Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 2/5/21

[Rhiannon12866]

Monologue: Pass the Corona

Bill recaps the top stories of the week, including Super Bowl LV, Donald Trump's second impeachment and the GOP's identity crisis.




Jimmy Kimmel

The "Jimmy Kimmel Live" host joins Bill to talk sports, their shared love for Las Vegas, and commiserate over Covid-19's effect on live audiences.




New Rule: America's Mass Delusion

It's fun to laugh at QAnon, but if you accord religious faith the kind of exalted respect we do here in America, you’ve already lost the argument that mass delusion is bad.




Here's a "bootleg" version of the show which includes the panel discussion with journalist/author Charlotte Alter and podcast host Matt Welch (15:12), and Bill's weekly "funny bit," "I Don't Know It for a Fact..." (31:28) It won't last long, as usual:

[SheltieLover]

1. I sure agree with him on mass delusion!

TY, Rhiannon!

[Rhiannon12866]

2. And the humor of Jimmy Kimmel was a nice change from his usual controversial guests!

[SheltieLover]

3. 👍

[Lord Ludd]

4. Jimmy K. is my go-to latenight monologist

IMO the best of the bunch.

[SunSeeker]

5. Kimmel and New Rules were great, but his panel was an annoying libertarian whine fest.

And again Maher whined about his solar project at his house, claiming he has "waited 1,083 days for solar" approval. He doesn't explain what his project entails. Everyone I know with solar, including me, were able to get solar installed within days, so his weird "solar shack" that he mentions may have something to do with his troubles (he gives no further details). He loves bashing regulations and California’s government. It's almost always an unfair cheapshot, excempt in the one instance he cited tonight of San Francisco's decision to rename its schools, even the one named after Lincoln.

[Jetheels]

6. I'm not sure I can watch him anymore after he hosted the Kellyanne Conway infomercial for trump

the other week.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Great show!

Thanks for posting, Rhiannon!

[cp]

8. Good explanation of link between seditionists and fundies

And it's pathetic.
By the way (and not unrelated) I've wanted to see removal of tax exemption for religious groups all my life. Go ahead and tax the grifters.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. I thought so too, he did a good job with that.

And I sure agree about the tax exemptions - not to mention that these gatherings that are exempted from the prohibitions of "social gatherings" have become superspreader events, affect the elderly disproportionately.