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Bill Maher Questions Why #MeToo Movement Didn’t Hit Music Industry

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Invoice Maher is questioning why it looks as if the music business was by no means impacted by the #MeToo Motion till now, with Sean “Diddy” Combs’ latest arrest.

Because the #MeToo motion went viral in 2017, tons of of highly effective folks have been accused of sexual offenses, with some Hollywood notables being convicted, together with disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

However on Friday’s episode of Actual Time with Invoice Maher, whereas talking with creator Fran Lebowitz, the comic introduced up Combs’ federal expenses and its influence on the music business as a complete.

“I’ve been asking this query for seven years, since 2017 when the #MeToo factor occurred,” Maher mentioned. “Why… why not the music business? I imply, they went after NPR fairly dangerous. They bought like, 4, 5 guys from NPR, like outdated guys who posted, like, an outrageous limerick on the doorway of the bookshop.”

“The music business is that this open cesspool of misogyny, and albeit, rape and sexual harassment, and in some way, the angel of dying has flown over them,” the host added earlier than asking, “Why do you suppose that’s?”

Lebowitz responded, “I believe as a result of it is a capitalist nation, and the music business is rather more profitable than NPR. That might be my guess.”

“A whole lot of the tales about everyone beginning with #MeToo, I’d heard a number of these tales for a few years,” she continued. “So, Puffy, this was not precisely a state secret. Nevertheless it was a state secret apparently to them.”

Along with going through federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses, Combs has additionally been hit with quite a few lawsuits from women and men, together with ex Cassie Ventura, who accused him of rape and abuse in a criticism filed towards the rapper final November. Extra not too long ago, Thalia Graves alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that Combs drugged and raped her in 2001.

The rapper is presently in jail awaiting trial after being denied bail after pleading not responsible to intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses. His arrest got here months after the FBI raided his Los Angeles and Miami houses.

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Bill Maher Is Amazed By Taylor Swift’s Influence on 2024 Election

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Invoice Maher finally received to the “large information this week” on the most recent episode of HBO’s Actual Time — Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.

The host appeared amazed on the pop famous person’s affect on the 2024 presidential election, because it was beforehand reported that her endorsement drove greater than 400,000 individuals to Vote.gov, a voter registration useful resource that refers individuals to their native state election web sites.

“Taylor Swift lastly advised individuals who to vote for,” Maher mentioned. “After all, instantly the response from the opposite aspect was, ‘Celeb endorsements don’t matter.’ Individuals are at all times so behind on this stuff, you already know. That’s the standard knowledge for a very long time, many movie star endorsements don’t work… not on this case — I imply, simply the quantity of people that had been instantly registered from that tweet.”

The comic continued, “And I’m sorry, however we dwell in Starfucker, America. George Clooney is the one who received Biden to step down. I wrote the very same editorial he did, and so many different individuals did too. No one cared. As quickly as George Clooney mentioned it, he’s gotta go.”

Maher was later making an attempt to wrap his head round a “stunning” statistic relating to the demographic of Swift’s fanbase, based on a Might ballot carried out by Redfield & Wilton Methods for Newsweek.

“This was probably the most stunning a part of it, was who she influenced,” he mentioned. “Swift, it says, would have extra affect over male voters — 27 % of male voters mentioned they’d be extra prone to vote for a candidate endorsed by Swift. I will need to have this phenomenon gauged all incorrect. I assumed it might be ladies.”

Following the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris earlier this week, Swift took to her social media to provide the vp her extremely influential endorsement.

“I’m voting for [Kamala Harris] as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I imagine want a warrior to champion them,” the Grammy-winning singer wrote partially. “I believe she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I imagine we are able to accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos. I used to be so heartened and impressed by her number of working mate [Tim Walz], who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a lady’s proper to her personal physique for many years.”

Friday’s episode of Actual Time featured friends Alex Karp, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Al Franken.

