{"id":2024647,"date":"2023-09-07T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-takes-shot-at-fellow-late-night-hosts-casts-doubt-on-future-of-their-shows\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:32:43","slug":"bill-maher-takes-shot-at-fellow-late-night-hosts-casts-doubt-on-future-of-their-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-takes-shot-at-fellow-late-night-hosts-casts-doubt-on-future-of-their-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher questions future of late-night shows, throws shade at fellow hosts."},"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\">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%2Fbill-maher-takes-shot-at-fellow-late-night-hosts-casts-doubt-on-future-of-their-shows%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=2024647&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--><h2>Bill Maher Takes Shot at Fellow Late-Night Hosts, Casts Doubt on Future\u200b of Their Shows<\/h2>\n<p>Bill Maher\u2064 often mixes moments of political \u2063muddle-headedness \u200cwith moments of \u200dsound thinking and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portrait-of-the-artist-as-an-old-bore\/\" title=\"Portrait of the Artist as an Old Bore\">genuine insight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-knocks-colbert-late-night-hosts-pandering-liberal-fans-guys-dont-have-takes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, the\u2063 \u201cReal Time \u200dwith Bill Maher\u201d host recently \u200dtreated viewers to the latter type of moment.<\/p>\n<p>During his \u201cClub Random\u201d podcast \u2064on Sunday, Maher\u200d dismissed late-night hosts such as Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel,\u200b and Jimmy Fallon as both\u2064 unoriginal and politically predictable.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-maher-torches-dem-congresswoman-calls-old-forces-retreat-air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maher<\/a> and his \u200bguest,\u2064 the infinitely more muddleheaded comedian Jim Gaffigan, discussed late-night television\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Gaffigan, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-takes-shot-at-fellow-late-night-hosts-casts-doubt-on-future-of-their-shows\/\" title=\"Bill Maher questions future of late-night shows, throws shade at fellow hosts.\">regularly \u200bparrots establishment-media talking points<\/a>. On Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast in late \u2062July, for instance, Gaffigan dismissed what he called the \u201cslim \u2064likelihood\u201d that U.S. intelligence agencies\u2062 had anything to do with the \u2064events at the U.S. Capitol \u2064on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joe Rogan destroying Jim Gaffigan.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QXBaAJ14sB\">pic.twitter.com\/QXBaAJ14sB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRHLofficial\/status\/1685643614188126208?\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday with Maher,\u2062 Gaffigan\u2064 predicted that the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hollywood-doesnt-want-know-no-1-streaming-show-writers-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> writers\u2019 strike probably will \u201ckill the late-night\u2064 show\u2063 that \u200cwe grew up with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher disagreed, citing\u2063 problems\u2062 inherent in the format.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is, again, no\u200b knock on the guys who do it, but I don\u2019t know how this art form has survived up until now,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n<p>Maher added that \u2062his own HBO show, due to the format and absence of commercials, \u200dfeels \u201cmore edgy\u201d and \u201cmore unpredictable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the current late-night shows \u2062face complications and competition \u2062their predecessors \u2062never knew.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, Maher said, \u201cyou can watch \u200danything \u2014 you get\u2063 into bed, you \u200bcan watch\u200c Netflix, you can\u200d watch HBO, you can watch YouTube, you can watch\u2064 anything that was \u200cever made, or do video \u200bgames.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you wanted to watch this late-night stuff, \u200cwouldn\u2019t you watch it sometime when you could zip through \u200cthe commercials and\u200d just see the stuff \u2062you\u2063 like? It \u2062just\u200d seems so \u2064anachronistic.\u200d I don\u2019t know how it survives until \u200cnow,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gaffigan\u00a0replied\u200d that viewers \u201cwant\u200d to \u200chear Colbert\u2019s take about the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher pounced on this \u2063palpable absurdity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s \u2062not \u2062a \u2062take. \u2062Those guys\u2062 don\u2019t have takes,\u201d Maher said.\u200c \u201cI have takes.\u2062 I\u2063 have a\u200d take on things. What they do is say \u200dexactly what a liberal audience wants them to say about that.\u2062 That\u2019s\u2062 not a take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a man \u2062with so many alternately foolish and thoughtful \u201ctakes,\u201d Maher nailed this one.