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Bizarre... is that all there is?

posted 10 years ago by rgcustomer
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The show started off well enough, with the motorcade between theatres.

But it immediately went off the rails and never recovered. Keith Olbermann & Michael Moore's plainly unprepared (in all sorts of ways) commentary was a bust. Then Bill presented 40-45 minutes of jokes on Republicans, all of which were either re-runs or easily predictable.

I mean, I love to joke about Republicans too, but wow... that's a pretty shallow well if that's all you can pull out of it.

And, inexplicably, to insult a large portion of your audience with the last joke, one of the only jokes not about Republicans, is a truly dick move.

Is Bill Maher past it? I think so.

[–] itssosublime 10 years ago

The opening sequence with Olbermann and Moore was painful. It really did appear as if the two had been hurried into place and mic'd up just in time for air and had no clue whatsoever on how to proceed. But, whatever...it was supposed to be over-the-top campy.

The real issue was with the audience itself, in my opinion. By the end of the show Maher was clearly exhausted, and thoroughly fed up with being heckled by a bunch of people who were only there to try to interrupt and ruin the show. If you don't like Maher, don't pay to go to the man's show to shout a bunch of inane garbage at the stage like a total whack job. THIS is why he said to himself, okay, you guys can go *beep* yourselves - here's something I know you won't be able to handle! I would agree that he wasn't at his best. But we're talking about a senior citizen here who just did a live, hour-long show on location, then jogged several blocks through the streets of D.C. to stand for the next 65 minutes and try to entertain a crowd, whom he by right expected to be there, for the most part, because they subscribe to his viewpoints. Give the guy a break, it's not as if he doesn't put in work.

[–] P-K-One 10 years ago

I think a the problem is that the material was, in part, word for word rehashes of his new rules.

"To become a saint you need two confirmed miracles. Confirmed, no *beep*

Word for word what he said when John Paul II was beatified after the first confirmed miracle.

Sure, I laughed about it the first time I heard it but it's just not so funny to hear it again. The show probably would have been a lot more entertaining for people who do not know his show but then again, those people would not be interested in watching his standup.