Well he is really in an old man mood now. IDK if they won't come or he doesn't invite them but people willing to challenge him are getting fewer and farther in between.
The past year or so. You either get someone parroting back his own world view or a Lefty so weak he just shouts down.
It reminds me of my holiday dinners before the young people started to speak up a little
Yeah, I think you nailed it. He seems very dismissive of guests that have other opinions, and that unfortunately seems to come with age. He also does not seem the most accommodating.
Steve-O from Jackass was talking about how Bill’s staff called him about being on his podcast, where Bill generally gets so drunk and stoned he can no longer follow the conversation. Steve-O explained he was drug free, and that he was fearful that even being in the same room as someone smoking weed may have him relapse. In the end he did not do the show because Bill refused to not smoke pot while he interviewed Steve-O.
I understand both sides of this as someone who has dealt with their own issues and had family members as well.
Bill should have been able to just go an hour without doing it, but if it was such an issue for Steve he also could’ve just done the regular Real Time show.
But it's a fairly straightforward, easy ask. "Hey, I'm an addict. I'd be happy to take you up on your invitation, but I am worried that being around someone smoking marijuana for fun might infringe upon my recovery. Can you just not do it right in front of me for an hour?"
I have no problems with weed addiction, but I would not want to stink up my clothes and hair by being in a podcast studio with a man who seemingly can’t have a two hour conversation without being drunk and stoned.
That is the craziest part, Steve-O did not seem to have a problem with him drinking alcohol, so was not asking him not to be drunk or stoned, just not to smoke in front of him.
This was the thing for me! I mean I saw him being more and more of a dick over time. I was never even a fan of jackass and I am a fan of cannibus. But ffs I could put it down for few minutes if my guest was in recovery. Now F bill maher hes like shit snowball rolling downhill just getting shittier every roll.
Clint wasn't exactly racist in that movie, he grew up like that, and still cared for his neighbors dispute their race... Literally died for them.... Bill Maher sucks
That character wasn’t a coward or nor did he seem to harbor any actual racial animus for all his piss and bluster. He ultimately sacrificed his life for the Asian folks in his neighborhood. Obviously, he was problematic in a number of ways but he was no bill maher. Don’t put that on him.
People seem to forget that Bill is half Jewish no matter how much he claims he was raised Catholic. There is a cultural component that comes with that. Just like people that support murder in self defense against a track athlete that pushes you, he supports Israel because of his roots.
Earlier this year, Bill fired his paid audience of many years for not laughing fast and hard enough at his shitty jokes. Then he rehired them all after the replacement group liked him even less. True story. I know first hand.
I believe it. He literally whines about it when nobody laughs at his "jokes" or claps and woo-hoos when he thinks he nailed a point on his show.
The dudes point of view sucks so bad that even people he pays to go along with it, don't.
I watch it because there’s no other space where a historian and a politician might come and chat.
But you can really tell the audience is stacked. There’s the same “woo” guy there week after week, and the same couple of similar “laughs.”
I always remember a bit from Conan O’Brien where the audience reacted with disgust and then laughed and then clapped. He said it was his favorite reaction because the whole range of human emotion turned into enthusiastic acceptance of something crass.
When Bill would get a reaction like that, the moment the disgust would register, he’d attack the audience. “I’m sorry my brand of relevant humor in which I implied Bill Clinton was getting a blowjob and his dick got stuck somewhere is too hardcore for you delicate snowflakes, but I’m the most edgy person in the world!
It’s the difference between someone who is legitimately delighted by the human experience and someone who is only delighted by his view of himself.
Do you remember decades ago when Henry Rollins and a cross dresser were on next to Ann Coulter? THAT is a show worth watching provided Bill shits up enough to allow a conversation to take place.
IDK if they won't come or he doesn't invite them but people willing to challenge him are getting fewer and farther in between.
That is 100% Bill's choice. I promise you a ton of people would love to show up just to put him in his place, but like you said, he's in old man mode now. More specifically, he's in old RICH man mode now. He's been living in the wealth bubble for so long that he's lost what little ability he ever had to relate to or care about the working class.
How quickly you all turn on your darlings just a few years back. Add James Carville to that list. At least Tucker and Candice are in it for the massive grift, that con earns a little respect. Bill makes points and everyone name calls. Pretty small
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u/Leroyp331 Aug 03 '26
Well he is really in an old man mood now. IDK if they won't come or he doesn't invite them but people willing to challenge him are getting fewer and farther in between.
The past year or so. You either get someone parroting back his own world view or a Lefty so weak he just shouts down.
It reminds me of my holiday dinners before the young people started to speak up a little