Marjorie Taylor Greene is “one mood swing away from humping parked cars.” Matt Gaetz is “an idiot,” “a frat boy” and “exactly who you think he is.” U.S. “We should listen to him!”Īt the same time, the comedian reserves most of his criticism for the other cult. “Obama said, ‘This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically ‘woke’ and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly,’” Maher says, reciting the quote word for word, as if it’s been seared into his brain. Jim Clyburn has voiced opposition to calls for “defunding the police” and former President Barack Obama has spoken out against “woke” intransigence. Maher believes Democrats who vouch for such positions ultimately cost themselves winnable elections, and the comedian is quick to point out that he’s not alone in this view: U.S. If enacted (it wasn’t) the ordinance would have essentially legalized most misdemeanor crimes committed to meet an “immediate and basic need” like purchasing food or paying rent. Pointing to examples that illuminate “the culture of woke,” he talks about the movement to “defund the police” and, more specifically, an ordinance briefly considered by the Seattle City Council last fall. He can find humor in just about every dour situation, but at the same time, it’s clear he knows just how serious this moment and this chaos truly is. Maher punctuates statements like this with a wry chuckle that is one-part bemused, two-parts doleful. “We have the cult of QAnon, and we also have the cult of ‘woke.’ I think QAnon is more dangerous, but I think woke is pretty dangerous, especially since it’s gonna get QAnon elected.” “Unfortunately, we live in a country right now where we have not one cult but two,” he says. By his own admission, he’s “never been a team player.” Maher also has plenty to say about the current state of the Democratic Party, the party to which he most closely aligns but never hesitates to malign. “And that issue is voting - they’re against it.” “They’re a one-issue party now,” he says of Republicans. As such, the 65-year-old comedian has plenty to say about the pandemic and the state of the Republican Party, and his Irving audience will hear all of it. Maher’s father was a newsman, so reporting and commenting on current affairs is in his blood. So there will be a few comments, but mostly, that’s the past, and I don’t like to live in the past.” "I just don’t want to dwell on the past I don’t think the audience wants to live in the past. He’s gone we did manage to slay the orange beast at least temporarily. But I don’t want to give him the oxygen and the credit. “He’s the shark that swam out to sea, but it’s not like he’s not gonna come back to shore and start eating people again. “I can’t not mention Trump a few times,” Maher says over the phone. This was especially true for Maher when the orange-hued “asshole” who is the butt of many of his jokes was no longer quite as relevant. If a devastating virus forces you to take a yearlong hiatus, you have to create a lot of material from scratch. Usually, when you’re doing stand-up, Maher explains, you’re doing it all the time what you do one night in Dallas can be tweaked and enhanced for next weekend in Denver. It was a whole new act, which I spent months and months working on.” The last time I was on stage, Trump was president. “It was surreal,” he says of the first two shows back, which took place in Florida. The show is part of a tour that runs through November, and Maher’s stop at the Toyota Music Factory is just his fourth stand-up set since February 2020. In fact, that’s what Maher did this Fourth of July: He awoke after a night of socializing (“I’m more of a night person”) and got to work honing the stand-up routine he’ll deliver to a crowd in Irving on Sunday, July 11. “How long do I have to be doing this for people to know that yes, I do go there and yes, I do say that,” Maher says. These audiences, while still largely liberal, don’t “ooh” and “aah” when Maher delivers a crass joke on a sensitive topic, which he considers a form of “virtue signaling.” And Bill Maher can’t stand virtue signaling. But the veteran comedian has a special place in his heart for comedy crowds in conservative states. Not their politicians, necessarily, and certainly not laws like the heartbeat bill (“You can have an abortion as long as you know you don’t need one” he says.
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