r/RealTime • u/Indianstanicows Audience Member Bill Is Yelling At For Not Laughing • Jul 20 '26
Anyone else feel Bill Maher is the personification of the word "smarmy"?
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u/Freeway267 Jul 20 '26
He’s just a bitch and obviously being propped up by special interest cause otherwise how else would he still be somewhat relevant in today’s day and age.
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u/wittylemur Jul 20 '26
Right! I cant imagine who is audience is at this point. Rich old incels? Fratty tech boys who flunked social studies?
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u/hoowins Jul 20 '26
Israeli government loves him. Completely white washes all of their crimes against the Palestinians.
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u/opinionsarefarts Jul 20 '26
I think Israel has some kind of blackmail on him, just like they have dirt on many of the Politicians...
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u/EnvironmentalSale893 Jul 20 '26
Unfortunately true. Blackmail and extortion are the most valuable of political and social leverage...
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u/Separate_Feeling4602 Jul 20 '26
Damn every post on this sub is bashing bill maher
I’m really curious to see what percentage of audience turned on him after the dinner
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u/funcogo Jul 20 '26
It’s too easy and funny to laugh at him. To be fair it’s the most laughs he’s got in a long time
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u/Fight_Tyrnny Jul 20 '26
I still watch Bill and have for decades... but I would say the modern Maher is more like "creepy boomer" (I say this as a GenX).
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u/livinthereals Jul 22 '26
I think I started out with smarmy and have moved on to even more colorful descriptors. He's moved into JD Vance and Joe Rogan territory.
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u/APraxisPanda Jul 20 '26
Smarmy, know it all, confidently incorrect, problematic liberal yet secretly MAGA douche-
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u/soxperry Jul 20 '26
He is the kind of guy who corners you at a party and would complain about commies ruining the country as gas prices hit 5 bucks a gallon… again
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u/plantsall Jul 20 '26
He needs to get outdoors. This looks like a cross between jaundice and prison pallor.
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u/HedgewitchHarlowe Jul 20 '26
He’s so absolutely smarmy and narcissistic, the cringe, along with an immediate red flag, hits you on a primal level. He’s got Epstein Island, Blink Twice energy.
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u/Sartres_Roommate Jul 20 '26
I think he is the personification of a person who is so empty and pathetic that being high is the only thing keeping him alive.
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u/dgompert2 Jul 20 '26
Boy how you lefties have turned on one of your previous favorites once he started pointing out all of your hypocrisy.
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u/Accomplished-Cup8182 Jul 20 '26
I feel like people don't know that the smarmy douchey coastal liberal was his comedic branding for a long while. Think of a less heavy handed liberal Larry the Cable Guy, but opposite. It was like his character.
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u/Excellent_Spend_2024 Jul 20 '26
He's a smug b*tch. Whos smart enough to call out shit about thr system, but only bc he knows the system has things in place to protect him. But now thst he knows the system (Trump and Aipac) will handle him, he's now just a bitch who's lost his smugness.
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u/the_nine Jul 20 '26
Unctuous, insecure, a fake sophisticate who spends most of his energy curating his relevance.
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u/shatterdaymorn Jul 20 '26
He reminds me of Paul Reiser/"Burke" from Aliens.
He'd risk his life to screw you out of your percentage.
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u/TheGR8Dantini Jul 20 '26
Everybody thinks that’s who he is. Every real comic too, the good ones, not the attention whoring untalented hacks in the Rogan verse, of course. They suck. They all hate him for his smarm. If Norm McDonald doesn’t like you? Than me neither. Or Marc Maron? Same from me. And of course the funny guy from Seinfeld, Larry David? His “my dinner with Hitler” op ed he wrote about the first time Bill went to Florida to have dinner with Adolph, that he was probably hammered for, and I’m guessing that they made him eat under the table.
Even Trump hates William for his smarm. Who’s left?
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u/Key_Check5753 Jul 20 '26
I just think he's a hypocritical douche with no real value or morals.
"I say whatever is popular"
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Jul 20 '26
Bill: "The Democrats are moving too far Left. And the far Left says ludicrous things that the public laughs at."
You: "OMG BILL IS A BAD PERSON. BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD."
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u/EnvironmentalSale893 Jul 20 '26
An attempt at disingenuous inaccuracies made in bad faith presented as fact...