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Bill Maher Mocks CNN for Harris-Walz Interview and Questions Asked

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Lower than 24 hours after CNN aired the primary joint interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Invoice Maher had some ideas on the questions Dana Bash requested the duo.

The host kicked off the newest episode of Actual Time by requested the viewers in the event that they watched the Thursday night time sit-down interview with the Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, and Tim Walz, “her emotional assist” vice chairman.

“It was a bit odd,” Maher quipped. “He was simply sitting there for a really very long time with out saying something. He was simply nodding whereas she did all of the speaking. The ladies’s focus group mentioned he have to be an exquisite husband. However actually, it simply stored going and he was saying nothing. It was like watching Jeopardy! when one of many gamers can’t work the buzzer.”

The comic famous that previous to the CNN interview, the media had been “livid” that Harris hadn’t achieved any in depth interviews with nationwide retailers since launching her marketing campaign for the White Home after Joe Biden stepped down in July.

Nevertheless, Maher mentioned, “Now she lastly does and never a single query about abortion, Ukraine, the homeless, the Opioid disaster, the nationwide debt.”

“After which they surprise why the children get their information from TikTok,” the host joked.

Maher additionally thinks main information retailers “at all times ask the stupidest query on the earth: ‘What would you do on day one?’ You already know, it’s not that form of a fucking job, OK? It’s simply not that form of a job.”

“I might only one time love to listen to any individual go, ‘You already know what I’d do? I’d unpack some packing containers and I’d dress for the inaugural celebration like anyone else,’” the comic added.

Harris and Walz’s first televised interview collectively on CNN drew 6.31 million viewers, in keeping with remaining same-day rankings from Nielsen. The Democratic presidential did talk about a few of her plans for serving to middle-class Individuals, in addition to dismissed a query about Donald Trump’s race feedback, telling Bash, “Standard, drained playbook.”

On Actual Time, Maher additionally famous that Trump “after all needed to shit tweet whereas he was watching” the CNN interview, calling it “boring.”

Nevertheless, the comic mentioned he “desires some boring,” including, “It’s Harris-Walz, not Deadpool and Wolverine.”

The visitors featured on the newest episode of Maher’s HBO present have been Rep. Nancy Pelosi, John McWhorter and Peter Hamby.

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Bill Maher Predicts When Biden Will Drop Out, Considers Candidates

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Invoice Maher has gone from bemoaning President Joe Biden persevering with to run for reelection in 2024 to insisting that he shall be changed, declaring on the finish of his “New Guidelines” section on Friday’s Actual Time that “Biden is toast.”

“Cease fucking round,” he stated. “The problem with president Biden isn’t if, it’s who: Who’s going to switch him as a result of he isn’t going to be the Democrats’ candidate for president in 2024. The one factor I do know for positive about America is that this: It’s run by imply ladies. Within the press and in politics and in life. And once they scent blood within the water, the lust to complete off a weak individual won’t ever be denied.”

And he supplied his prediction for when the president would drop out however argued the shock of a brand new candidate wouldn’t final lengthy.

“My choose within the workplace pool for when he offers it up is Aug. 9, the fiftieth anniversary of when Nixon did for, after all, very totally different causes,” Maher stated. “Sure, changing a president as his social gathering’s candidate will seem to be an enormous deal — for about 3 days. After which we’ll all be over it. … America goes to do that.”

He then ran by the professionals and cons, with a couple of jokes thrown in, after all, of the potential Democratic politicians who might change Biden, together with Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. He additionally rattled off plenty of Democratic governors together with Maryland’s Wes Moore, Kentucky’s Andy Beshear and Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro.

“Nobody is aware of who these individuals are, and that’s good,” Maher stated. “We’d like some new characters on this sitcom we name a rustic. People like new. These guys, all you must know is that they’re moderates, they’re underneath 100 years outdated, they usually have a “D” subsequent to their names.”

He argued that regardless of goals of a Michelle Obama candidacy she’s “off dwelling her finest life,” and “we’re not going to get a famous person on this draft.”

