Bill Maher

[JaiDee]

For my money he is the best - and the smartest- social commentator we have in the USA today by a long shot.

And funny as hell to boot.....his commentaries on Sarah Palin and that douchebag from Texas with the big ears who practically destroyed this country are national treasures.

[strocube]

I'm ambivalent about this dude; while I like his show and some of the points he raises and his jabs at the right in this country, he strikes me a smug little prick. I'm not a violent guy, but something about that dude makes me wanna bitch-slap him.

[Guest]

I saw his film "religilous"(?)..i think i spelt it correctly......its a comedy documentary about the absurdities of religion.I recommend it.I can only watch his shows on youtube,but I think he's good,better than John Stewart ,who is on tv in the uk nearly every night.I think if Bill Hicks had done a talk show,it would be a lot like Bill Maher's.

[blonde_havoc]

I used to catch his show Politically Incorrect before it was unfairly axed. I catch his new show on Youtube occasionally. I actually like him a lot. Yeah he comes across as a smug douche bag sometimes, but I like him a LOT better than Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I just can't get into those two.

[JaiDee]

I'd agree that he is smug and arrogant, but he is intelligent and funny at the same time so they kind of offset each other. He needs a larger audience than HBO, that's for sure; he has a valuable message to send to most Americans if they would just turn off Rush and O'Reilly and listen to him.

[Torurot]

and now Palin because "they" think she is hot! FFS

[JaiDee]

Bill Maher would never allow Sarah Palin NEAR the set where his show is filmed, he would be too embarrassed; as would any mainstream news organization like CBS or CNN, et al ........ not even Comedy Central, because she is a dimwit, plain and simple.


You FOX news fans; how's it make you feel to know that halfwit is now part of the news crew you follow? She fits in perfectly with all the other bleached-blonde news-models they have there and the empty-suit pretty boys; when a network needs flashing lights, loud sounds and attractive people {but no substance} to keep people watching I believe it speaks volumes about the kind of viewers they attract.

[Nemisis]

I think Bill Maher is OK, I never miss a show, but I don't think he's funny at all...... new season starts this month, doesn't it?

[JaiDee]

Yups, he had a few already....I catch the "new rules'' and his commentary on Youtube every week.

[whore]

 Just finished about an hour of watching Bill Mahers stuff. I voted Yes, he's good.

I liked the Al sharpton gay joke in one of the videos. Very funny.

[alan1chef]

Maher is not a social commentator, he is a liberal commentator. He is not a political satirist, he is a liberal joke teller. He picks only on the conservatives and defends the liberals. He is not funny, he is boring and one-sided. Stewart and Colbert are Maher clones.

Real political satire and social commentary picks on both sides equally... like The Capitol Steps, George Carlin, or Richard Pryor.

[JaiDee]

(alan1chef @ Feb. 02 2010,10:32) George Carlin

Probably the funniest man of all time R.I.P.

Maher says he is a Libetarian ...... but I'd agree Chef, he's a liberal no matter how you slice it.

The other side has the equally-smart Dennis Miller to match him, he has become quite a rightie over the years.

[Nemisis]

(JaiDee @ Feb. 01 2010,21:47) Yups, he had a few already....I catch the "new rules'' and his commentary on Youtube every week.

My favorite part of the show............ a lot of good observations in it.

But I watch all 3 ..... The Daily Show, when it observes flip-flopping politicians saying one thing today, when they have said the total opposite 6 weeks or 6 months previous. Colbert in his neo-con style, ever since he did that Bush-roast, at the White House Press dinner a few years back. But to be fair they are hitting Obama and the Dem's lately, and quite rightly so, and I think they will be hitting them harder as time goes on.

Maher is more anti religion than anything which I like about him, and I have that documentary he made............... bit like Penn & Teller's Bullshit. But being a  Buddhist I always wondered why he and people like him (Carlin, even Dawkins), never touch the subject, until I saw Oliver Stone on as a guest, which he understands like I do that it is a philosophy and a way of thinking. But then when I look around me in Thailand, all these temples, idols, and robes, make it a religion, not a philosophy.

But George Carling was the man (RIP)

[blonde_havoc]

(JaiDee @ Feb. 02 2010,13:35)   The other side has the equally-smart Dennis Miller to match him, he has become quite a rightie over the years.

Dennis Miller is an extremely intelligent guy. It's too bad he gets the "Rush" treatment nowadays, because if anyone actually listened to his show they'd see he's nothing like Rush. He's actually supported a lot of what Obama has done. He's also strangely agnostic, and some of his questioning about Haiti has been pretty controversial (in an "If there was a god, why would god treat Haiti like this?"). It's true he panders to his audience occasionally, but you get the sense that he really cares about topics like domestic terror, free market capitalism, and personal responsibility. All talk shows pander to their audience occasionally too. I know that doesn't make it right, but if you criticize one you have to criticize the other.

[JaiDee]

Don't get me wrong, I think Miller is great and have liked him ever since his SNL days;  I even saw him do stand-up once in Boston in the 90's and he was excellent and extremely smart.  His radio show IS still good today, but it goes totally against the grain of his support for the Iraq war and his weekly appearances on the O'Reilly factor, where he comes across as a shill for the right; too bad, really. On his show he sounds like a moderate; but by appearing on FOX he loses all credibility in that department.

 He has lost a lot of friends in Hollywood these past few years, Sean Penn probably the most prominent, probably just by appearing on FOX.  But for my money he and Maher are probably the 2 smartest people in the scene today, right and left respectively.