{"id":1427178,"date":"2022-04-09T22:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T02:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427178"},"modified":"2022-04-09T22:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T02:44:39","slug":"this-war-on-jokes-must-end-bill-maher-reacts-to-the-slap-with-pro-comedy-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-war-on-jokes-must-end-bill-maher-reacts-to-the-slap-with-pro-comedy-tirade\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This War On Jokes Must End\u2019: Bill Maher Reacts To \u2018The Slap\u2019 With Pro-Comedy Tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-war-on-jokes-must-end-bill-maher-reacts-to-the-slap-with-pro-comedy-tirade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-621335892.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>In reaction to fallout from Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, television host Bill Maher contended that \u201cthis war on jokes must end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cComedians have been under attack for some time,\u201d Maher argued during an episode of \u201cReal Time\u201d on Friday night. He said that Chris Rock\u2019s \u201cG.I. Jane 2\u201d joke \u201cwasn\u2019t an alopecia joke any more than the chicken crossing the road is about bird flu.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maher noted that Smith\u2019s initial reaction to the joke was laughter before Jada Pinkett Smith appeared visibly upset. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t found out yet that his original general reaction was wrong and that he should conform to a different view,\u201d Maher said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maher extended his rant to college students and their tendency to favor censorship. \u201cThe people who can\u2019t take a joke now aren\u2019t old ladies in the Bible Belt. They\u2019re Gen Z at elite colleges. \u2026 Kids used to go to college and lose their virginity. Now they go to lose their sense of humor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s a good thing George Carlin is dead because today, the seven words you can\u2019t say on TV are \u201cJada, can\u2019t wait for \u201cG.I. Jane 2.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1oHU9A3eIF\">pic.twitter.com\/1oHU9A3eIF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmaher\/status\/1512637849148923905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cSoon there will be nothing to joke about but airline food and Starbucks getting your name wrong,\u201d Maher added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maher \u2014 a progressive and self-identified atheist \u2014 frequently criticizes the authoritarian wing of the Left. He responded to Whoopi Goldberg\u2019s recent anti-Semitic <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-on-whoopi-goldberg-controversy-we-have-got-to-get-past-this-endless-unforgiving-zero-tolerance-mindset\"><span>remark<\/span><\/a><span> about the Holocaust by arguing that people need to get past trying to cancel others who say the wrong thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have got to get past this endless, unforgiving, zero tolerance mindset bent on punishing and disappearing anyone caught saying the wrong thing. The right response to speech you don\u2019t like is more speech, not the lazy, cowardly response of canceling people,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThis is a big country with lots of people who don\u2019t think like you. We all only need to agree on free speech itself. That\u2019s my religious belief. That\u2019s the timeless principle I live by. I don\u2019t like what Whoopi said about race, she didn\u2019t like what I said about COVID, so what? The real essence of karma, by the way, is non attachment, letting s*** go, it\u2019s very zen. Oh, and by the way, no one knows what that means either.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/sunday-special\"><span>conversation<\/span><\/a><span> with Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, Maher <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-maher-predicts-trump-winning-in-2024-if-democrats-dont-shift-on-key-issue\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> he could see former President Donald Trump winning in 2024 if Democrats continue to botch kitchen-table issues \u2014 especially education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI could see that Trump could actually win that election, easily,\u201d Maher said. \u201cEspecially if the Democrats keep doing the stuff they are doing to piss people off, like in schools, with all that kind of stuff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy theme has been that, yes, both parties have a lot to answer for. Again, I told you where my politics are in general, okay. I\u2019m not coming over to this side. I do think that Republicans are more dangerous,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut what pisses people off with Democrats is so much closer to home, it\u2019s so much up close and personal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maher added that Democrats\u2019 impeachment efforts against Trump with regard to a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not compelling to most voters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI mean the Ukraine issue that he was impeached over,\u201d Maher said. \u201cYes, I think it was an impeachable offense, absolutely. But to most people, it\u2019s like Ukraine? \u2026 It\u2019s very far away, doesn\u2019t really influence my life a lot?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut when you have my kid coming home from school and saying, \u2018Mommy, am I a racist?\u2019 \u2018You\u2019re five. You just learned the word. What are you \u2014 ?\u2019 That\u2019s what I worry about with the Democrats,\u201d the host asserted. \u201cAnd in that scenario, Trump could win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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