• mycatiskai@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    He is too busy preparing to prove how insultingly unfunny he is. He won’t be doing all the parts of the show that require writers so he is just going to be profoundly wrong and shite for 60 minutes.

    I heard he pays writers better than all the other late night shows because as a writer you have to deal with working with Bill Maher.

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      1 year ago

      The worst thing about Maher as a performer is that he berates his audience when they don’t like his joke. I did professional stand-up for a few years and that’s like breaking unspoken rule #1. Even if the room is a shit room, you don’t act like they’re a shit room.

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        1 year ago

        I never noticed how insidious this was. I thought it was really funny at first. Like oh, I groaned and he’s reminding me to have fun. But he has taken it to mean his audience needs to be exposed to grifters and harmful talking points disguised as “challenging ideas”

        I mean I really kept watching Bill after he dropped the N-word, I am a die hard comedy fan and it’s effectively impossible to cross the line with me. But Bill Maher is completely full of shit.

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        1 year ago

        Stewart Lee does a bit where he breaks this rule deliberately, but it works explicitly because part of the joke is the audience realising what he’s doing, and also because it’s planned in advance so he can make sure he’s got it right