I’m shocked, too — that Bill Maher’s audience took this as well as they did. Kudos to them, because it could have been very uncomfortable reception to the Real Time host. Maher has done a good job of attempting to present a more balanced show than most TV comics these days, so perhaps that’s not as shocking as one might think. Had any of the other late-night struggle-session hosts attempted this, their audiences would have been in full revolt.
And that was the point, as Maher hammers out in his monologue. Dialogue is better than monologue.
Maher took the first twelve minutes of his HBO show last night to give what he called his “book report” on having dinner with Donald Trump. It’s a bit NSFW on language, as always, but parts of this had me laughing out loud — especially when we discover what Trump did with Bill Clinton’s “b***-job room,” as Maher puts…
