue is that the president and media etc are not even willing to identify whatever percentage it is that wants to pour acid/kill women that were raped or make cartoons and generally behead people. They are not ALL Muslims but they most definitely are IN FACT radical MUSLIMS> They are radically following a perverse ISLAM. Do not shy away due to PC call them what they IN FACT are. People in Dearborn MI should not be mad if the president calls these certain Muslims the ANIMALS they are.

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That's fine. The president or anyone can call the people that commits these crimes whatever they want. I have no issue with that.

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Maher's live audience is so dumb that it makes the annoying Daily Show and Colbert crowds seem restrained by comparison.

Maher was completely wrong, like he always is. Same with Sam Harris and his bigotry masked as intellectualism. It's ok to go after radical Islamists. It's not ok to label all Islamists as radical. It's not that difficult of a concept to grasp, but so many are unable to.

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Yeah it kinda showed how moronic and sheepish they were. They were cheering for fucking everybody during that 8 minute span or so

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Organized religion is awful. Next.

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But Islamists are radical (well, reactionary, actually, but "radical Islam" has caught on so radical it is). That's what "Islamism" is. It is the belief in an Islamic theocracy, and theocracy is bad, especially when it involves mutilated genitals and severed heads, which Islamic theocracies do.

Now, do you mean "all Muslims aren't radical/reactionary"? I agree. And Maher and Harris do, too. But too many people still agree with too many bad ideas, whether in Islam or Christianity. Our nation suffers in its own ways from hardline Christianity influencing legislation in inhumane ways when it comes to homosexuality, race, or just plain being a woman. But our nation's crimes against those people are a little higher up on the pyramid. We oppress, we inconvenience, we make second-class citizens, but we don't sever heads. Islamic theocracies do.

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IT. IS. NOT ISLAM. AND. IT. IS. NOT. TERRORISM.

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We're doing a fine job creating many more radicals. No amount of war will kill an idea.

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It's probably hemorrhoids. Try some Preparation H.

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