Explaining Jokes to Idiots: Oscars Edition | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and for our final rule tonight it's time for another edition of one of our favorite departments here on real time explaining jokes to idiots whereas the public service i break down jokes for the humor impaired not that i have anyone particular in mind [Applause] now i know we're all sick of talking about the slap but i'm sorry one more thing needs to be said comedians have been under attack for quite some time and i need to stick up for my tribe this war on jokes must end so tonight let's zapruda film this thing once and for all and explain jokes to idiots [Applause] now at the oscars chris rock came out to present a boring award and first did what he is supposed to do get some laughs during what we comics call crowd work [Laughter] denzel and javier bardem each got spritzed and then chris made what in the business is known as a some is like some other joke he said to jada smith jada can't wait for g.i jane 2. we're recalling the late 90s movie starring demi moore that's it that's the joke you remind me of some other beautiful buzz-cutted movie star it wasn't an alopecia joke any more than the one about the chicken crossing the road is about bird flu not an insult although insult humor is also a staple of comedy and in fact an example of insulting someone's looks was on display that night when regina hall said we've been dealing with coed for two years it's been really hard on people and amy schumer said yeah just look at timothy chalamet and they cut to j.k simmons [Applause] who made a face a lot like the one jada would make later on but that's where it ended it's called being a good sport especially when you're a rich celebrity let the common people take the piss out of you for one stinking minute and importantly chris's joke was received as funny as evidenced by the audience and will smith laughing [Music] and this is the moment where we got to see a live-action real-time encapsulation of how cancel culture works look at what happens next jada shoots her husband a look let's slow the tape down to capture this moment there [Applause] back and to the left back and to the left back and to the left [Applause] before this moment will is laughing because he hasn't yet found out that his original genuine reaction is wrong and that he should conform [Applause] to a different view and he's the one who's being manly i've seen the same syndrome happen in comedy clubs woke hecklers who literally have to wait for the laughter to die down before they yell that's not funny this war on jokes must end will smith didn't get kicked out of the oscars for going ike turner on chris but kevin hart got kicked out of hosting it for a joke who are these people who say cancel culture isn't a real thing just among comedians who've gotten fired and lost gigs for exercising their freedom of expression the toll is high gilbert godfried and kathy griffin were tasteless so what that's why we like them comedians are the ones testing where the line is we can't always be perfect any more than tom brady will never throw an interception dave chappelle lost distribution for his documentary and sarah silverman was fired from a film over an old sketch where she wore blackface to make fun of racism roseanne lost the tv show she created with her name on it over tweets that were very offensive but not at all clear roseanne knew them to be she is crazy and i say that as a friend all comedians are a little crazy and you need crazy on that wall will smith wasn't pulled off stage but comedian nemesh patel was literally pulled off stage during a performance at columbia for a joke about how hard it is to be gay and black not an anti-gay joke mind you a pro-gay joke but one of the event organizers walked on stage and said i don't think you're entitled to certain jokes you're making well a sense of entitlement certainly is a big part of the problem here but not on the part of the comedian [Applause] and that's the thing the people who can't take a joke now aren't old ladies in the bible belt they're gen z at elite colleges where comedy goes to die kids used to go to college and lose their virginity now they go to lose their sense of humor vice recently interviewed college bookers who revealed that before a comedian even takes the stage they're asked to edit out anything from their act that may cause offense leaving a world where more and more topics are off limits and soon there'll be nothing left to joke about except airline food and starbucks getting your name wrong judd apatow has an awesome new documentary coming here to hbo about george carlin owner of the most famous 180 in comedy history when he turned his back on a lucrative career in nightclubs in order to let his hair down and be himself in front of a younger crowd who welcomed irreverence in 1970 george said i got to go to colleges i belong with people who are open and will let me be myself an experiment oh george it's a good thing you're dead because today the seven words you can't say on tv or jada can't wait for g.i jane too for all those who are constantly demanding an apology for jokes maybe it's you who should apologize to us for all the great jokes that we never got to hear the brilliant thoughts that were never uttered those are the invisible scars of cancel culture let's have a moment of silence for that and a spot in the in memoriam package [Applause] [Music] [Applause] for all the viable jokes that could have lived but were aborted because a voice in someone's head said are you sure you want to risk saying that that's self-censorship the worst kind of all but you will get none of that on my new hbo special it's called adulting and it premieres in this time slot a week from tonight as the kids say it's fire you

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Keywords: David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, Recessional, The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch, Nancy MacLean, historian, Duke University, the New York Times, bestselling book, Democracy in Chains, The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, David Leonhardt, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, daily newsletter, The Morning

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Length: 9min 40sec (580 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 08 2022

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[u/yickth]

“Good thing you’re dead.” George would’ve loved that joke