![]() If Bill Maher and HBO are supposed to represent some sort of standard of what prestige TV has come to mean - the sense that it’s a place for erudite opinions or “mature” themes and adult conversations - then maybe we need to flush some of these turds, as well as prestige TV that's willing to stoop to cheap tabloid sensationalism, down the content hole for good.Clapter comedy threatened to overtake stand-up during the Trump era, as audiences weary of unintentional black humor in the news turned to pop culture’s clear-eyed court jesters just to feel sane. When that wave hits, will there be any place for shows like Real Time? Or networks that play fast and loose with hate speech? Let’s sure as shit hope not. It can see the content bubble looming like some tsunami on the horizon. And maybe they’re right.īut HBO should know better. This is Hollywood’s version of penance: Keep doing the bad thing but throw money at something with good media optics. A good thing doesn’t undo the bad thing that you’re conveniently ignoring. Unfortunately, morality or having any sort of politics doesn’t work like that. But, also, let’s let a white POS use the N-word on the same network. It gave a black comedian her own show and it's good? Kudos! Bravo! Let’s get some awards recognition. So who lets Bill Maher do this? HBO, obviously, a network that seems to operate under a moral debit/credit system. There are many factors contributing to why Trump is president, and the center-left's propaganda machine - Maher included - is likely part of that calculus. Maher obviously needs to go (tell your mom, or whoever’s HBO GO password you use, to cancel their subscription), but he won’t leave until they pry that stage away from his cold, lifeless hands. He both hates liberals and is their accidental official mascot. Maher is always waiting in the wings to fire off some “anti-PC” hot take about how liberals are stupid before parroting the most inane liberal tropes, like entertaining hysterical Russian conspiracy theories. These entertainers-cum-pundits have no politics except the politics of self-promotion. Bill Maher is Milo is Alex Jones is Mike Cernovich. Why do you do it? Is it because Bill Maher speaks to some part of your lizard brain that hates Islam or POC? If so, maybe you should check that out.īut there’s no difference between Maher and any of the putrid pundits on the right. If you’re left of the Republican Party and for some reason still watch this program, ask yourself, “Why? Why do I do this thing that I know is bad?” It’s bad. He’s also been spewing Islamophobic horseshit for ages, espousing all manner of atrocious politics via hacky, ’80s-style stand-up bits on multiple networks. But, as many are right to point out, it’s not just that word. Maher has been called out for using the N-word in the past by one black ex-girlfriend in particular who claimed he would use it regularly, as if it were acceptable behavior. Same as shitheels like him practically always do. Just like the cops who get off for “doing their jobs,” Maher rests on the defense that comedy is a sacred place for bad politics. But the point is: He got away with it, again. Maher knows that HBO probably will let him say whatever he wants forever, being that it isn't beholden to advertisers. That’s his pattern: two steps forward, 10 steps and a few racist slurs back. For every good thing Maher tries to do to make up for his mistakes, he finds a way to do something doubly stupid. Since then, he's sputtered out an apology and continued business as usual - whether that’s having black guests on his subsequent show publicly flagellate him for a bit or having the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News on to find common ground. His most notable fuck-up of late was, of course, using the term “house n*****” during a taping of his show Real Time With Bill Maher three weeks - or 7,000 news cycles - ago. Maher has been broadcast comedy/politics' enfant terrible for as long as anyone can remember, but he truly seems to be living on borrowed time since his most recent series of face-plants. Bill Maher is a rotting legume, somewhere between two weeks and two decades past its prime.
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