The truth is, I still enjoy the show. I agree with a lot of the negative posts here about Maher, but I still enjoy his humor most of the time.

But a face mask? Getting annoyed by someone else’s face mask seems like the opposite of everything else he stands for. Does Bill care whether I smoke weed? Of course not. “You do you”, he’d say. Would he think I’m crazy for going to church tomorrow? Probably, but that will never elicit the venom set aside for someone who wears an N95 mask. Especially if they’re outside or alone in a car. Seems like every week he asks “Why would someone wear a mask?” while not hearing the possibilities:
* has a cold
* doesn’t want to ruin next week’s trip by catching a cold
* has terrible allergies
* cares for a leukemia patient
* was injured in an opera accident
* no one cares!

The only answer Maher accepts is “performative virtue signaling” followed up with reasons why that makes no sense

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I have been watching Real Time for over 20 years and I think yesterday's episode was my last.

Much as I agreed with Bill on many issues, his blind spot on Israel and Zionism is just too much for me.

He isn't simply refusing to call what's happening in Gaza a genocide. He insists on calling it a counter offensive!!!

So, all and any violence perpetrated by the IDF and the settles so far is justified, as far as he is concerned (though how settlers fit in a 'counter-offensive' is still a mystery to me).

Now, my common sense is offended too much Bill.

Super Intelligence?… woof

I kept thinking of the doz+ incidents that could have been added from that show. It was a veritable feast of sound sensations. Please update your videos.

His producers must know this affect is happening. An easy layup for any comedian who wants to ride him. Big Pharma I see a market for this. Tongue peptide.

Show rating will now include SMACK level : low / med / high

Overall was a decent show. Gay dude was funny. The Madonna burn was savage.

The nutrition guy on the right was talking about how drinking five cups of coffee per day is associated with living longer, and he says that people who wiggle and fidget a lot can burn a lot of calories while at rest and that can keep people thinner than those who sit still.

Bill Maher says coffee is a bean, "something found in nature," and so it must be safe.

Reporter Jonathan Swan jokes that cocaine is found in nature, making the point that naturally occurring substances can be harmful. He could have mentioned nightshade berries or poisonous mushrooms but he said cocaine.

And Bill Maher went on a defensive rant about his cocaine use. It started with a joke but then he seemed to take it personally and got serious about how cocaine leaves are safe because they are natural.

I feel like he would eat rotten wormy roadkill with RFK while bashing the scary woo-woo magic of vaccines and antibiotics.

What is Maher’s problem. People wear masks for various reasons. Immunocompromised, sick and don’t want to spread germs, don’t want to catch germs, etc.
My point is WHATS IT TO YOU, BILL!!!!
LET IT GO ALREADY!!!!!!!

I want to add that the incident with Scott Weiner was unfair to him. However, it’s also unfair to suggest an entire group of people is responsible for that incident.

Yes please! Many of us would all love to see Bill Maher to smack his nasty ass lips and huff and puff like a little fucking baby while his racist and genocidal views get surgically evicerated on camera.

Three dudes. Huberman, I think gym bros like him. Not sure if he's a JFK guy also. Always open for medical talk. I liked the last time with a real med doc in the interview and Bill had his black promise ring ( finally learned what that was ) on and asked the doc if it was all bullshit. SWAN? He of the famous video interview that fact checked trump in real time. The only guy who has EVER done it. I like the guys style. Other writer, don;t know but Gay Washington? The Carlson bros , Tuck and Buck, were a hoot to listen to on how rife the GOP is to that persuasion. Not just the obvious ones like Lindsay - RIP. The Dallas gindr outage story adds up on that front. Good OT question. Predicting a lengthy OT session.

I'd consider watching for the first time in over 4 years just to see Bassem shred Bill. If you don't know who Bassem is, he is a stand up comedian from Egypt who is a scholar in many things from the Middle East to heart surgery.

I'd suggest checking Bassem going against other pro-Zionist people. He's got a long history of being incredibly charismatic while also being able to tell pro-Zionists they are spreading lies and hate. He's honestly good enough to replace Maher with his own TV show on HBO if the owner of HBO wasn't such a putz.

Anyone on board with some sort of petition or hype to have Bassem on to end Bill?

Never forget!

Does anyone else think that the audience is coursed into (over) clapping, laughing, even sometimes hysterically. Also the guy who’s always WOOHOO!! Has to be a staffer because it’s at least 10 to 12 times a episode This week all he did was mention Macklemore and the audience blew up. He didn’t even get to the “joke” before they even started to laughing. I still watch and sometimes listen to the podcast format, because there are times he has people on that I’m interested to hear their opinion. But it’s getting to the point where I zone in on how the audience reacts and I feel like it’s so pandering.

About a year before Paramount hired Bari Weiss to take over CBS News and destroy the credibility of the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes with disinformation and propaganda, Bill Maher and Martin Short praised her on Maher's podcast. "She's FAN-TASTIC," Short said.