{"id":1716275,"date":"2022-10-29T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T15:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1716275"},"modified":"2022-10-29T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:20:33","slug":"stay-the-f-home-bill-maher-unloads-on-the-problematic-costume-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stay-the-f-home-bill-maher-unloads-on-the-problematic-costume-police\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stay The F*** Home\u2019: Bill Maher Unloads On The \u2018Problematic\u2019 Costume Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fstay-the-f-home-bill-maher-unloads-on-the-problematic-costume-police%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=1716275&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--><p>Comedian Bill Maher unloaded on the \u201cscolds\u201d he blamed for taking all the fun out of Halloween, arguing that people needed a holiday where they were allowed \u2014 and even expected \u2014 to be a little irreverent and throw the \u201crules\u201d out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Maher proceeded to go through a list of \u201cproblematic\u201d Halloween costumes compiled by BuzzFeed, which he renamed \u201cBuzzKill,\u201d and explained that \u201cproblematic\u201d had always been the entire point of the night of freedom that came before All Saints\u2019 Day \u2014 which he said had been overtaken in recent years by \u201cAll Scolds Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m so tired of a handful of emotional hemophiliacs on social media telling us what we can\u2019t do on Halloween. And by the way, please put drugs in my candy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllScoldsDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllScoldsDay<\/a>\ud83c\udf83 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/if9O8HQZTU\">pic.twitter.com\/if9O8HQZTU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmaher\/status\/1586221459491368960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m so tired of a handful of emotional hemophiliacs on social media telling us what we can\u2019t do on Halloween. And by the way, please put drugs in my candy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllScoldsDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllScoldsDay<\/a>\ud83c\udf83 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/if9O8HQZTU\">pic.twitter.com\/if9O8HQZTU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmaher\/status\/1586221459491368960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew rule!\u201d Maher began. \u201cIf Halloween is too much for your fragile sensibilities and you\u2019re worried about seeing someone wearing something that\u2019s on the forbidden costume list \u2026 just stay the f*** home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher went on to mock the idea that there were lists of irreverent costumes that people were warned not to wear \u2026 \u201clest a night of irreverent dress-up spiral into something that resembles fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalloween is supposed to be outrageous! It\u2019s a festival of the sacrilegious, a celebration of the grotesque,\u201d Maher continued, adding, \u201cYet every year there\u2019s a new list of offensive things we shouldn\u2019t do on the day that\u2019s all about being offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than canceling the fun out of Halloween, Maher said he\u2019d prefer to cancel November 1st: \u201cAll Scolds\u2019 Day\u201d \u2014 which he said was \u201cwhen the good people announce which costumes the bad people wore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reading from \u201cBuzzKill\u2019s\u201d list, Maher began with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer \u2014 \u201ce-Bay has already banned selling it because otherwise it would be impossible to find a blond wig and aviator glasses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so tired of a handful of emotional hemophiliacs on social media telling us what we can\u2019t do on Halloween. And by the way, please put drugs in my candy,\u201d Maher added.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to read a number of other \u201cverboten\u201d costumes from the list: Queen Elizabeth II (\u201ctoo soon\u201d), \u201ccharacters outside of your race,\u201d even Elvis. \u201cYou can\u2019t dress up as Elvis?\u201d Maher asked. \u201cThat\u2019s an entire industry!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave fun kids, and let your imaginations soar,\u201d he mocked, adding, \u201cCan I tell you something, kids? These are *all* great costumes. Listen to me, I\u2019m your last connection to fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor f***\u2019s sake, it\u2019s Halloween \u2014 which is not just a fun holiday, it\u2019s a necessary psychic release,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Maher concluded the segment by revealing his own costume \u2014 a Generation Z scold, complete with multiple masks and face shield, the leash for his emotional support animal, a \u201cF*** the Patriarchy\u201d t-shirt, and the stick he said was meant to \u201cgo up his ass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Bill Maher unloaded on the \u201cscolds\u201d he blamed for taking all the fun out of Halloween, arguing that people needed a holiday where they were allowed \u2014 and even expected \u2014 to be a little irreverent and throw the \u201crules\u201d out the window. Maher proceeded to go through a list of \u201cproblematic\u201d Halloween costumes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Stay The F*** Home\u2019: Bill Maher Unloads On The \u2018Problematic\u2019 Costume Police","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Stay The F*** Home\u2019: Bill Maher Unloads On The \u2018Problematic\u2019 Costume Police","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}