What This Comedian Said Will Shock You (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever—a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture.
Some of the smartest commentary about what’s happening in America is coming from a comedian—this comedian being Bill Maher. If you want to understand what’s wrong with this country, it turns out that one of the best informed and most thought-provoking analysts is this very funny pothead.
The book was inspired by the “editorial” Bill delivers at the end of each episode of Real Time. These editorials are direct-to-camera sermons about culture, politics, and what’s happening in the world. To put this book together, Maher reviewed more than a decade of his editorials, rewriting, reimagining, and updating them, and adding new material to speak exactly to the moment we’re in. Free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, the generations, cancel culture, the parties, the media, show biz, romance, health—Maher covers it all. The result is a hugely entertaining work of commentary about American culture in the tradition of Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and H. L. Mencken.
Customer Reviews
“Thank you, God”…
…and I say that with as much apathism as Bill Maher would. But it’s just SO REFRESHING to hear someone be RATIONAL on these crazy things social movements get locked into. Like this idea that if you identify per a gender, then you really ARE that gender, and physical sex is a dirty issue offensive to speak…that is taken to ridiculous extreme when a tall, muscle-bound male states identity with women, then competes against them in sports, sweeping the medals. That reveals a fundamental fallacy of the transgender paradigm. And another: My need is to be the other actual SEX, transsexual, not “transgender.” It can’t be really done, so I’m miserable about that—but I’m told by doctors and the LGBTQISAK lexicon that it’s offensive to even SAY I identify with a SEX. So…I don’t even get to EXIST as myself because it’s offensive to say what my needs are in this gender-positive, sex-negative society. Others are to be accepted as they say, but not if you’re transsexual? Bill talks on MANY subjects, but just his rationality on things like these is REFRESHING. Hearing reason in the face of crazy…Oh!… Thank you, Bill.