“We’re on the airport and at this level, we simply should be positive we get final rental automotive,” he stated. “One thing fairly protected, comparatively clear and never [Donald] Trump. If there isn’t a useless Lady Scout within the trunk, we’re good to go.”

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Maher, who has lengthy criticized Biden’s choice to run for re-election, calling him “Ruth Bader Biden,” spent his monologue bemoaning Biden staying within the race amid extra calls from Democrats, members of the media and influential Hollywood donors for him drop out.

“It’s all about Joe,” Maher stated on the prime of the present earlier than joking, “It’s tougher to get this man to tug out than Nick Cannon,” referencing the star’s many kids with a number of ladies.

Maher additionally took purpose at Biden’s Thursday night time press convention, calling it the “worst potential factor that might occur,” in that the president did “precisely nicely sufficient in order that Democrats do not know what to do subsequent.”

Maher puzzled aloud, “Are we actually going to be doing this for the subsequent few months or God is aware of how lengthy? It’s like a horror film you watch by your fingers — you realize one thing dangerous’s going to occur. You simply don’t know when.”

Turning to particular moments within the presser, Maher took purpose at Biden misidentifying Harris as “Vice President Trump.”

“Democrats will tolerate psychological decline however not misgendering,” Maher joked earlier than recognizing one thing in widespread with each Harris and Trump.

“How do you confuse Kamala Harris with Donald Trump? One among them sees Biden as the one impediment to the White Home and the opposite — oh, I see,” he stated.

Maher stated the battle between Biden and Trump quantities to a face-off between a “man who can barely speak vs. a man who gained’t shut the fuck up.”

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Jiminy Glick Takes Over ‘Real Time’ to Ask Bill Maher Tough Questions

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The roles have been reversed on the newest episode of Actual Time, with Martin Brief‘s legendary character Jiminy Glick popping out of retirement to ask Invoice Maher the powerful questions.

Sometimes, the host will interview his company one-on-one initially of the present, however on Friday, Maher determined to turn into the interviewee to speak about his new guide, What This Comic Stated Will Shock You.

“For years I’ve interviewed authors out right here in our opening one-on-one interview spot, however now I discover myself within the place of being the writer of a guide on the bestseller checklist,” he stated earlier than introducing former discuss present host Glick. “I can’t interview myself. I wanted somebody to interview me, and we’re so fortunate tonight. We’ve got a grasp, maybe the grasp of the artwork type.”

As soon as the duo sat down, Glick quipped, “That is going to be so thrilling for me! Often because I’m used to interviewing celebrities so this can be a good change of tempo.” 

The following 10 minutes of the present consisted of Maher being dropped at tears from laughter and Glick asking questions, however then continuing to chop the comic off mid-answering.

“I need to get to this guide and I like this guide, I like this guide,” Glick stated. “I haven’t learn it. Effectively, I’ve learn it cowl and canopy however nothing inside. However phrase will get again that it’s pleasant.”

A few of Glick’s questions (or playful insults as some may say) all through the phase included, “Your guide is a triumph! What do you owe your success to, low expectations?” / “Aside from missing one, what do you suppose your comedy legacy could be?” / “Are there any subjects for you which are off limits, aside from foreplay?”

Throughout some moments, Maher’s prolonged solutions seemingly put the interviewer to sleep.

“It’s wonderful to write down a guide, sure it’s,” Glick stated after being woken up. “And to beat a subject as a result of not many individuals [do]. Subsequent, you’ll in all probability get a cope with Blockbuster Video. And also you’re stuffed with opinions. I like that ’trigger I’ve all the time liked Invoice Maher’s opinion, you already know, like your opinions about COVID, the entire COVID factor. I like getting my medical recommendation from a membership act.”

As Maher continued to snigger, Glick wrapped up the dialog, including, “Your guide is totally the best guide I’ve ever not learn. And you already know, thanks, as a result of I’ve all the time felt — and I imply this, sincere to God, I’m not going to cry — that the boring and tedious company make me a greater interviewer so thanks.”

The opposite company featured on Friday’s present have been former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

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