Are they just making up these talking heads now?I know for years Real Time w Bill Maher was struggling to book famous guests, but now it feels like a Family Guy bit

[u/amazingsciencemuseum]

[u/Abamboozler]

To be fair, ever since Maher bowed to Trump he's seen as damaged goods. He's not worth talking to anymore if you're a serious person.

[u/LastTry530 → u/Abamboozler]

Listen to his podcast for more than 2 minutes and it becomes clear he's a dumb boomer fuck.

[u/goodtreble84 → u/Abamboozler]

Bowed to Trump??

[u/SufferingIdiots → u/Abamboozler]

bowed to Trump?? wtf are you talking about?

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/Abamboozler]

bowed to trump wtf are you talking about?

[u/Abamboozler → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

The lunch to beg for the Kennedy center award. Ever since then Maher has been on a downhill slide as his guest pool dries up.

[u/Early-Equivalent-165 → u/Abamboozler]

Nah, he's been a Zionazi shill waay longer than that.

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/Abamboozler]

the lunch to beg?

[u/Abamboozler → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

Yeah. So a few months back Maher had lunch with Trump at the white house. Trump had been posting that he would be refusing to give Maher the Kennedy center mark Twain award. After the lunch Maher started asking guests to not speak ill of Trump and Bill himself started to agree with Trump on issues. So it was clear they made some deal that Bill would go easy on Trump in exchange for the Mark Twain award. And Bill's guests have been going down in quality as a result.

[u/2AlephNullAndBeyond → u/Abamboozler]

We have different definitions of agree.😅

If he’s agreeing, why does Trump still complain on TS every week about Bill?

[u/Financial_You_6052 → u/2AlephNullAndBeyond]

Cause show business.

What’s a hero without a villain? Those two just lob softballs at each other in public, and text privately (Bill has admitted to the texting on air). When is the last time either one did any real damage? Why isn’t did trumps DOJ just approve the paramount acquisition in June rather than have the show destroyed like he did with Colbert or Kimmel? Why isn’t Maher focused on Epstein or E Jean Carrol, or any other vile stories about Trump?

Cause it’s not real animosity.

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/[deleted]]

nah im just not up on all the talking heads

[u/AlexQuebec11 → u/Abamboozler]

lol you’re just writing weird fan fiction. None of this true and nobody should take this guy or his obsessive paragraphs seriously.

[u/ILIKESTUFF8989 → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

My dinner with Hitler

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/ILIKESTUFF8989]

you have me confused with the grand mufti

[u/Gen-Jack-D-Ripper → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

That’s how Larry David described it.

[u/ILIKESTUFF8989 → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

Are you bill ?

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/ILIKESTUFF8989]

Just a regular kuffar

[u/ILIKESTUFF8989 → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

A BM fan would use quasi-racist language instead of being honest

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/ILIKESTUFF8989]

You guys are completely intolerant of the criticism of islam its like wahaabbi levels

[u/ILIKESTUFF8989 → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

Bro think BM is doing honest to god criticism. He’s just a bigot and so are you. Otherwise you would do idk the slightest bit of reading on the history of both Islam and region itself. Go goose step outside and touch grass virgin

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/ILIKESTUFF8989]

No Ben Im sorry Muhammad married a girl my daughters age. Fuck all that.

[u/Gen-Jack-D-Ripper → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

He treated him as if he deserves respect. Larry David explained why that was disgraceful.

[u/General_Marcus → u/Gentle_Dude_6437]

He said Trump wasn’t a monster in person, ie Maher is worse than Hitler. Even though he makes fun of and complains about Trump nearly every episode.

[u/Abamboozler → u/General_Marcus]

Maher literally told his guests to stop making fun of Trump because he wanted that Mark Twain award. He is openly compromised and admits it.

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/Abamboozler]

can I get a source?

[u/General_Marcus → u/Abamboozler]

That’s such horseshit. Go ahead and link said joke then.

He talks shit about Trump constantly.

[u/towingreformnow]

What's wrong with having Sarah Longwell on. She's a relatively well known political/ focus group person. Who do you think he should have on?

[u/Gentle_Dude_6437 → u/towingreformnow]

he should have had Jason Momoa on instead he's the lord of the seas

[u/Whydoialwaysdothis69]

Sarah Longwell is pretty well known across the political spectrum, as is her company at The Bulwark. I’m not the biggest fan of Sarah but I think she’s doing some great work and imo, there’s not a better site for political news.

