• CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah I'm looking at that now like what??? I guess it's referring to a Cum Town bit about Bill Maher using the N-word? Funny where the author places blame in this whole affair.

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Say what you will about that Cum Town bit, but I think the article should at least mention Nick was doing it to rip on Maher because HE SAID THE N-WORD ON HIS OWN HBO SHOW. It's a fairly important detail.

      • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah one of the funniest things about all these democrat whiners is that they go on bill maher (like neera tanden has been on multiple times) who is just as offensive as anyone they have a problem with, whether it's joe rogan or "dirtbag left" people.

    • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Someone posted the clip on the old sub once -- Nick Mullen started the episode by singing "Bill Maher the n****r guy" to the tune of the Bill Nye theme, and the other hosts riffed on it. It was pretty disgusting, but it definitely didn't happen on Bill Maher's show.

      EDIT: this is it, CW: slurs of course

        • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Bill Maher wasn't really making fun of racism, as long as we're pointing things out. The joke was just that he's not tough enough to be outdoors, and he used a slur to make it.

          This was in the context of Maher and Ben Sasse commiserating about adults dressing up for Halloween and Sasse suggesting that Maher come out to Nebraska, because they don't do that out there apparently.

          I watched this happen, I gotta share just how bad it was. Especially in the context of this author fumbling the facts this badly.

    • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      One of my favorite cum town bits. Tho the Cuomo one is of course perfection.

      Afterall it would be weird for a centrist lib like bill Maher to have the president of the DSA on his show