Bill Maher, Islam, Berkeley

Cal students don't want him to deliver commencement next month. Will he? Won't he? Who knows.

He continues to welcome Muslim guests to his show for conversations. Last night's guest tried taking him to task.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152489172777297&set=vb.62507427296&type=2&theater


NYT meanwhile weighs in:

Rest of the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/opinion/berkeley-students-shouldnt-censor-bill-maher.html

 

Ironic that a bastion of political discourse like Berkeley would make a move like this.

Just more bullshit millennial entitlement. Everyone's opinions count, unless they differ from ours.

 

Agree completely.

Hopefully no deranged hippie will break into the school president's house with a machete to protest.

 

Maher is consistent about one thing: the most extreme elements of religion, regardless of what denomination, are dangerous to the public good.

 

Bill Maher- talk about someone who peaked in the 80s.

 

You're confusing him with Dennis Miller.

 

Yeah, Maher's HBO show and his standup act are great if you like politically pointed humor (or humor-tinged politics).

Take Bill Maher and throttle back the mean-spiritedness by 20 percent and you've got Jon Stewart ... and I mean that as a compliment.

 

What, that Monday Night Football career wasn't his peak?

 

As our Muslim friends prove again today...

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-islamic-state-executes-scores-of-fellow-sunni-muslims-20141101-story.html

 

Maher's peak was definitely 90's. Politically Incorrect began its Comedy Central run in the early 90s and even the first few years on ABC were solid. Even if it declined at the end of the ABC run, that was 2000/2001 or so, putting his decline in certainly not the 80s.
Unless you think his peak was starring in the hit movie 'Pizza Man'
Miller absolutely peaked in the 80s. Once he left Weekend Update, that was it for him.

 

Frankly, he's always struck me as the sort who defines "extreme elements" as "actual believers" ...

 

Maher was never funny.

Miller was funny in the old days and still has flashes of great humor.