When you look at the ratings of Real Time over the last 16 years, viewership has continued to climb. It seems the more controversy the show generates, the more people watch.
Also, because HBO has more subscribers than ever, more people are apt to watch on Sunday nights. You can say this thanks to the programming block also containing the very popular Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , which resumes its new season this February.
As you can see, using social media to enhance his political comments just ruffles feathers further. We all know controversy attracts people like moth to flame. Yet, Real Time continues to enjoy Emmy prestige and a solid viewer base.
I know a free trip to SoCal is nice, but no one who has actual integrity should ever accept an invitation onto Maher's show ever again. But literally, they should cancel the fuck out of Bill Maher, who remains a vestige of a different time when average, haughty assholes failed upward with no consequences. The man's failure is long overdue.
Cut him loose and see if the discourse suffers at all. Yiannopoulos appeared on the show it was actually his debut. Maher then publicly expressed a desire to have him back on in the future.
So that's neat. In a September episode of "Real Time," Maher, noted that it was "controversial" to say "being fat is a bad thing" and commented on the idea of "fat acceptance": "We shouldn't taunt people about it Ask literally any fat person. We are reminded of it all the time. Maher has a long history of being highly critical of religion and, in recent years, of Islam in particular. The "Real Time" host and actor Ben Affleck got into a heated debate that quickly turned into a shouting match over the nature of Islam.
Affleck shot back, "Hold on — are you the person who officially understands the codified doctrine of Islam? Maher's abhorrence of Trump became shockingly clear in September when he made a joke about an assassination attempt on the then-presidential candidate, referencing Ronald Reagan attempted assassin, John Hinckley Jr.
If this race is even the week before the election, somebody is going to have to go out there … Why do you think they let Hinckley out? Was a major supporter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry during the presidential election. Though he traditionally supports Democrats, he threw his support behind Green Party candidate Ralph Nader Bill played Bob on an episode of Roseanne Ten years before the sitcom began, he played a character named Bob in the movie D.
Cab , when he was an up-and-coming comedian. Is a cousin of comedian Stubby Kaye. Was good friends with Steve Allen. Holds the record for most Emmy Award nominations without a win: 40 as of Bill's paternal grandparents were William Aloysius Maher, Sr. Is a staunch political supporter of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Was a friend of Alan Thicke and Hugh Hefner. Bill graduated from Cornell University with degrees in English and History in , shortly before fellow broadcaster Keith Olbermann , who graduated in The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough. That's why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn't know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton 's.
He's more like one of us. I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn't go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart.
So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time. We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2, miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it! I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad's room with his friend.
This kid finds a gun, the gun accidentally goes off and kills his friend. Only in America is the villain in this commercial not guns or bad parenting, but pot. Kids, they're not easy, but there has to be some penalty for sex. Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security -- hey, how about we privatize privacy!
Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can't all marry Liza Minnelli. I'm not even sure that they [ Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert ] are getting at the truth. I mean, just because you're on the side of the liberals doesn't make it true. People are lazy.
And I'm talking about media people too. So they're very insecure about what's the right answer, and if someone with confidence gives an answer, and it seems right and people are applauding, they all flock to it. It's a sad state of affairs when the people who are supposed to be separating truth from fiction themselves don't know what it is. It's like having a bad teacher in school. If the teacher doesn't know, then the kids can't know.
And if the media isn't up to their job in delivering the news then the people are not going to be well informed.
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