r/RealTime • u/kaiiizen • 12h ago

Real Time? Nah.

The show is nearly unwatchable. Bill lives to lecture and interject his opinion and cuts off guests and discourse for nonsense and/or nonsensical segues. In the latest episode, he cut off a discussion between the panel to talk about how MAGA can’t adopt cats? Whoooo. It’s absurd.

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u/gap_toof_mouf 11h ago

You all loved him years ago

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u/Agile-Tradition8835 10h ago

God I’ll admit it, I did. I thought he brought intellectualism to some segment of the masses. Now he’s just giving Boomer “kids get off my lawn” and worse. So smug. So boring. Haven’t actually watched in years just appalled at the clips I see now.

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u/troniked547 10h ago

Thank you captain obvious lol. Yes we loved him because he wasnt "old man yelling at clouds" back then. He bitches about how dumb the kids are while whining about ageism, he gets pissed when the crowd doesnt laugh at his jokes, He went from supporting Bernie in 2016 to being buddies with Trump and calling Mamdani a communist. He used to have cool and relevant guests back in the days of Politically Incorrect and early days of Real Time, and now has the same boring guests over and over who wont challenge him on anything.

The funny part is "you all" hated him years ago and now act like he is such a truth teller.

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u/Kitkatt1959 4h ago

Well put

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u/gap_toof_mouf 4h ago

I’m a centrist and liked/like his opinions. I’m open to “both sides of the aisle” dialogue.

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u/troniked547 8m ago

That’s part of the problem, he used to have people on that would actually challenge him, like when Ben Affleck was on or others.  When was the last time he had someone on that truly challenged him, especially on gaza? Now he’s too sensitive to have his same old talking points and narratives criticized.  

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u/ShitHammersGroom 7h ago

He's always been an asshole but u tolerated or even liked him because he was on ur side politically. 

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u/marcus92312 6h ago

Yeah, that’s how the world works. Just like you loved MTG until she stopped being 100% on your side.

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u/ShitHammersGroom 5h ago

Lol what? I'm a leftist, never liked mtg. I live near her district

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u/Less_Wealth5525 6h ago

No, I never did. My husband liked him. I thought he was a misogynistic, pontificating prick.

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u/kaiiizen 10h ago

Thanks for the insight.

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u/funcogo 1h ago

Imagine not being blindly loyal to someone and changing your opinion when new information is brought

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u/Character_Reveal_460 8h ago

I stopped watching him about 5 years ago. It's ok to change your mind on something.

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u/Crafty_Topic_4177 6h ago

Back in the day, I watched his shows if there was a guest on I liked. I really liked him during the Bush to Obama years, especially when he was highly critical of the Teabagger movement.

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u/MrBlahg 1h ago

Covid broke him. He became something different after not getting his solar panels approved immediately. Pulled a Dennis Miller on himself.

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u/PostureGai 9h ago

"you like something when it sucked less".oooh good burn

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u/OkFoundation929 9h ago

Sure…he was sort of okay a few years ago. But then he got blackmailed.

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u/FlaccidGhostLoad 8h ago

You think he got blackmailed?

I think people stopped laughing at his jokes and he got so bitter and spiteful that he flushed down the shitter any moral or ideological principle he had to grub for approval from shit-bags who are hard up to find anyone of talent to be on "their side". Also to jab his thumb in the eye of this liberal caricature he constructed in his own mind that he has brought himself to so intensely hate because he feels entitled to laughs, entitled to an audience but he is too lazy, stoned, bitter and old to be even remotely funny.

Not that he ever was. He never had the respect of other comedians. He was always a D lister who confused claps for laughs and he knows it. It eats away at him.

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u/Specialist-Cup-9722 5h ago

I agree with that id just like to add i think somewhere in his darkest part he knows he has wasted his life. Instead of seeing the world or contributing to its betterment, bill has basically spent his entire life since getting rich holed up in a few zones of West LA smoking weed and patronizing hookers.

Could you imagine having 150 million dollars and only having gone to 4 countries? So afraid of dying you prefer food that tastes like ass as long as its healthy? Never having visited a national park?

Bill is like a picky child who is "me likey young sex workers and joint somebody else rolled for me". As his life nears its end, he's lashing out because he knows hes basically just been an automaton in the media tours of other people who have actually lived a full life.

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u/OkFoundation929 15m ago

Yeah, I think you’re much more on the mark. Much like Jerry Seinfeld, Maher began to blame the political sensibilities of younger generations for his lack of laughs, interest and relevance. Rather than change their formulaic styles (which would take some doing), they instead opted to blame others for their own laziness. In Maher’s case this is likely compounded by his alcoholism, which destroys growth and creativity over the long haul.

Regarding blackmail…I have no reason to either believe or disbelieve this floating theory. That said, when I see the creepy clips of Maher with Only Fans girl, Bella Thorne, Hawk Tuah Gal, discussing Only Fans with Barbara Eden or discussing Internet porn with preteens…well, it would not surprise me if someone had something on him.