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HBO Really Needs to Cancel Real Time with Bill Maher.

posted 7 years ago by TMC-4 (19571)
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Tonight's episode really was insufferable. Maher and a bunch of millionaire LA and New York snobs punching down on the poor and shitting on progressives. And I understand that Trump sucks but, essentially calling the guy's wife a whore every week is just utterly classless. Nobody would have stood for that for any other First Lady at least for a show on a major network.
It is becoming clear why Maher has gone down to two panel guests. He must be increasingly unable to book a full panel because no one with any class and certainly no one under 40 would want to appear on that increasingly snobbish shit show.
You've overstayed your welcome Bill, time to fade off into the sunset playing the Holiday Inn lounge circuit in the Upper Midwest as you were always meant to.

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[–] JordanPLL (15) 7 years ago

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[–] ebhaynz (3614) 7 years ago

I used to be a huge fan of Bill's and even though I'm not a fan of Trump at all I can't stand these shows that make dozens of jokes about Trump and his family/cabinet EVERY SHOW. The jokes usually are more cringeworthy than funny yet the audiences scream with laughter. Really not my type of comedy, I want it real, not forced.

My advice to Bill: GOD, STOP IT WITH YOUR DOZENS/HUNDREDS OF TRUMP JOKES!

[–] therefdotcom (964) 7 years ago

they would stop by themselves, if trump managed to live 5 minutes out of his life without embarrassing himself and the whole country.

[–] ebhaynz (3614) 7 years ago

Yes, but hasn't our country fallen so far that we deserve people like Hillary or Trump? Not to be a cynic but our culture has spawned tens of millions of people that mindlessly devote themselves to people like this.

Plus, I don't pay a lot of attention to Trump(or Obama or Clinton or Bushes) and thus they really don't affect my life very much. yes, there are issues that need to be taken care of but so often our leaders a cartoonish characters. WITH VERY LITTLE SUBSTANCE..JUST P U P P E T S.

[–] therefdotcom (964) 7 years ago

i could not agree more about the first paragraph, but i think with the second one you are making it a bit easy for yourself. the thing is, that trump's presidency is giving the ultra right an enormous amount of power, which in comparison is a whole different beast altogether.

[–] ebhaynz (3614) 7 years ago

Maybe it's just the pendulum has swung from the far left to the far right. Insignificant 1st world problems?
Right now the last few years my job is the same, my family is the same, my financial situation is satisfying. Yes, corporate America owns the U.S. now but it's been that way for some time. Decline, right on time, what happened to the dream sublime?

[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

"New Rules" is always great though ;)