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Trump calls Bill Maher "total loser" after White House dinners
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LOL, all that sucking up didn't really do much for Maher, I guess.
I still watch him as almost a hate-watch, and skip over the worst instances of his guests as they usually have very uninteresting things to say. His monologue has really gone downhill and his nonsense takes on trans and Israel/Palestine is just.....facepalm.
It's like he's someone that absorbed all the takes of the Murc's Law Media from c. 1990s (and the early 90s, before most people started using the 'net, not even the later 90s when the fever started to show signs of breaking, just before 9/11 set things back for a bit) and then just stayed in that mindset related to Israel especially.
He seems to have really internalized the bullshit narrative that being critical of Israel is "antisemitic". What a fucking hot steaming load that is.
Just found out about the 'I Hate Bill Maher' Podcast, where some comedian hate-watches Maher's show and then mocks him on a podcast. The roasting was so much funnier than Maher's attempts at jokes, though I slightly worry that it's a bit like The Necessary Conversation in that it might just be mocking a senile old person for being senile.
I've been loving Books That Kill podcast. So many authors needing a bit of a roast. I might check out the Maher one. I don't care that much either way about him. When I do watch him, I binge watch several episodes and have my fill for a while. Even with lots of skipping forward.
I'm not sure if it's more me or him changing or a bit of both, but I remember kinda moving into the "meh" stage on him over a decade ago, but still watching. It seems to get worse every year, though. Not sure if it really started with the Me Too thing and people like him seeming to concern-troll over the "cancelling" thing. No one is getting fucking cancelled, though, and I'm sick of hearing people like Maher talking about it as if it's a real issue or something. And then after Gaza, JFC. He's one of the ones clutching his pearls over the blue hairs protesting on campus, too, IIRC...he's so protective of Israel, holy shit.
I can't even hate-watch him. The way he delivers his unfunny jokes while smirking like he's the smartest guy on the planet and some pathetic loser guest chuckles off camera is completely unbearable for me.
I tried a few years back and I couldn't either