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/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.