Maybe I am just turning into curmudgeon, (like Doug), but I could barely stand watching Bill Maher last night.
The stupid, sexist, redundant, nonsense he spews, more times than not these days, is getting on my nerves. Not to mention his guests are often boring. ( except for last week where I discovered that Craig Kilborn is actually kind of smart). I wanted to put a sock in the mouth of every panelist there, two socks in Maher’s mouth. Roseann who????
The only person on that show who had any sense was Deepak Chopra, and he came on as an aside. The only sensible thing said was that “The Secret” is a bunch of crap.
It is not worth watching a full hour of him in order to hear one or two good gotcha’s. My friends are more entertaining and often more informed.
You got it.
For those familiar with my list.
— Lost picture of me and my fake high older boyfriend Bill Maher. -
You just aren’t funny anymore hon.
I must cross Bill off the list of my “fake, famous, older, boyfriends”.
Billy Joel and Paul Simon are still on the list though.
Maybe I’m just annoyed that I am in Maryland doing interviews while everyone else is having fun.
Maybe not, maybe I’m just getting old.
Either way, my interview this morning went well.
Cheers.
Agree with Maher at times is an idiot and The Secret being a bunch of crap.
He deserves to be crossed of your list.
I’m sorry you can’t so somewhere close to tropical like some of us can. Don’t feel bad I’m broke and can’t go that far. Which means I stay and in this country.
My wife never cared for him.
I agree there are times lately when he had become a redundant boor.Who gets to replace him on the list?
{JACOB raises hand}
I fit all but the famous part. Wasn’t it “fake, famous, usually drunk or stoned older boyfriends”?
Congrats on the interview going well.
Bill doesn’t deserve you as a fake younger girlfriend.
Glad your interview went well, it’s like one down five to go.
It’s your fate, due to your extreme particularities, to always be the younger girlfriend of somebody. He is getting tedious, tiresome and a hundred other words all beginning in T and that is just for starters. Glad you dumped him from the list.
An hour, is an hour of your life.
I need to find a way to get famous.
and age faster
I think that Bill Maher has suffered from not having as many restrictions placed on him by the execs above him. On Politically Incorrect he was fighting the Standards and Practices people all the way and you could tell by watching. He wasn’t as notorious about it as Howard Stern but there was definitely an undercurrent.
Anyways wasn’t he rated one of the 100 unsexiest men?
The material and the presentation is old, the one or two good guests and the one or two good points he makes, are overshadowed by the poor often mum and inarticulate guests and his continuing to make the same pointless points over and over.
Every dog has its day.
And I was going to run out and get The Secret so I could have anything that I wanted without having to do anything. I have actually read of people who are signing contracts to buy things, don’t know where the money is going to come from but have faith. Scary.
More than scary. Cult like. I am going to read it because I can’t imagine what it says other than “believe” but I will read it in book stores.
My crush on Bill Maher ended one day last year rather suddenly. He just wasn’t that funny anymore
I am glad that you still have your crushes on Paul Simon and Billy Joel. They need you
Glad your interview went well.
I haven’t watched Bill Maher since he was on ABC, and that’s been years ago. I don’t have HBO so I couldn’t watch him now if I wanted to.
Sometimes I’ll hear of something intelligent from him, but it’s been a while since that’s happened too.
Fake older boyfriends are such hassles.
G: I’m a little late I know you’ve come and gone and always agree with me, except maybe about suicide girls.:)
Jacob: I’ve said it before, your wife is a fine women.
Coyotemike: No he doesn’t.
John: yea that was the easy one.
My “extreme peculiarities” ??????
Nope, never to waste and hour.Since when are you johnnym?
wombat: you are my infamous wombeditor.
Bill Maher has suffered from lack of any new thinking over the last few years. That and he still has some kind of problem with woman. I thought I could fix it but sadly I can’t .…so the boot.
jake: That dog is barking his last bark.
Pia: People are just not very smart. This is no scarier than Tm Cruise and Scientology.
Chris: They are a hassle aren’t they. Too bad. When my next fake, married older boyfriend gets dumped I’ll call ya.
Here’s hoping they wish to have you join their program — and that you wish to join it. Missed the whole Maher phenomenon. Being a TV phobe will do that. But (sympathy for the ex) it’s gotta be tough to keep it hot year after year after year.
Didn’t Billy Joel just marry some twentysomething hottie? That wasn’t you, was it …?
OC: Actually the interview yesterday was not one of the grad school interviews, it was a follow-up for an paid internship I want this summer in DC. I was pretty sure I had it prior to the follow-up, I’m fairly certain now but will not know for certain for maybe a couple of weeks.
The grad school stuff starts next week and goes into the following week with random free days in between. Kind of s waste of my time — those days in between.
Not sure who Billy Joel married. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me.
When you start treating your real boyfriends better you won’t have to have fake older boyfriends. Treat me right goes both ways. Now you’re hating on the flaming liberal men. Houston I think we have a problem.
Haven’t watched Maher is years. I agree he needs to be off the list.
What list? Is it posted somewhere?
I’ve just never found him all that funny in the first place. Honestly, I thought it was more due to me than him, but I’m glad to see it might have been him.
Welcome to the club, and I agree. The show has gone from great to “why do I still watch this.” I think David Kuo should get a do-over because he was interrupted every time he was about to make a great point and Roseanne Barr isn’t panel material.
Randy: I’ll make note of that.
mojo: More power to you. Really he used to be funnier now he is sounds like a broken record.
Doug: I am coming up in the world when you start agreeing with me Doug.
Yeah.
When I get famous enough, can I be a new fake boyfriend?
Unless you are twenty years older than me you are disqualified.
Good, glad you dumped him. He is useless despite the fact he is an alumni here.
dammit. Shot down by my own youth.
Can’t disagree.
He used to make a couple of points, now he makes the same points. I used to watch him religiously, after the season where the Democrats lost the big election the whole show started to wear out its welcome around here. I think he needs another venue maybe a break to go out and put his money where his mouth is.
I used to love Dennis Miller because he had a vocabulary and used intelligence to come at topics.
Lately though, his ultra-conservative mindset is so off-putting that even if he does make a funny, it generally makes me want to run screaming into the hills.
This week’s show had Maher expressing his disgust that service women in Iraq must protect themselves from male US soldiers. What was his take? That there were just too many guys way too far from available “pussy”. That was his word. The asshole. Like men commit rape because they don’t have a girlfriend.
I long ago concluded the guy was full of it.
dbk:
I am boy missing that boy at all.
Is Bill Maher the “Dennis Miller” of the Likud, now?
Tom Bombadil seems to believe so:
http://tom-bombadil.blogspot.com/2007/02/bill-maher-dennis-miller-of-likud-party.html