Have you ever seen Real Time with Bill Maher? What's incredible about Bill Maher is that he is SO SMUG and his jokes are REALLY CORNY but he somehow manages to hold my attention and make me laugh. I give him time I'll never get back, and I never feel good about that.
I did it again last night by watching Religulous. This is his documentary where he's in love with himself (like always) and he guffaws (?) at religious people and how religulous they are. Like, creationists are crazy, yeah. And some Christians hate gay people. Right. And everybody's weird and the Vatican is rich. There was a nice part about how the Jesus story would make a good Hollywood movie: guy fathers a son to a virgin, the son is also him and the son goes on a suicide mission, etc. There's a nice part where Bill Maher talks to a dude who plays Jesus at a Christian theme park. I don't know why people would want to watch a bleeding dude with a cross on his back stumble along a paved lane while they sit on cement "boulders" but so maybe I have more in common with Bill Maher than I think.
What I wanted was a liberal documentary to make me feel better and complacent since I've been a little uneased because Maine's governor does not seem like a good guy. What I got was Bill Maher: Smugulous! It was pretty good, though.
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man, i thought i was so sophisticated for wanting to watch politically incorrect when i was a kid. but i really didn't understand it, i just thought i should. that's bill maher to me.
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