What This Comedian Said Will Shock You - Bill Maher

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By Bill Maher

  • Release Date: 2024-05-21
  • Genre: Political Science
Score: 4
4
From 101 Ratings

Description

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever—a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture.

Some of the smartest commentary about what’s happening in America is coming from a comedian—this comedian being Bill Maher. If you want to understand what’s wrong with this country, it turns out that one of the best informed and most thought-provoking analysts is this very funny pothead.

The book was inspired by the “editorial” Bill delivers at the end of each episode of Real Time. These editorials are direct-to-camera sermons about culture, politics, and what’s happening in the world. To put this book together, Maher reviewed more than a decade of his editorials, rewriting, reimagining, and updating them, and adding new material to speak exactly to the moment we’re in. Free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, the generations, cancel culture, the parties, the media, show biz, romance, health—Maher covers it all. The result is a hugely entertaining work of commentary about American culture in the tradition of Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and H. L. Mencken.

Reviews

  • What this comedian said will shock you

    3
    By Joanabake
    Most of the material in the book was part of Bill’s rant at the end of his shows so there wasn’t much new. And his caustic wit can get negative and tiresome. At the same time, I love how bright he is and how so much of his thinking I agree with. Even when I disagree I like listening to him. So I recommend it
  • A great read!

    5
    By Cart10001
    Bill Mahr at his best!! These are so powerful, I remember hearing them on the show before reading them!! I liked the chapter heading !😊