Bill Maher thinks that he is the smartest man in any room. While the rest of know that is far from the truth, it doesn’t stop Maher from thinking it. So many of us are not fans of him, including celebrities like Marc Maron.
Maron is the kind of comedian who is not afraid to tell people how he really feels. Recently, he’s been making some great points about other comedians. In an interview with Pod Save America, Maron criticized Netflix for leaning into comedians like Dave Chapelle, whose transphobic statements have been heavily criticized by the trans community. “Fascism is good for business. Netflix will just, you know, co-opt anybody that can take that algorithm. I used to do a joke about it—Netflix can become ‘Reichflix’ very quickly.“
He said that Netflix allowed Chappelle to still have a platform there because they realized his transphobia didn’t effect their bottom line. “When they had pushback from the trans community about Chappelle, they realized after several days that that community was not going to affect their bottom line at all. And they cut ‘em loose. That is how fascism works in business.”
But then Maron went on to talk about Maher and his need to say whatever he has to to be relevant. “I always had a problem with his tone, and it happens with some of the other boomers, there’s this desperate chasing of relevance that changes someone’s mind in terms of how they approach what they do and also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate…,” Maron said.
“He’s got good joke writers who know how to write for his tone, but I can’t see past the desperation and what he’s willing to do to stay in the conversation.” And that’s the issue with men like Maher. You never know what they believe. They’ll say whatever they can to be talked about and it leads to them being a shell of a person.
In the past, Maher has hinted that there are some things about Donald Trump he agrees with and Maron called him out on his WTF podcast. “Are you going to be like Bill Maher, you know, ‘I’m going to agree with some of the things that Trump is doing,’” Maron said. “It’s like, dude, you’re a b****.”
Men like Bill Maher think they’re better than the rest of us. That’s how they make their money and while they may think they’re above it, I am sure that hearing what Marc Maron has to say about you doesn’t feel great. And good.
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