Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule – Learn How to Take a Joke (HBO)

and finally new rule we can give up teaching geography grammar and math those are pretty hard but americans have got to learn how to take a joke a few months ago we introduced a segment called explaining jokes to idiots and i'd like to bring it back tonight for the benefit of the spike tv network which last night aired its guys choice awards and censored a joke delivered by clint eastwood but we were able to obtain the footage of the joke that was too intense for america to hear watch your monitors dwayne the rock johnson isn't the first athlete who's gone into acting there's also jim brown and caitlyn somebody all right so we didn't get the footage but that is exactly the line that they cut why is caitlyn the new c word we can't even say it in a joke and this was on a male network that thinks of itself as macho but you know guys just because you have balls doesn't mean you have balls so you know what is so worrisome about this new brand of censorship is it doesn't care if something is actually offensive that joke was not an insult not in any way was it a remark that demeans caitlyn's journey or would make her adam's apple grow back it's just certain words that set people off this is what jerry seinfeld was complaining about last week when he said college audiences just want to use these words that's racist that's sexist that's prejudice they don't even know what they're talking about an opinion echoed by chris rock who said he stopped playing colleges because of their unwillingness to offend anybody and larry the cable guy concurs he said it really is a shame that nobody can handle comedy anymore you know when chris rock jerry seinfeld and larry the cable guy say you have a stick up your ass you don't have to wait for the x-rays to come back that's right a black a jew and a redneck walk onto a college campus and they all can't wait to leave one undergrad from san diego actually wrote jerry an open letter on the huffington post to help him jerry seinfeld better understand how comedy works now i sure wouldn't want to be judged by what i wrote at 20 but stupid though i was in 1976 i wouldn't have presumed to lecture george carlin on comedy though i do i i sure wish george was around today to write a letter back to this kid as only he could but since he can't allow me dear you little i'm sure you're busy with your new letter explaining astrophysics to stephen hawking and giving jump shot pointers to steph curry but try to get a clue in the same letter this kid cited amy schumer as a comic who's edgy but without indulging in harmful stereotypes okay but what about her line i used to date hispanic guys but now i prefer consensual now i love that joke because no matter what trump says i don't think of latino men as rapists it's just funny because it's exaggerating the fact that latinos like almost all men except white guys are more aggressive when they hit on women which lots of which which lots of chicks like so pre-fuck you on that one see the pc police aren't saying you can't make jokes you just can't make them about a protected species jokes about men yes gay men no kim kim kardashian's asked yes her stepfather's tits no if someone on the internet expresses the wrong views about gays women or jews they're subject to endless shaming unless they're muslim in which case all that intolerance is a cultural difference which we just have to tolerate because of course it's a religion of peace there's a piece of you there there's a piece of you there and now let me explain why that joke is perfectly okay because everyone gets made fun of for something and it's never a hundred percent fair if i make a and the french surrendered joke everyone laughs even though the french haven't surrendered in every war in fact mostly in just the one but it was kind of an important one so they have to own it if i make a supermodel through upper food joke everyone laughs and certainly not all supermodels are bulimics but more than plumbers if i make a joke about how all asians are bad drivers well that one's true no it's not but a little bit so we laugh as we should when someone makes a muslims blow up joke which they have to own because they do it more than anybody else with the possible exception of the u.s military

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

Views: 3,352,035

Rating: 4.8507833 out of 5

Keywords: Bernie Sanders (U.S. Senator), 2016 U.S. Presidential Candidate, Ann Coulter (Author), ¡Adios, America! (Book), The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole, Luis Gutiérrez (U.S. Representative), Matt Lewis (Journalist), The Daily Caller, TheWeek.com, Joy Reid (Reporter), MSNBC (TV Network)

Id: ZNJyDyCocGQ

Length: 6min 16sec (376 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 19 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/anzababa]

Muslim here - totally agree with everything he is saying. But I just have to point out literally none of my friends care about "blowing shit up" jokes... infact we probably make them more than most of non-muslims do

He makes it sound as if we consider it along the lines of blasphemy.

I get the point he's trying to make - but he was just using a bad example

[u/87612446F7]

have you learned about vaccines yet bill

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I'm so glad this was said.

[u/purpleblossom]

That joke wasn't even offensive ffs.

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[u/AbbathOcculta]

It's like we live in the fucking 1950's again or something. Jesus.