Here is Mr. Maher's response when his 'comedy' is compared to Rush.

http://gma.yahoo.com/four-questions-bill-maher-090047377--abc-news.html

Pure BS doublestandard.

Excuse me....a minor correction...Maher is BS

The first time I caught a few minutes of his "show" a few years back was the same day I cancelled my HBO subscription.

Not a problem for me. I agree with him in the context of the interview.

I can't stand that [bleep] grin of his or his sarcastic arrogant humor. He isn't running a comedy show...he's running a political show. Just seeing that bastid irritates the heck out of me.

If all decent people would drop HBO, they would can him. Rush at least apologized. Libs usually never apologize. I wish people from both sides would debate the issues and the BEST way to handle them instead of refusing to budge or listen to the other side. Dems are usually worse than Reps, but it does run both ways.

I ousted Rush many, many years ago.
Don't see the need for anyone/either of this type in my life.

Coincidence??


ML

His arse is jealous of all the crap that comes out of his mouth.

I would like to run into him in a dark alley.

When my kid brother ran a pathology lab, two of his staff were Polish engineers � brilliant fellows, both.

Polack jokes were every-day fare there, enjoyed by everyone except when one guy told 'em with obvious animosity and contempt for Poles.

That element is unmistakable, deadly, seldom really funny or even witty, too frequently neither perceived nor addressed. It should be identified and denounced by honorable people. But it's often that very element that makes derogatory jokes "funny" to some people.

okok - Me first!

I'll bet you all love Dave Miller, right? (pun intended)

So do I, the guy is funny, what makes him funny is that he's a looney tunes right winger, the positions he takes on some things are ridiculous.

Maher is a looney tunes left winger, some of his positions on things are ridiculous.

The common thing they both share is that they are hitting on some degree of factual events, it's their looney and irreverent spin that makes it funny.

They are irreverent about things people take way too seriously.

If you think one is funny and the other isn't you are way too nutted up and biased.

Point well taken.

Nope Maher is just a rude assshole...nothing funny about the man at all. Funny thing is I don't have cable or satellite so I don't have to see any of them

There is a huge difference between comedy and being a completely rude jackass.

You actually hit that one on the head, pointed out an aspect I wasn't thinking about in my prior response.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get beat up pretty badly now, incoming.

I have never heard Miller use the language that I have heard Maher use.

This is what I like to hear.

What would happen then? Would you care to elaborate on what would happen in that dark alley? Too many just change the channel instead of changing the game.

If Maher could bring any wit to bear on any person or situation, he wouldn't have to rely solely on crude language. Even insults can be witty without filth.

Then there's the greater challenge to wit � being complimentary in a witty way without being saccharine, cloying, or smarmy. Maher could never hope to be thus.

(I set this as a life goal when I was sixteen or so. 'Tain't as easy as being nasty, but it's possible. And it's been a "fun" ride, with both satisfaction and rewards, ever since that first day sixty-five years ago!)

Note to self:

Sit at Doctor Howell's feet for as long as possible.... and take notes.....lots and lots of notes....

I would like to own a few sets of bleachers, just so me and a few friends could watch.

... is a given.

Who's Dave Miller? Somebody famous?

Just another thing he does not know about what he speaks.

I haven't watched Maher for any length of time in years. What I do remember of him was that he is just obnoxious. Being obnoxious has nothing to do with being left or right, he's just obnoxious and not funny. I think you'd have to be biased pretty hard left to find the guy funny because taken from an objective viewpoint most of his stuff is pretty uninspired. It's kind of like Ellen Degeneres, it seems like she has a show that launches and tanks about once every six months, then in a few months she's back on in another show and it tanks also repeating the cycle. The talking heads make it out like she's being discriminated against because she's gay when the real reason her shows tank is because she's NOT funny, which is kinda bad for a comedian. If she was actually funny people would watch whether or not she's a lesbian.

Maher is a decidedly third rate comedian who has figured out that since people won't pay to hear his mediocre comedy he needs to spice things up a bit by spewing liberal hatred.

I don't really think Dennis Miller is that funny either, but at least he's not obnoxious.

Well, he's funny to libs. Their point and laugh humor appeals to the clique' mentality. Libs are SOOO superior, they can do that with everybody...

No he is just a POS. I am sure we agree on this point so I won't say excuse me. _ LOL

Hark!

A boob on the tube was just saying that he didn't hold with such language, but wanted to talk generalities based on the first amendment. (Oh, if only they were half as zealous for the second amendment!)

Couldn't bring himself to say "Bill Maher" or "shouldn't've said any of those vile things about women."

I knew before a look confirmed that sho' 'nuff, 'twas a Demonrat.

Any with kin that are dems should take it out on them. They are the ones close by and should be the first to be taken out of the voting cycle.

Smarmy's a good word and the one that captures Maher in a nutshell. You hit that one.

Just took a quick look back � to times when comedians were witty and funny without having to be crude � and we didn't need dubbed-in laugh tracks to tell us when to laugh. Lying around on the floor listening to 'em on the radio was excellent wit training for kids of all ages. True wit serves both boys and men equally well. It doesn't get moldy or toxic with the passing of time.

� Edgar Bergen
� Fibber McGee and Molly
� Victor Borge
� Judy Canova
� Herb Shriner
� Bob Burns
� Lum 'n' Abner
� George Burns & Gracie Allen
� Fanny Brice
� Red Skelton
� Amos 'n' Andy
� Peter Ustinov ("doing" his mother talking to the queen was high comedy that'd bend a brass monkey over with aching ribs)
� Fred Allen
� Jack Benny
� Jimmy Durante

For a long time now, "comedy" has given me the mental image of a couple of just-weaned boys down behind the hog pen, carving four-letter words into the boards, and giggling "Wouldn't Ma have a fit if she seen this?"

About forty, fifty years ago, the Brits set-up outlets for registered addicts to buy their "fixes" � clean stuff at reasonable prices.

But the addicts still went to black-market sources and paid more for sorrier stuff.

The thrill of defying society's opinion of such things was still a major driving force.

Such it is that the more that society comes to tolerate, accept, and approve, the search for the old thrill of defiance continues to push ahead into the offensive, the disgusting, the shocking ("Wouldn't Ma have a fit � ?").

The problem is that Maher mirrors perfectly the sentiments and actual hatreds of a huge segment of our population who sit smugly like him, and like him worship their own sorry intellect.

And pertinent to what another poster said about Dave Miller, no, I ain't heard him use offensive language either.

Birdwatcher

Who?


As to Maher - vile, the end.

Used to enjoy splittin' a gut laughin' at the likes of Carson, Brennan, Cosby, Rickels, Dangerfield, etc (long list of 'em).

Then comedians started to get into "blue" comedy, and my interst dwindeled. Now, it's the exception, rather than the rule, to find a comedian that appeals to my sense of humor.

Sad.