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the 2022 midterm\u2063 elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-maher-goes-off-rails-claims-democracy-will-end-election-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maher<\/a> channeled his\u200c inner Democratic\u2063 Party hack when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/good-riddance-country-music-fans-trash-cmt-for-touting-gun-control-campaign-promise-boycott\/\" title=\"\u2018Good Riddance\u2019: Country Music Fans Trash CMT For Touting Gun Control Campaign, Promise Boycott\">urged viewers<\/a> to vote\u200c blue in order to save democracy.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand,\u200d Maher has often mocked\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-maher-goes-scorched-earth-cancel-culture-gives-cojones-awards-culture-warriors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wokeness<\/a>. In February, he even compared\u2064 the modern woke mob to Mao\u2019s Red Guards, who terrorized China during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-maher-compares-woke-mob-enforcers-maos-cultural-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Maher had \u2063a point when he described his show as\u2062 \u201cmore \u200bunpredictable.\u201d One never knows what \u2062to expect from him.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one always knows \u200cwhat to \u2063expect from the likes\u2063 of Colbert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jimmy-kimmel-pals-skewered-new-project-group-therapy-libs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kimmel<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-jimmy-fallon-viciously-mocked-twitter-users-cringe-song-new-covid-variant-goes-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fallon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it is difficult to decide which of the three hosts has \u2064more thoroughly prostituted himself \u200dto the \u2062establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reflection \u2014 and in the spirit of late-night\u2063 award-show skits \u2014 the\u2062 Galactic Toady Award\u200b goes to \u200cColbert.<\/p>\n<p>Who can forget Colbert\u2019s nauseating November\u200c 2020 interview with \u2062former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-teases-interview-man-claims-sex-obama-1999\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a>? The beginning \u200dof the interview \u2064alone \u200cbelongs in the Toady Hall\u2063 of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we just take a moment? Can I just \u2014 and I want \u2064to talk \u2014 I just\u2064 want to take\u200d a moment to \u2014 to \u2014 to drink you in \u2014 for just a moment,\u201d the grinning, starry-eyed, slobbering Colbert actually said to the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert, of course, meant the comment as a dig against then-President \u200cDonald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to get used to looking at a president again,\u201d Colbert added. Obama could not even feign \u2063embarrassment for dignity\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>A liberal perspective is one thing. But sucking up to the\u2062 powerful in the \u2063most shameless way imaginable?<\/p>\n<p>Colbert did not even \u200cwait a\u200b whole year before outdoing \u200chimself.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the establishment shill subjected viewers to the most cringe-inducing recurring skit in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kiss-frontman-exposes-the-false-equivalencies-of-transing-kids-and-comedic-cross-dressing\/\" title=\"Kiss singer debunks comparison between transgender youth and comedic cross-dressing.\">entertainment history<\/a>: \u201cThe Vax Scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The skit had various ghastly iterations, all of which\u200c involved dancing syringes,\u2064 most of them animated.<\/p>\n<p>On\u200d one occasion, for instance, \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/stephen-colbert-covid-2nd-time-3-weeks-just-thanked-vaccine-efficacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colbert<\/a> \u2063 sat at his desk\u200b while the animated syringes danced and sang propagandistic lyrics\u200c to the tune of the \u201cWilliam Tell\u2064 Overture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Get a shot, get a \u2063shot, get a vaccine\u2063 shot<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Get a shot, \u200cget a shot, get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-state-blues-gets-worse\/\" title=\"Blue State Blues Gets Worse\">vaccine shot<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>With entertainment options multiplying, one\u2063 can only guess how much longer late-night audiences will keep returning for such drivel.<\/p>\n<p>Small wonder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gonna-pray-gonna-shoot-audience-cheers-lt-gov-winsome-sears-owns-bill-mahers-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maher<\/a> got this one \u200bright.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-maher-takes-shot-fellow-late-night-hosts-casts-doubt-future-shows\/\">Bill \u200dMaher Takes Shot at Fellow\u2064 Late-Night Hosts, Casts \u200bDoubt on Future of Their Shows<\/a> appeared first\u2063 on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher, known for his blend of political confusion and astute observations, showcased his insightful side on his podcast. Fox News reported that Maher criticized late-night hosts like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon, highlighting a rare moment of clarity from the &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":2024648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024647","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\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}