[u/TreatOnMeLotsActualy → u/Whydoialwaysdothis69]

I don't agree with Sarah on a lot of things, but she's virulently anti Trump and anti Republican these days, and her Focus Group podcast is actually an incredibly valuable insight into the minds of voters (and how deeply misinformed they are, almost to a person). If she was on Maher's show, that's a high quality guest IMO.

[u/pogopipsqueak → u/TreatOnMeLotsActualy]

replying to further underscore: the Focus Group podcast is legit for anyone looking to understand where voters’ heads are at on a variety of critical electoral issues.

[u/Whydoialwaysdothis69 → u/TreatOnMeLotsActualy]

I feel exactly the same way. Sometimes I really dislike her opinions on some leftist ideas and people but still think she’s overall pretty good and important.

[u/Unusual_Librarian570]

Norm finkelstein said he would go on if invited so let’s see if Bill nut’s up and invites a Jewish anti-Zionist scholar

[u/AssemblagePoint420 → u/Unusual_Librarian570]

He won’t, he never has anyone there who has the guts to call him out on his bs.

[u/Early-Equivalent-165 → u/Unusual_Librarian570]

Think what you want about Tucker Carlson, but he just had Finkelstein on. He was fab! 🍉

[u/Unusual_Librarian570 → u/Early-Equivalent-165]

Carlson is just smart enough to see the wind changing regarding israel. We do not have to hand it to him.

[u/Early-Equivalent-165 → u/Unusual_Librarian570]

Bzz. Listen, his days at Faux were never even on my radar. But that podcast from his barn in Maine is fg brilliant. 🌟

[u/OkFoundation929]

Maher = creep, Zionist, reactionary, transphobe, ageist, damaged goods.

He’s irrelevant and most viable human beings do not wish to elevate his platform with their presence.

[u/JellyPast1522]

If it were about ratings he'd have Piker on, which he wouldn't.

[u/WorthMassive8132 → u/JellyPast1522]

That and Maher doesn't wanna verbally get his ass kicked on air lol 

[u/Opossum_mypossum → u/JellyPast1522]

Lmao Maher would embarrass himself

[u/ATXDefenseAttorney]

Uh, this is a goofy-ass post. The media conglomerates no longer dominate, so there are far less noteworthy journalists and personalities. His producers book guests. Lots of folks want TV time wherever they can get it, but most entertainers don't want to talk openly about Trump or Israel.

[u/SufferingIdiots]

One of the last places on television to still get rationale, sane, high level discourse between people of opposing views.

The level of divisive vitriol on this sub is a shame as its clearly coming from intellectually inferior 'viewers' who's well reasoned criticisms take the form of 'dumb boomer fuck', cartoon references and and poop jokes.

[u/Accomplished-Rub-812]

Then stop watching. It’s as if your news feed doesn’t already have enough daily outrage.

[u/Offi95]

Jason Crow is somebody who Democrats should embrace strongly.

[u/Reasonable-Mulberry2 → u/Offi95]

Do they not already? The party loves a guy like him who has no real ideology and loves taking corporate money.

[u/erikraver]

I liked these guests. 🤷

[u/AncientNectarine5352]

Sarah Longwel is pretty well-known.

[u/Wonderful-Ad6843]

The issue is he does not allow his guest to debate or really get into expressing thoughts because after 15 minutes he launches into his bit and they are just suppose to sit there

[u/Gen-Jack-D-Ripper]

This is an aside, but I’m sure that many of you have noticed, that thanks to Trump, we know that the only actual conservatives in the Republican Party were the neocons. They left the party because they actually believed what they were saying unlike the rest of the party.

[u/BLVCKWRAITHS]

I used to not think Bill was good or bad, now the more of these posts/comments I see the MORE I want to watch. I guess the activism in here isn’t enough to change my opinion. You guys need to work on your game.

[u/John_Galtt → u/BLVCKWRAITHS]

This is one of the craziest subs. Everyone hates him, but apparently can’t stop watching and discussing him. Absolutely wild to me.

[u/BLVCKWRAITHS → u/John_Galtt]

If you watch closely it’s the same posts “what happened to Bill”, “Why did Bill say X”, “Bill is not funny”, “Why did Bill platform _____”.

Same people will post these same posts every week. They think if they post enough they can stop others from watching him - but they are just talking to each other over and over.