The monologue was the only clip I could find, and it took me almost two hours to even find a full show video. I bring that to you with brief notes on who is in it, and what the discussion was about, and the starting point in minutes and seconds so you can find them. You can tell roughly how long each is by looking at the start time of the segment and the start time of the next segment. There is CC. (when there isn’t, it’s because there are no words.)
Monologue – “The Incredible Sulk” “President Shrugemoji” Good ones. You know, it used to be bad form for nominees to go to the conventions. We may end up going back to that.
3:42 Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on Trump not leaving
13:36 Panel – Paul Begala, Meghan Daum on voting by mail and progressive lack of enthusiasm
34:06 Satire magazine “Better Homes and Kindergartens”
35:32 Chris Evans – His new website “A Starting Point” – for people who know absolutely nothing about politics. I provide the link, but haven’t really looked at it. Bill used the term “bipartisan,” which, sadly, makes me wonder about its factuality – a sad comment on America today.
45:26 New Rules: Some people should be out of work. “Goldilocks Bread.” A British man lost his penis and is growing a new one on his arm. Ellen. If even dead people hate you… (satire eulogy for Trump* – with no sound, because there’s nothing good to say. Sound starts again at approx 52:00)
Sorry – but at least it’s all here somehow, and hopefully won’t be too hard to navigate.
UPDATE
Sunday morning – I see they’ve taken the full one down. However, short videos are now available for three of the five<
Monologue
Evans
New Rule
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Never been much of a Bill Maher fan – but I admire your dedication and perseverance in finding it.
Thanks. There were some good one-liners (“I haven’t spent so much time in my back yard since I had to grow my own weed” – “(I was so desperate for company that) I called up Westboro Baptist Church and begged them to picket” in the monologue. The satire magazine is short and snappy, even if it is low hanging fruit. And the silent eulogy is surprisingly funny. The little bit of sound/speech at the end effectively puts a lid on it.
W/watch ltr.
Thanks, Joanne for posting.
Hey, we appreciate all that you to post Bill’s show.
I recorded it last night when I was watching my local Padre’s baseball game. Will watch it later after tonight’s ballgame.
Thanks Joanne
Thanks. How did the Padres do? Or shouldn’t I ask?
Thanks JD. I watched them on YouTube late last night.
I did see that they had gone up – and noted that they hadn’t gone up until about four hours after I posted – but the full one was still available then, and I had no idea it would go away until it did.
They won the game on Friday night, but lost on Saturday 3 to 2. Still enjoy watching them.
Thanks Joanne
Thanks for looking so hard for Bill Maher’s clips, Joanne. I couldn’t view the whole show because I needed to sign on for that, but the other three made up for that.
Bill’s monologues and New Rules were good stand-up comedian stuff like they always are, and are usually the ones I most enjoy, but I was pleasantly surprised by his guest Chris Evans. I have this personal bias against actors where I think they’re not too smart and on (for me) the wrong side of the political aisle but that may be true for those of my own generation and older.
Chris Evans comes across as an intelligent and compassionate man with an interest in politics than makes him want to make it better. Mark Ruffalo, an earlier guest of Bill, is made of the same cloth. So Republicans may be right after all, it is a left-wing Hollywood clique? I rather think of them as a progressive bunch with their heads screwed on right.
I tend to to think of actors as progressive for the most part – there are exceptions to everything – because the classically trained ones mostly are. By classically trained I mean those who cut there teeth on Shakespeare, and Moliere – I do’t know what playwrights that would be in the Netherlands, but I could add Racine and Ibsen also. And Chekhov And many others. That is an entirely different world from performing in Joanie loves Chachi or Magnum PI As far as a Hollywood clique of progressives – at least since the group that came over from Europe, not together, but about the same time -I couldn’t say.I’m sure everyone knows each other, but that doesn;t necessarily agree on everything. Those who stay in New York to do “legitimate” theater may be cliquish, but I don’t know that for a fact.
(Fun fact: One of Marlon Brando’s first movie roles – possibly THE first – was in Shakespeare – Marc Antony opposite IIRC John Gielgud in Julius Caesar. It may have been Ralph Richardson – they both may have been in it — the rest of the cast list looked like a roster of who’s who in Shakespeare in 1950. This is from memory, but I don’t believe Olivier was in it. But otherwise – wow. Many people could call, and have called, Brando a ut job, but no one could call him a right wing nut job.)