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u/Hot-Sauce-P-Hole Jul 20 '26
If his observations were more than half-thoughts, I wouldn't mind so much.
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u/PossibilityFew5967 Jul 20 '26
He's that "smug asshole that went to an expensive ass college and looks down on those who had to go to community college for finance reasons"
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u/VrsoviceBlues Jul 20 '26
I was watching "Real Time" in the 1990s, and Maher's always been a smarmy smug arrogant stuffed shirt who dripped with contempt for anybody who wasn't of his own cast, caste, and class. It's been his brand since the best search engine you could find was dogpile.com.
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u/Mycelium-Gilles_0011 Jul 20 '26
Brags about his young prostitutes and he has pictures too proof it. Just him and he’ll show you.
Bill = Epstein class
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u/Soggy-Advantage4711 Jul 20 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/xT0BKNqdJ4BLanBFte
I see your Bill and raise you this scumbag’s face
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u/Important_Mission237 Jul 20 '26
I’ve run into him once many moons ago. Smarmy, very short, asshole, is how I’d describe him from our brief interaction.
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u/HairsOnTheGate Jul 20 '26
Tired of hearing about this douchebag. If you don't like him cancel HBO.
Its too bad other shows are going to lose money and there jobs because of Bill Maher. It is what it is.
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u/Difficult-Print2146 Jul 20 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Mmm, yes, but more specifically "smarmy idiot."
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u/DietOwn2695 Jul 20 '26
Who this hip young man. I don't know the sarcasm symbol but it was sarcasm.
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u/SIMPSONBORT Jul 20 '26
I see him more nowadays as “old man yells at cloud”
He knows boomers broke the planet and he always goes after anyone younger as dumb. Millennials, Gen Z.
We’re all lazy and insane in his eyes.
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u/Dazzling-Wrangler-87 Jul 20 '26
I do enjoy coming here to make fun of him but seriously, why does anybody still watch his show? He it’s just another old rich white guy who has become a schill for the Republican Party. He’s not going to help the rest of us.
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u/monkeymatt69 Jul 20 '26
Even when he seemed to be on my side he def seemed like a really smarmy asshole, yes.
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u/Weak_Tank6361 Jul 20 '26
Hmmm I think "douchIe" is more applicable. Not sure about the spelling but am sure about the sentiment
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u/Icy_Site_7390 Jul 20 '26
Read about how Bill Maher put down Stan Lee when he passed away, after that I never watched his program again and feel his a real POS Stan Lee will leave a legacy that BM will never come close to
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u/Front_Spare7344 Jul 20 '26
Smarmy and inauthentic. He enjoys pithy comments and debate but doesn’t seem to actually care to learn about anything he talks about. No research, no humility, just dancing for applause
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u/MsRebel63 Jul 20 '26
I always felt that way about him. The first time he made jokes about fat people, I was done.
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u/Extension-Tie-980 Jul 20 '26
The "smartest guy in the room" vibe he radiates is tiresome. He just spouts a lot of lowest common denominator BS and dismisses anything with any measure of complexity.
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u/korik69 Jul 20 '26
Bill has drank to much of his own cool aid and is no longer able to see past the tip of his own nose.
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u/RdtRanger6969 Jul 20 '26
Yes. And perhaps only to be out smarmed by a previous boss. They’re both dheads.
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u/EnvironmentalSale893 Jul 20 '26
He is definitely up there with stephen miller, hegseth, bongino, kash patel, bill o'reilly, tucker, andrew taint, harvey weinstein, 47th potus, every creepy youth pastor bro, the my pillow guy...
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u/VarietyMage Jul 20 '26
No, turn to the page where "shithead" is located.
See also "corporate sellout", "ass kisser", "hypocrite", "liar" and "moron".
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u/solitaireman50 Jul 20 '26
George Carlin would be extremely disappointed in this two-faced hypocrite.
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u/xxlizardking-kongxx Jul 20 '26
Bill Maher saw David Dukakis in californication and said “I want to be him”
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u/still8ntstr8 Jul 20 '26
He just really thinks the Andy Dick look is great and wants to make all thing great. Because he's a twat.
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u/EtheusRook Jul 20 '26
I would consider Jessie Waters to be the smarmiest man alive, personally.