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Good now someone bully Bill Maher. into never coming back at all lol
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banned from Starbucks posted:Good now someone bully Bill Maher. Maher is a spite golem, trying to bully him into not restarting his show would just inevitably result in him crying about cancel culture and how society is too woke.
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Timby posted:Maher is a spite golem, trying to bully him into not restarting his show would just inevitably result in him crying about cancel culture and how society is too woke. He's going to do that anyway.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Good now someone bully Bill Maher. With a baseball bat
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Maher's in the same category for me as Andy Dick. I know they suck now and have for a while, but I don't know if they were ever good. I don't know how they got famous in the first place. If they're somwhow surviving on goodwill from earlier in their career, what the hell did they do to get that goodwill?
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He's been riding the "I was the original cancel culture victim" thing since forever which I guess resonates with whatever audience he has left. His show is prob cheap enough for HBO to just rubber stamp his renewal every year and not really give a poo poo.
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Snowman_McK posted:I don't know how they got famous in the first place. If they're somwhow surviving on goodwill from earlier in their career, what the hell did they do to get that goodwill? He appeared many times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Back then an appearance on that show was monumental. Imagine if everyone in the US got a text message to check something out right now in 2023. It'd be similar to that. His show in the 1990s was a new hybrid that brought a lot of different famous people together and had a constant string of big star appearances. He also got a lot of credit for ridiculing all of GWBs nonsense and the wars in the early 2000s. So much so that they killed off his show shortly after 9/11. With all that said, the show has taken a very big ratings hit in recent years as Maher has slowly alienated more and more of his audience over many issues. A lot of his talking points would fit comfortably on Fox News but he roasts Trump constantly and also insults MSNBCs partisanship as well.
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Zogo posted:He appeared many times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Back then an appearance on that show was monumental. Imagine if everyone in the US got a text message to check something out right now in 2023. It'd be similar to that. Ah, so it's Dave Chappelle all over again. At one point, he took an actual stance on something that had a serious professional cost and concluded that anything he did was now brave and against the grain. I remember the moment I fully grasped what a piece of poo poo he was was when he called trans rights a pet issue for some. He said they should drop it until after the election, offering to drop his own pet issue (marijuana legalisation) in return, which was just such an amazing misunderstanding of both issues and electoral politics all at once.
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Sep 18, 2023 06:00
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It wasn't really an actual stance, just edge lord bullshit. His show got pulled because he said the 9/11 terrorists were actually pretty brave to go through with the attacks.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It wasn't really an actual stance, just edge lord bullshit. His show got pulled because he said the 9/11 terrorists were actually pretty brave to go through with the attacks.
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Sep 18, 2023 06:29
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Which was a Bill Hicks joke back in the 90s.
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Sep 18, 2023 06:46
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Andy Dick was good in Newsradio and not much else.
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whydirt posted:Andy Dick was good in Newsradio and not much else. He was pretty good on The Ben Stiller Show, but yeah, that and Newsradio are about it.
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Maher is the Peter Principle at work in comedy. He was an okay standup who got a panel show on Comedy Central back when every standup got a gig doing something, he was already getting constantly owned on that show, but he parlayed that into being taken semi seriously as a political voice. I just keep thinking of how at one point Bill Murray called Chevy Chase a “medium talent” and honestly Maher deserves that much more.
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Chevy Chase wasn't a medium talent; he is a genuinely good physical comedian and an absolutely smashingly great straight man. The problem was that he was playing against John Belushi who is both of those, and way more.
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Bullying works again! https://x.com/billmaher/status/1703801159096713583?s=20 
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Chevy Chase wasn't a medium talent; he is a genuinely good physical comedian and an absolutely smashingly great straight man. Well yeah Chevy is legitimately quite talented, just also a total rear end in a top hat. Maher has always been best suited for 15 minutes at the comedy club before the main act comes on.
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Bill Maher is the epitome of a smarmy little twerp
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Bill Maher peaked playing an unlikeable dweeb in House II: The Second Story
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Bill Maher peaked playing an unlikeable dweeb in House II: The Second Story It’s definitely his best work and I feel confident saying so despite not remembering much of the movie at all.
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Drunkboxer posted:It’s definitely his best work and I feel confident saying so despite not remembering much of the movie at all. It has a Catterpuppy! Literally all I remember about House 2. The original is much more fun
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joylessdivision posted:It has a Catterpuppy! Literally all I remember about House 2. The original is much more fun It has a blue collar worker becoming/revealing himself to be a swashbuckling daredevil, complete with pirate saber and all. I saw Brazil around the same time I saw House II, they made me quite excited for the service industry.
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Bill Maher peaked in ‘91. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7CVcPvnV1E
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https://www.deadline.com/2023/09/writers-strike-more-talks-set-1235551840/
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...! posted:Take everything written by Deadline with a grain of salt https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/studios-best-final-offer-wga-response-expected-sunday-1234908378/ You were saying???
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Anonymous sources in the strikes have almost always been on the studio side so yeah, grain of salt is definitely still in effect. Negotiations have obviously been productive or I would assume WGA already would've walked away. Also weird that the studios seem to be in a rush to get this passed after the strike has gone on for 145 days. Wish I could figure out why that is. Totally unrelated but Oct 1 is the start of the quarter and also Apple and Disney's fiscal year.
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RevKrule posted:Anonymous sources in the strikes have almost always been on the studio side so yeah, grain of salt is definitely still in effect. Negotiations have obviously been productive or I would assume WGA already would've walked away. If I had to bet money on a reason the studios are rushing to the table it's that. Money talks, that's the only thing that motivates them and having to explain poo poo to shareholders is something executives actually dread. Especially after they spread their slates around as much as they could if they keep the strike going they are going to have to explain why exactly they have nothing out in early 2024 (or whenever).
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Still breaking but it appears the WGA have reached a deal. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/negotiations-update-tentative-agreement I'd like to see what terms exactly they settled on. I'd rather the strike go on longer than they take a poo poo deal.
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It sounds very much like not a poo poo deal but yeah, i'm willing to wait to hear some deets before passing judgement.
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RevKrule posted:It sounds very much like not a poo poo deal but yeah, i'm willing to wait to hear some deets before passing judgement. Are there any rumors about the contract on the grapevine?
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I mean, this line in the letter from wga leadership is what I'm basing it off ofquote:We can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional—with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership.
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https://twitter.com/sej_singh/status/1706137309920252169?s=46 lol
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The bill hasn’t actually been signed into law and would have kicked in only in January. I doubt it had any impact. But it’ll be a nice thing for the next strike.
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Vegetable posted:The bill hasn’t actually been signed into law and would have kicked in only in January. I doubt it had any impact. But it’ll be a nice thing for the next strike. The original projection for the strike was lasting into 2024 so it absolutely would have had an impact since it would've meant giving the striking union members a huge boost in January. VoodooXT fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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Details available now https://twitter.com/WGAWest/status/1706823193561067770
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RevKrule posted:Details available now I am not an expert but this seems pretty loving good. I’m very pleasantly surprised they managed to get the services to budge on streaming viewership numbers.
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Pirate Jet posted:I’m very pleasantly surprised they managed to get the services to budge on streaming viewership numbers. It doesn't really sound like they did. At best it sounds like it might give them a little extra information when negotiating the next contract, but being unable to share those numbers with their membership seems to take a lot of the benefit away. Meanwhile, the only viewership-based pay scheme they managed to negotiate seems to be a relatively small bonus for writing something so popular that 1 out of every 5 subscribers watches it. 
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They're making it sounds likes it's a completely done deal but doesn't the membership still have to vote on it?
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